Los Tres Ojos
Los Tres Ojos, meaning the Three Eyes, has in spite of its name four ponds. The first pond is of a perfect aquamarine tone, the second is the smallest and its water is sulfurous. The third, and biggest, is fresh water and has strong undercurrents. The most beautiful pond is the fourth pond which resembles the crater of a sleeping volcano. It is a cenote, which means the cave ceiling has collapsed and so the lake is now at the bottom of a shaft with vertical walls and sun is shining in.
The cave visit includes by boat ride across lake two, which was a scary ride, considering that if we fell in we could easily die and get sucked in by the deep currents! But hey, if I came our alive, so can anyone. Then a concrete path leads through the upper chamber to the fourth pond, which in my opinion was the most beautiful of them all. It was surrounded by leaves and the top is opened up in a way which connects it to the sky, making the water sparkly blue. At the same time the opening allows for sunlight to come into the cave, which makes it beautiful scenery. This was my favorite tourist attraction in the
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The sulfurous waters of the first lake, discovered in 1916, are only 20 feet deep.
The second, named La Nevera or "refrigerator" in English drops to 15 degrees centigrade.
The Women's Lake, the third and smallest, is warm and shallow; it was believed that native women would bathe in this lake because it of the fact that it was not deep. Legend also has it that when you visit the place if you are a female and you touch the water you will have twins… we’ll see if that’s true if I ever have kids lol.
A fourth lake, measuring 300 meters deep, is named Los Saramagullones after a species of ducks that inhabits it.
Admission is about DOP 20 for locals, DOP 50 for foreigners. In other words for us coming from abroad it is approximately 1.58 USD. Not bad at all!
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