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Saturday, April 20, 2013

Experience The Mayan Way of Life First Hand Through Taking Playa Del Carmen Tours And Guatemala Adventure

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.

Various sections comprised the Mayan society and this was based depending on profession. The lowest in the hierarchy were the slaves; the middle class was composed of farmers, craftsmen, traders and warriors while the priests and noblemen occupied the topmost rung of society. These classes have left behind loads of relics and what is needed is chalking out of Guatemala travel plan to see the remnants. Considering Playa del Carmen tours are a great way to learn more about every class' description.

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 were generally experts in various trades and responsible for meeting the basic needs of the people. Therefore, the weavers were required to weave fabrics, the potters produced pottery and often clay figurines and the scientifically oriented produced musical instruments of numerous types. Women wore sack-like dresses that are vibrantly colored and men wore loin cloth. Fine fabrics adorned with shells, bead and various other embellishments were worn by members of the noble families as a privilege. A number of these have been discovered at numerous Mayan ruins and could be easily seen during Playa del Carmen tours.

More complex responsibilities such as measuring the passage of time, plotting calendars and appeasing the Gods to have fair weather for crops to grow were given to priests and noblemen Relentless. This also includes thorough observation of the sky's elements and then allotting each day with a number and name. In addition, the calendar of the Mayan comprises of 18 months and each month is composed of 20 dates and they have 5 additional days that they consider unlucky hence unfavorable. A separate religious calendar characterized having 260 days is showcased by Playa del Carmen tours and its trips. All these social stratifications have one common factor that unifies them and it is the Mayan love of hair.

Genetically, the Mayans were blessed with thick black hair. Although there were various styles and head-dresses, they usually wear long hair irrespective of their gender, caste and creed. The males actually have no hair on the front of their head and have the remaining hair braided and roll it up to make it look like a crown and leaving a tail dangling at the back. In the case of the females, they have their hair divided into two parts tied in different ways and braided.

Head dresses and hairstyles are commonly the topics of depictions in sites covered under Guatemala travel packages and Playa del Carmen tours and so, this civilization can be judged personally to have an opinion.




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