One of the hardest things for me is to return to a destination that I used to love, and find that it is entirely changed. I've traveled to Playa del Carmen five or six times, and each time I go back, the town is a different creature. This last time we decided to head out to a "local" cenote. I went to this cenote around the first time I was in Playa, and it was a dirt path through the jungle that opened up to a cave filled with water. Well, this last time we went, this same local cenote is now a "natural park" and they force you to wear life jackets throughout the park! You can tell that we are not terribly thrilled about this news...
Besides the terribly disappointing cenote adventure, the natural park did have a few extremely steep and scary slides for us to test out.
