Saturday, April 27, 2013

Tours To Playa Del Carmen Will Let You Experience The Mayan Way Of Life

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 usually work on their own plot of land, on the shared plot as well as on the garden that was attached to the house. Based upon the type of land, it is the farmer's responsibility to make it work for cultivation and then plant crops later on. Water for irrigation and cultivation was brought in from the swamps by means of a well laid out irrigation network and canals. As Playa del Carmen tours are discovered by tourists, they will commonly find farm land with either sapodillas, or cocoa and many trees lining.

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.

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 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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