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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 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.

Responsibilities that are complex were given to noblemen and priests such as measuring the time's passage, plotting calendars as well as appeasing the Gods so as to ensure fair weather for growing crops. These include thorough and relentless observation of the elements of the sky and then each day was allotted with a name and number. Also, the calendar of the Mayan is made up of 18 months wherein each month is composed of 20 days and they have 5 additional days that they consider unlucky therefore inauspicious. The trips in Playa del Carmen tours would reveal a separate religious calendar that is composed of 260 days. The Mayan love of hair was a common unifying factor through all these social stratifications.

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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