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Cenote Aktun Ha o Car Wash
Freshwater sinkhole with a spacious, shallow cavern once used by locals as an open-air car wash.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Cenote Aktun Ha, known around Tulum as Car Wash, starts with the taxi drivers who used to bring their cabs to its pool for a weekly rinse, long before divers ever looked twice at the water. It follows how that roadside stop became one of the region's earliest windows into cave diving, and what turtles, fish, and a resident crocodile still share with snorkelers today. Listen for the halocline where fresh and salt water meet and bend the light.
This audio guide was created using AI.