Earlier this year me and my family took a holiday in Mexico in the Yucatan Peninsula. On one of our day trips we visited a Mayan Village where we were privileged to visit two houses which belonged to two Mayan sisters. Their husbands were out working all day whilst they stayed at home, looked after the children and created hand made crafts to sell locally to tourists. The sisters we visited specialized in hammocks and the traditional embroidered dresses, they stitched the beautiful and intricate patterns using the sewing machine and hand weaved the hammocks. We didn't realize this, but if you are visiting a Mayan village you can take along gifts with you for the Mayans. A lot of people seemed to have taken shampoo bottles and soaps from their hotels, fruits and clothes. I really wish we'd have known this before hand. If you're heading over to Mexico you can find out more about the day trip here, it included visiting Coba, a large ruined city of the Pre-Columbian Maya civilization, a traditional Mexican lunch (very yum!), the visit to the Mayan village and then a quick dip in a cenote on the way back. Very refreshing!
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