Refuge of the Mayas and the Corsairs

On the East coast of Mexico - where moon crescents rest horizontally among stars - a small island covered by white sand, bordered by cliffs modeled by turquoise water of the Caribbean Sea, preserves traces of a faded past.

Its sand, henceforth trampled by an eclectic tourist fauna, once welcomed the Maya priests and their believers before failing to protect them from foreign conquerors. According to the legend, pirates hid their treasures and held their captive wives there, between two stopovers. From which its name: Isla Mujeres (Women's Island).

At one end of Isla Mujeres, where rocks advance boldly towards ocean and waves are broken with energy on the littoral, a cave whose wall is bored, invites to dream of corals, corsairs and buccaneers, and to breathe the amply marine air.