Monday, April 29, 2013

Guatemala Adventure And Playa Del Carmen Tours To Experience The Life Of The Mayans

By Linda Patterson


A lot of people believe that the very best way to learn something is to experience it personally. With this, the best way to experience the Mayan way of life is to opt for Playa del Carmen tours. In a normal Mayan family day of life, the lady of the house is the one who gets out of bed earlier. Preparing the first meal of the day and lighting up fire for the whole household included her scale of duties. Men and boys rise up an hour later from sleep to have their first meal of the day and then leave to do some field work.

The several classifications of the Mayan society were based on one's profession. Priests and noblemen comprised the topmost rung of society; the middle was composed of farmers, traders, craftsmen and warriors while the lowest in the hierarchy were the slaves. Each one of these classes has left behind a lot of artifacts and all it takes is chalking out of Guatemala travel plan to be able to see the remains. Learning more regarding the description of every class is to consider Playa del Carmen tours.

Farmers were working on the communal plot, their own plot of land as well as on the garden attached to the house. Determined by the type of land, the obligation was on the farmer to prepare it plus make it work for cultivation and afterwards plant crops. Canals along with a well laid out irrigation network were brought in by the swamp to provide water for irrigation and cultivation. While tourists are discovering Playa del Carmen tours, they will commonly find a lot of trees lining the farm land and there were sapodillas and cocoa.

Craftsmen have the responsibility of meeting the people's basic needs and were generally artisans who have expertise in a variety of trades. As a result, the potters made pottery and in some cases clay figurines , the weavers had to weave fabrics, and the scientifically oriented made musical instruments of various types. Loin cloth was worn by men while vibrantly colored sack-like dresses are worn by women. The wearing of fine fabrics with beads, shells and other embellishments was a privilege given to members of noble families. Most of these have been discovered at many different Mayan ruins and could be easily seen during your Playa del Carmen tours.

Noblemen and priests are given more complex functions such as to appease the Gods in order to guarantee fair weather for crops to grow, measure the course of time and plot calendars. This typically entailed relentless and careful observation of the sky's elements and then allotting each day a name and number. Moreover, a Mayan calendar is comprised of 18 months and each month has 20 days and there were additional five days that were deemed NOT lucky. The Playa del Carmen tours and its trips would showcase a separate religious calendar characterized having 260 days. Generally, the Mayans have one unifying factor and it is the love of hair.

The Mayans are genetically blessed with thick black hair and all Mayans regardless of creed, caste and gender usually have a long hair in various styles. The males generally keep their front head without hair and have the remaining hair braided and make it into a crown and leave the tail dangling at the back. On the other hand the females have their hair divided into two parts or tied in different ways or braided.

Under Playa del Carmen tours likewise Guatemala travel packages, hairstyles as well as head dresses are common topics of depictions in sites which can judged personally in order to give an opinion of this civilization.




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