Nothing is quite what it seems in Xenses Park. This Mexican amusement park, in the coastal resort of Cancun, is full of unique activities and optical illusions that are designed to confuse the mind, and the body, until you don’t know if you’re up, down or sideways.

Visitors can follow two adventure circuits round the park – inconsensible or consensible – and it’s possible to do it in half a day. However, with water-rises rather than waterfalls and lemonade that pours from a tree, why rush?

The human body is incredible, equipped with biological tools, the senses, that have kept us safe since the dawn of our time on earth, enabling us to perceive, assess and respond to the external stimuli and environment – these senses drive our fight or flight response.

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The five senses – hearing, sight, smell, touch and taste – are challenged at Xenses Park and the experience can literally turn your world on its head. In addition to the big five, traditional senses, theorists claim that there are several other senses such as magnetorception (sensing the magnetic field around something), equilibrioception (sense of balance) and even hunger, thirst and itching, and the park activities challenge these senses too.

Perspective is challenged: experience the Way of Dwarfs and Giants, where you’re either the size of Gulliver or a Lilliputian; the Xitric Garden where lemonade is tapped directly from a tree;  walk through the Town that defies all logic and dismisses the laws of physics: a place where you won’t know if you’re ascending or descending. The Upside Down House is guaranteed to turn your legs to jelly too.

There’s plenty of opportunity to relax and allow your senses to indulge in pleasure. Go Riverlaxing on a river so salty you can’t sink: relax and let the current carry you through its warm waters. Then embrace the special muds of the Sludgerie, which will cleanse your body leaving your skin rejuvenated. Finish off with a power shower at the Natural Xpa of Xenses.

Tickets can be bought online in advance, and options include admission to the park with, or without access to the nearby archaeological site of Tulum. Riviera Maya has a number of resorts and hotels at which to stay and there are some great deals to be had with all inclusive packages, including transport to and from the local airport and a number of parks and tours in addition to Xenses Park.

There’s plenty to do in Cancun, but for an extraordinary time in Mexico, don’t miss Xenses Park.

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