End of the world?  Not so much! 

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.