Apparently attracted by Doomsday — the Maya calendar ends on Friday — a record number of visitors are checking into Cancun and Riviera Maya hotels on the Mexican Caribbean. The Cancun airport reports the number of arrivals is about 10 percent more than this time last year. The Maya used two calendars, the religious one based on a planetary alignment that occurs only every 5,125 years. Maya experts say that Dec. 21 marks not the end of the world, but the beginning of a new baktun, or era.
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Jimm Budd
Reporting From Mexico City
Member of the Society of American Travel Writers
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