Volcano of Bats!

Up the road from Calakmul is a Cenote (sinkhole in limestone bedrock) that is filled with an estimated 3 million bats! Every night from about 5pm to 9pm the Cenote erupts into a vortex of bats! There are supposedly only two places in the world where this happens!

Normally this site is free, however, there were a group of scammers at the beginning of the short trail insisting that we needed to pay a 200 peso 'tour' fee because of the pandemic and because it was dark (they said they were there to monitor numbers of tourists, and guide us through the dark). We are almost certain that this was not legit, but we were already there so we paid the 200 peso fee anyway. The site was very interesting, but unfortunately the sun had set during the fee deliberation at the beginning of the trail, so we couldn't see much of the vortex. 😔

I was able to take a couple videos, but I don't think that they do this natural wonder much justice.Read more