Mexico's tourism agency says it hopes to draw around 52 million visitors in 2012, with many heading to the Maya heartland in the southern states of Chiapas, Yucatan, Quintana Roo and Tabasco. On Wednesday in the city of Tapachula, Chiapas near the Guatemalan border, an eight-foot digital clock in the main square started ticking down the minutes to Dec. 21, 2012.
In other news recent excavation of Mayan ruins in the Yucatan has revealed for the first time the top single records of the long-ago Mayan era-of-domination. The number one hit was “She’s 16”:
