Mayan Family Life – Meet the Family

Mayan Homes & Mayan Farming

During the visit to the Mayan Family you will get a real understanding of their lifestyle and family structure. You will meet the Mayan Children. You will experience everyday life around the Mayan home. See the Mayan houses, Farm and Restaurant where they serve their own delicious home cooked food.

Mayan Culture

• How Did The Mayans Live?
• What Did Mayan Houses Look Like?
• What Did Mayans Eat And Drink?

Many people are hope to understand more about the ancient Mayan civilization on their visit to Mexico. We think that the best way to learn more about the ancient Maya is by looking at modern Maya and their family lifestyle.

Meet the Mayan Family

Mayan culture is an ancestral culture, although it is certain that their religion has almost completely disappeared. That said, the lifestyle of some families that live in some remoter areas of the Yucatan has not changed for thousands of years. 

I met this mayan family in 2017, living in the jungle in harmony with nature. It was with great pleasure that I discovered how they share their way of life and their culture with people and they told me that I could share it with other people too. So I started working with them. When we visit with the Cahum family we will talk about architecture, agriculture and so much more.

Experience Mayan Lifestyle

If you come to meet the family and have lunch, to do a cooking class or if you come for a full 24 hour Immersion you will be guaranteed a complete Mayan lifestyle experience.

Mayan Homes

We look inside the Mayan Houses and see how they are made. There are many fascinating features of the simple Mayan hut that makes it a Mayan home or even a Mayan Palace.

Mayan Food

Cooking mayan food is a lovely and insightful way of engaging with the mayan family. Eating the delicious food in the out door restaurant is a unique and special experience.

Mayan Language

The dialect of Maya spoken by the family we visit is Yucatec Maya. There are many different dialects throughout southern Mexico, Guatemala, Belize & Honduras. We will learn a few words of Yucatec Maya on our visit.

10 Mayan Facts

1. Mayan Language there are over 30 different modern dialects of the Maya language that can trace their origins back to one original language we call Proto Maya that was spoken 2000 years ago.
2. Mayan People. Today there are over 6 million people in Central America who speak a derivative of Proto Maya. More about the Maya people.
3. Traditional built Mayan Houses or huts can be built so strong as to withstand the force of a hurricane.
4. Mayan homes are built with wood and leaves from trees that are very easy to source from the surrounding jungle. So if you home does get blown down you and some friends can rebuild it.
5. Mayan Writing or glyphs have only been decoded recently there are over 800 known characters.
6. The Mayan calendar was more accurate than the european one when the cultures first met. The mayan calendar follows the path of venus as well as the sun. More about the Calendar.
7. Mayan women wear a traditional hand made dress decorated with flowers.
8. The Mayan number system was more complex than ours. Ours is based on the number 10. Theirs was based on the number 20. So they could easily count to much greater numbers.
9. Mayan Food. Many of food that you might think of as traditional european food is actually from Mexico. Chocolate for example.
10. Mayan Honey. Mayan or Melipona honey is very important to the Maya. As well as a sweetener for food it is also a medicine that can be used in hot drinks, eye drops, soap and many more healthy things.