Replicas Of Mayan House.
Originally uploaded by CHARLES BRAY.
Charles Bray took this picture of the beautiful replicas of the Mayan house where you could see the circular architecture, of wood and palm leaf roofs were the key elements in construction in order to keep the buildings cool all year round.
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Guatemala 2007 (424)
Originally uploaded by cmpcentral.
This Mayan woman shows her beautifully made huipil (blouse).
Niños Tz´utujiles
Originally uploaded by nmarritz.
The two Tz’utujil Mayan boys on either side of the pequeñito (who I assume is their brother) are wearing their traje, or traditional garb. Indigenous people wear their trajes all the time, not only in Semana Santa.
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Jaibalito Atitlan Guatemala Mayan Kids
Originally uploaded by mmrhanna.
Jaibalito sits on the shore of Lake Atitlan. You can stay at the Vulcano Lodge next to the village.
farmer’s wife
Originally uploaded by Clay Enos.
A Mayan woman is taking a stroll.
mayan girls
Originally uploaded by dosik.
On a eco-tour, we stopped off at a mayan village just outside of the mayan ruins of Coba, Mexico to learn about their culture and eat lunch. this is a picture of a couple of mayan girls hanging out with one girl beading. plus at the village, there was an awesome cenote, which is an underground cavern filled with freshwater, into which we were lowered to go swimming in the middle of the hot muggy day. the ecotour was working with the villagers for some neat projects to keep their lifestyles more sustainable - such as training some of the local village male youths in photgraphy so that they can sell pictures to the passing tourists instead of leaving their village to the cities for work. a lot of tours of native villages have a bad rep of being human zoo tours - like many of the tours in the hilltribe area of northern thailand - but this tour seemed to genuinely work with villagers and was sensitive so that we would not overly intrude or offend cultural norms.
