Canyon del Sumidero

I was lucky enough to go on an awesome boat tour through the Canyon del Sumeidero in Chiapas. We descended about 2000 metres from San Cris and boarded the boat at the entrance to the canyon. The canyon was full of wildlife including crocodiles (possibly made of plastic), monkeys, vultures and a well disguised iguana. These crazy german guys kept screaming and pretending to see some amazing animal but then they would just laugh and give each other high fives. They were funny for about 5 minutes.


Near the far end of the canyon there is a natural rock formation that looks strangely like the facial profile (I though it looked like a native american indian). Even more amazingly, when you approach closer in the boat, you discover that there is a small waterfall actually coming out of the face! Its like the face is crying water into the canyon below. As it cascades down it forms amazing moss covered rock formations that look like some kind of crazy oversized fungi growing out of the canyon wall. Very Alice in Wonderland!



The canyon walls are over a kilometre high at one stage. Very inspiring place.