Script for tour
I am
writing a script for a tour bus operator, and it will be different than any
tour the operator now offers. Instead of just being a bus tour to the ruins of
some abandoned city, it will be like an Indiana Jones adventure. The tour operator’s guide on the bus will
narrate the tour as though the tourists are archeologists searching for
evidence to discover why the ancient Mayans mysteriously abandoned this city,
and show where they went afterward.
The guide
will repeat for the tourists a folklore tale a Mayan villager told to a tourist
in 2003. According to that tale “evil
spirits live here”, at a pyramid. That
tourist was an author who had written a book about folklore, and he recognized
that this Mayan folklore tale held a scrap of truth in it (he says all folklore
tales do). He believed that tale held
the answer to the Mayan Mystery of why those ancient people abandoned their cities
a thousand years ago. This author
returned to Belize four times, searching for the scrap of truth in that
tale. He found it, and he wrote a book
telling the story of his search and what he discovered about the abandonment of
the cities.
The guide
will show the tourists the book this author wrote, and explain that on this
tour they will pretend they are taking an Indiana Jones style adventure. They will be given hints so they can look for
the clues the author found. At the end
of the tour, the tourists will tell the guide what they discovered, and they
will try to solve the Mayan Mystery themselves.
The guide
will then briefly summarize the discoveries the author describes in his book,
and will say they can buy the book and follow the author all the way through
his search.
The tour
is called ‘Mayan Mystery Tour’, and will be far different than a normal bus
trip to the ruins of an abandoned Mayan city.
Do you believe many of your passengers would sign up for this mystery tour?
To read a
summary of the book the tour guide recommends, go to the website below. You can read the summary in five minutes or
less. After you read the summary, click the
red X at the top right of the screen to return to this page.
This
website needs a few corrections for links for other websites, and the changes
will be made in a couple of weeks, but the summary is correct.
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