Now, the best thing about my recent Mexican experience was going to The Mayan Baths. This is where I spent the last day of the Mayan Calendar. This is where I was potentially spending my last days on earth. And you know what? I was perfectly fine saying good-bye to the world looking at this view.
This place is amazing. If you are lucky enough to get here, to go here, you win. The caves are the brainchild of an extremely creative and inspired man. It’s an underground grotto that has passageways and chest deep pools filled with water from a natural hot spring and it’s overlooking the Mexican countryside. It’s designed so that every year on the Winter Solstice, the sun sets right down the center of the bath’s water filled passageway and can be viewed from the back of the cave’s main dome. Also known as, absolutely stunning, a memory you’ll have forever, an experience you’ve never had before and something to tell people about for the rest of your lives. You know, something like that.
You can also get a massage, have a drink (with a full bar at your disposal) and food (usually cooked with fresh fish caught that morning from fish ponds also located on the property.) Finally, you can cozy up with a toasty bathrobe and towel warmed on a uniquely designed pyramid heater located in the main lobby. Another little plus is they pass out dark glass rectangles when the sun is setting so you can look directly at it without your eyes exploding, nice touch.
Sipping some great tequila, while bathing in perfectly warm water in a candle lit cave while watching a magnificent Mexican sunset will be one of the highlights of your life. I mean, the place has been blessed by Buddhist Monks so you’re bound to feel some magic happening. Good luck trying to find something more amazing. Yeah, good luck.
*These photos were taken at different stages of sunset over different days –