Today we slowly woke, tired from our days of hard work, getting to sleep in a little later than usual, however today was going to be a jam-packed day! After breakfast and once all the dishes had been washed, we set off for a tour of ancient Mayan ruins! Our tour guide was a Mayan spiritual leader which made our tour an amazing learning experience for us! Learning about the ruins and the culture was so interesting and we learned so much! Our tour guide didn’t speak English so Susan, our tour leader, translated everything for us. We saw where the Mayans played a special kind of four on four “football” with their hips, heads, knees, and elbows! This game was a spiritual game, based largely upon the energy of the players, having to have good energy in order to do well in the game. We learned that there was about 150 thousand Mayans who lived in the area, but only 30 government figures would have lived in the place that we visited. We also learned that they place was only rediscovered forty years ago, the excavations took about ten years to complete, and it was originally built and inhabited in the twelve hundreds! We visited the ruins on a very special day, as it was the spring equinox, where there is equal daylight and night. This also meant that there was a special Mayan ceremony taking place in order to celebrate this special day!
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