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Grutas Tolantongo Gallery

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The terraces, the grotto, the river and the canyon they sit in — what the place actually looks like, in daylight and after dark.

The thermal pools of Grutas Tolantongo stepped down the canyon wall at sunset, with the low sun breaking through the mountains
Late afternoon, looking down the terraces. The sun drops behind the canyon rim early here, which is why the pools warm up long before the air does.
The terraced thermal pools of Paraíso Escondido at Grutas Tolantongo from above, jade-green water stepped down ochre travertine terraces
Paraíso Escondido from above. Each pool spills into the one below it, and the ochre is travertine the water has laid down itself.
Grutas Tolantongo thermal pools running down the canyon wall with the mountains of Hidalgo behind them
The view most people come for: pool after pool down the cliff, with the far wall of the canyon across the valley.
Turquoise pools at Grutas Tolantongo with water falling between the terraces
The water arrives hot from the rock above and drops from terrace to terrace all day.
Looking down the pool terraces at Grutas Tolantongo, with the stone steps and path beside them
Steps run the whole way down beside the pools. They are wet, and that is the argument for water shoes.
The waterfall wall above the cave entrance at Grutas Tolantongo, with visitors on the steps below
The wall above the grotto entrance, running with water the whole width of the rock.
Water spilling over ochre travertine into a clear turquoise pool at Grutas Tolantongo
Close up, the travertine looks poured rather than built. It is limestone the spring has left behind.
The milky turquoise thermal river at Grutas Tolantongo running between white boulders in the canyon
The river at its widest, warm enough to sit in and shallow enough to cross.
The thermal river at Grutas Tolantongo below the limestone peaks of the Mezquital Valley
The peaks above the canyon. From the road there is no sign any of this is down here.
Bathers in the thermal river at Grutas Tolantongo with the canyon walls rising behind
The river bank on a weekday. On Saturdays this stretch has people the whole way along it.
The suspension bridge at Grutas Tolantongo crossing above the pools, with the water slide below it
The bridge over the Túnel del Paraíso, with the slide running under it into the pools.
A swimmer floating in a cliff-edge pool at Grutas Tolantongo above the canyon
The lip of the lowest terrace. The drop beyond it is the reason the pools are built in steps.
Two thermal pools at Grutas Tolantongo under a spreading tree, with water pouring in from the rock above
Shade is scarce down here, so the pools under this tree fill first.
The thermal pools at Grutas Tolantongo after dark, with the suspension bridge lit green across the canyon
After dark the bridge is lit and the pools stay open. The river closes to swimmers at 10 p.m.
The bilingual visitor rules sign at the entrance to Grutas Tolantongo
The rules are posted in Spanish and English at the entrance: no river after 10 p.m., and quiet from 11.

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Every departure here goes to the water in these photographs. What separates them is how many hours you get beside it and what you travel in.

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The named parts of the canyon — the grotto, the steam tunnel, the terraces and the river — are set out in the cave, the tunnel and the pools. For what a day down there involves, see hours and access, and every grutas de tolantongo tour is listed side by side.