Cenote Nic Te Ha

About this audio guide

This guide to Cenote Nicte-Ha, a lily-covered swimming hole north of Tulum, opens with a small mystery: no two price lists agree on what it costs to get in. From there it traces the cenote's name back to a Maya legend of a forbidden romance and the wedding a jealous priest meant to stop. You will hear what the same water lilies floating in front of you meant to Maya rulers centuries before this became a tourist stop.