The mammoth grottes near San Cristóbal are both cooler and less cool than you might expect.
The uncool thing: the grottes aren’t really like amazingly beautiful – to be honest.
But!!!!
The part that is labelled as a mammoth actually looks like a mammoth. And I’ve seen a lot of things in Mexico that were pretty much made up. So… Apart from that, the grotte or cave is really big. Like when you enter, it’s quite a big grotte where you slowly go further in and walk along a kind of circular path that, among other things, leads you to the illuminated mammoth. It is of course smaller than it probably would have been in reality, but the outer contours are more or less correct. Like you can recognise it.
Apart from that, the grotte isn’t super cool. But it is okay cool. My personal highlight at the time was when we were exploring the cave and found a mushroom growing all by itself in the dark. It was really small and I had to get really close with my camera to take a proper photo. It may sound stupid, but finding an orange mushroom like that in the dark between stones in a grotte…. You just don’t expect that 😀

Go or not? I would say optional. The trip is quite cool, but not a priority. So I’d go if you’re still up for it and have time. And I don’t know whether the mushroom is still there or not 😀