Thursday, April 18, 2013

Guatemala Adventure Travel To Experience The Mayan Way of Life

By Linda Patterson


Majority of people believe that experiencing something firsthand is the best way to learn it. And when it comes to experiencing the Mayan way of life, opting for Playa del Carmen tours is very important. The lady of the house is the one who wakes up and gets out of bed earlier in a normal day in the life of a Mayan family. Lighting up fire as well as preparing the first meal of the day for the entire family was included in her scope of duties. After an hour later, boys and men rise from sleep in order to have their first meal of the day and go to the fields to 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.

Basically, craftsmen are artisans who are experts in many different trades were responsible for meeting the people's basic needs. Hence, the weavers had to weave fabrics, the potters made pottery and quite often clay figurines and the scientifically oriented created musical instruments of varied types. Men wore loin cloth and women wore vibrantly colored dresses that are sack-like. Noble family members have the privilege to wear fine fabrics with adornments such as shells and beads. Several of these have been found at different Mayan ruins and could be easily examined while you're on 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.

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.

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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