Maybe it's just me, but I find the combination incredibly tacky. On the good side, at least the clock is energy efficient, using LEDs, so it won't harm the environment before the world ends.
Posted on 01/30/2012 11:55:52 AM PST by Hunton Peck
For doomsday theorists, Dec. 21, 2012 could mean the end of civilization, according to some interpretations of the Mayan calendar. But for some tour operators and property owners, the end of the world also means a chance to cash in on the apocalypse hype.
In the most prominent countries of the Mundo Maya – Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, and parts of Honduras and El Salvador – the tourism industry is gearing up for a record year, with dozens of Maya-themed offerings designed to lure visitors.
The Guatemalan city of Tapachula will feature an 8-foot digital count-down clock in its main park, Mexico's Riviera Maya are planning reenactments of a popular Mayan ball game and the Sacred Mayan Journey, in which hundreds of paddlers travel in canoes to the island of Cozumel to pay homage to the goddess Ixchel. In all countries, there will be special solstice and equinox ceremonies, Mayan-themed workshops and music festivals.
Celebrities have also gotten in on the action: Paul McCartney is scheduled to perform this spring at Chichén Ixtá, an official World Wonder of spectacular Mayan ruins in Mexico’s Yucatán Peninsula. McCartney’s concert at the historic site, which Yucatán governor Ivonne Ortega Pacheco confirmed on her Twitter account, could be part of the singer’s farewell tour.
As 2012 rolls ahead, hotels, tour companies and other travel vendors have rolled out all sorts of Maya-themed packages and itineraries, which vary from authentic to outrageous.
If you're thinking about the using this auspicious time to get married you can join the "Mayan Marriage of Many" and tie the knot with 35 other luck couples on an actual Mayan ruin in Belize. The ceremony takes place on Dec.12, with plenty of time to prepare for the end of the world as a married couple, before you're whisked to a tropical...
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One sure fire way to know if the Mayans are right: I’ll win the lottery the day before.
Be sure to post to FR if you do, OK? That’s one vanity I’ll read.
Even though, as we all know, Sir Paul is no spring chichén.
Maybe it's just me, but I find the combination incredibly tacky. On the good side, at least the clock is energy efficient, using LEDs, so it won't harm the environment before the world ends.
I would pay to see that if it's authentic. Losers get sacrificed.
Would that be Ball in a Cup?
Who cares what the myans think... they are extinct...
Don't laugh . . . frequently the captain of the winning team considered it an honor to be disemboweled to go to the gods. Didn't have to be the loser.
Hey I am going to actually have a party that day. Just for the hell of it. If anything happens we’ll all be smashed if nothing happens we will all be having a great time. Lose Win situation. Cheers.
Better then Two Girls and A Cup. EWWWWWWWW!
I once visited Tel Meggido, otherwise known as Armageddon.
I could just imagine the final battle taking place on that ground.
But it didn’t happen while I was there.
}:-)
“Oohh, Aahh, that’s how all of this starts, but then later there’s the running and screaming”
Today is a 50% day...
You know there’s going to be doing a Heaven’s Gate Deux.
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