She will receive a framed Guatemalan artisanal embroidery from the town of Santiago Atitlan, where the women create and
wear huipiles (blouses) embroidered with birds.
All locals adhere to the ways of traditional weavings and the women wear superb
huipiles with radiant flowers motifs.
The locals adhere to traditional cultural ideals, the women wearing
superb huipiles, with radiant flower motifs.
After passing through the market town of Aguacatán, where women in white - and -
red huipiles sell everything from garlic to geese, I headed 45 minutes up a mountain to the village of Chex, where I found a cargo truck that had careened over the side of a road.
Regional dances are performed by women in brightly colored
embroidered huipiles and men dressed in white wearing locally made Panama hats.
Although no two rooms are the same, all rooms are appointed with beautiful furnishings and local handicrafts, including
colorful huipiles (traditional blouses worn by indigenous women).
Most of the local women wear purple - striped skirts and
huipiles with floral designs and the older men are known for their white - striped pants.
Mérida offers great shopping for paintings, handicrafts, hammocks and
huipiles.
The villages have numerous sights and markets and each one is individual with their own unique and colorful «
huipiles».
Of the products that they commercialized, you could find bird feathers, seeds, salt, honey, wood, gum, cotton, corn, handcrafts, jade, coral,
huipiles (traditional Mayan dress), textiles, sea shells, ceramics, cocoa, medicinal plants, among other products that were traded through the trueque system (their system of trade).