What Did 'Doomsday' Look Like around the World?

Everyone knows that 21st December 2012 was considered as 'Doomsday' across the world and today is 22nd December 2012 which means the 'Doomsday' is over (just for now!!!).The date, aside from the winter solstice, merely marked the end of a 5,125-year cycle (the 13th baktun)  and the beginning of a new one, according to interpretations of the Mayans’ long-count calendar. Here are some of the images that shows what happened across the world on this 21st December 2012:

Children gesture in front of a replica of a Mayan pyramid before a count-down ceremony organized by the National Museum of Natural Science to help ensure the public it is not the end of the world, in central Taichung on December 21, 2012. A digital ‘doomsday clock’ on top of a two-storey replica Mayan pyramid erected at a museum in central Taiwan’s Taichung city completed its countdown for the end of the world at 0600 GMT — midnight in Mexico.

A ceremony on Friday marking the end of a 5,125-year cycle in the Mayan calendar at Tikal, the ancient Mayan city in northern Guatemala

A shaman takes part in a traditional spiritual ceremony among the ruins at the archaeological site of the Maya civilization of Copan on December 20, 2012.

A Peruvian shaman performs a ritual at a beach to prevent the end of the world, in Lima December 20, 2012. Shamans performed several rituals to calm believers and ward off the end of the world predictions.

Tourists visit the Mayan pyramid in Chichen Itza, Mexico.

A man is "cleansed" with candles next to a sacred fire during the pre-Hispanic mass of "Segunda Conexion" (Second Connection).

Peruvian shamans performed a ritual at a beach to prevent the end of the world, in Lima December 20, 2012.

Others have made their own precautions, including fitting out a lifeboat in which to ride out the end of the world.

Some people believe Bugarach, in the French Pyrenees, is one of the few places on earth to be spared in the apocalypse.

But for many around the world, 21st December is just another excuse for a party.

Some people believe Bugarach, in the French Pyrenees, is one of the few places on earth to be spared in the apocalypse.