End of the world? Not so much!

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Filed under Humor, Open thread at December 24th, 2012 - 12:00 pm

Life goes on despite ‘Mayan Apocalypse’

Published on Dec 19, 2012 by AlJazeeraEnglish

Thousands of tourists are flocking to Mexico’s Yucatan peninsula to be part of the so-called “Mayan Apocalypse”. Many of them believe the world is coming to an end this Friday, when a major cycle of the Mayan calendar ends. Some say the 5000-year-old Mayan civilization is entering a new era.

So what do the Mayan people think themselves? Al Jazeera’s David Mercer visited a Guatemalan highland village to find out.

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Tags: Guatemala, Mayan Calendar

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