Tourist attraction
Ik Kil Cenote
Limestone sinkhole reached by carved stone steps, with diving platforms above vine-draped water.
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About this audio guide
This guide to Ik Kil Cenote outside Chichen Itza follows two different groups of people who turned a Maya sacred sinkhole into a performance space: the eighty stonecutters who hand-carved its ninety-one-step staircase, and the elite cliff divers who later used the cenote's rim as a competition platform. It touches the Maya offerings pulled from the water below and the odd logistics of filming an extreme sport inside a limestone shaft. A listening tip: look for the vines trailing down the walls as you finish the staircase.
This audio guide was created using AI.