ATM Caves

We visited the ATM (Actun Tunichil Muknal) caves today. After a bus ride, we hiked for about an hour through the forest and crossed the river three times.


At the entrance to the cave , we put on our helmets and headlamps and waded and swam through the water for an hour to get to the Mayan artifacts.

On the way in we stopped and all turned off our lights so that we were in total darkness. Then the guide told us to make a chain by holding on to the shoulder of the person in front of us and we walked through the pitch black cave.


At the end we found pottery for various foods brought to offer to the gods as well as a few skulls and one complete skeleton of a 16 year old girl.