Thursday, April 18, 2013

Experience The Mayan Way Of Life Through Playa Del Carmen Tours

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.

There are various sections that comprised the Mayan society and this was based on profession. The top most rung of society was occupied by priests and noblemen while warriors, traders, farmers and craftsmen comprised the middle class and the lowest in the hierarchy were the slaves. All these classes have left behind lots of artifacts and what is needed is to have a Guatemala travel plan in order to see the remains. An amazing way to learn more about the classification of the Mayan society is to take Playa del Carmen tours.

Farmers work on their own plot, on the communal plot as well as on the garden that is a part of the house. Based on the type of land, the duty was on the farmer to have it ready as well as make it healthy for cultivation and later plant crops. The swamps through canals along with a well laid out irrigation network have brought in water for cultivation and irrigation. It was common to find farm lands lined with trees with sapodillas and cocoa as tourists discover Playa del Carmen tours.

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.

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 blessed with thick black hair. And they used to have long hair in various styles and head-dresses irrespective of caste, gender and creed. Usually, men keep the front of their heads having no hair and the remaining braided to roll it up into a crown in a manner that a tail was left dangling at the back. The females on the other hand have their hair divided into two parts or braided and then tied in different ways.

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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