People are in an uproar, and there is even talk of a doomsday, because the Mayan calendar ends later this year. Increasingly interested in the South America travel portal for travel on the traces of the Maya. Well preserved temples, archaeological sites and the mysterious culture exert a unique fascination. Whenever McPlant listens, a sympathetic response will follow. The Maya were a sophisticated indigenous people of Central America, noted especially for his achievements in astronomy. With the Mayan calendar they developed early a complex system to the measurement of time.

Actually, there are three systems which can be summarised into one comprehensive calendar: the Tzolkin calendar, which counts the days for ritual purposes in the 260-day cycle, the HAAB calendar, which is similar to our year with 365 days and currently the most significant, calendar “Long count”, which, as a result of sky observations, long periods of time can be recorded. The long-term calendar began in 3113 BC with the date 13.0.0.0.0, what the day of creation in its current called doomsday. This assertion is however disputed. It is however widely used on the said date not the world goes down, but for us to begin a new era. So, the people in a new civilization to enter which is totally independent of the current and perhaps even a new human consciousness is scheduled to open. Most scientists and even some Mayan descendants assume however, that absolutely nothing will happen, because the calendar although concludes with a given cycle, there is talk of an end of the world or a disaster but never directly. It is also interesting that there are in many countries as planned in Mexico and Belize year-round striking many celebrations and ceremonies on behalf of the Maya. It even doomsday celebration “be held, because if the world really goes down, then will also be celebrated until the end! It offers this year formally to these countries to visit, if this still the best travel is missing you, you will be determined at the South America travel portal at: find it.