Adventure Travel: What's Hot Now: Adventures in Mexico at Xplor

Adventure Travel: What's Hot Now These articles that had the largest increase in popularity over the last week Adventures in Mexico at Xplor 7 Jul 2011, 11:00 am Do you know what lies beneath your feet? At Xplor in Mexico's Riviera Maya, there's an entire world of underground adventures including swimming and rafting in underground rivers. Above the earth's crust, there's a network of zip lines that looks like freeways in the sky, and a three-mile track where you can drive an amphibious buggy through the jungle, into caves and on suspension bridges over water. Not sure which to try first? You can do everything, more than once. The daily fee covers everything, from the adventures to the food. Last March a group of scientists wrote in Science journal that they did a study that confirms the dinosaurs died when an asteroid hit Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula 65 million years ago, changing atmospheric conditions. This same asteroid created a unique topography - essentially a mega-sized slab of limestone through which ground water drips creating caverns, or cenotes as they are called here. In this adventure park, you can swim and raft in the cenotes and underground rivers. Our day-long adventure began when we were given a helmet at check-in, because much of the day is spent underground in a vast complex of natural caves with underground rivers. Sixty-five million years ago, when dinosaurs roamed on earth, an asteroid smashed into the Yucatan Peninsula. Rainwater filled the crater's basin and seeped through the limestone slab that covered the peninsula, creating the caverns and underground rivers.) The Xplor adventure park's four main adventures are anchored by a big red "heart" that emits a throbbing sound, so you know you're getting close to the center of the action. From the heart, marked paths through the caves lead you to the four adventures. Staying below the earth's crust, we went swimming in the Stalactite River, then paddled a raft through a different part of the underground river. We had a lot of fun steering an amphibious buggy with big, fat tires, along a three-mile track that led through the jungle, on suspension bridges over water and through caves. Visitors can fly high on two sets of zip lines - one has five lines and the other has six. We loved the zip line that landed in the water at an opening to a cave. Swimming in an Underground River at Xplor, Rivera Maya, Mexico Rafting Adventure in an Underground River at Xplor in Mexico's Riviera Maya Riding an Amphibious Buggy Through Jungle and Caves at Xplor, Riviera Maya, Mexico Going Airborne on Zip Lines at Xplore in Riviera Maya, Mexico All-Inclusive Xplor Adventure Park in Riviera Maya, Mexico More Adventure Travel Experiences in the Riviera Maya and Cancun, Mexico You are receiving this email because you subscribed to this feed at blogtrottr.com. If you no longer wish to receive these emails, you can unsubscribe from this feed.