Escaping doomsday in Serbia?

Visitors were flocking to the pyramid-shaped Siljak peak in southeastern Serbia, ahead of the Mayan-foretold ‘doomsday.’ Rtanj is selling itself as the best place to survive the looming apocalypse – which will fall on Dec. 21, according to mystics whose calculations depend on the ending of an era in the 5,125-year-old Mayan calendar.

Residents tried to sell homemade brandy.

A man waited for customers in his small restaurant.

People built restaurant signs.

A woman carried her bag as she arrived in town.

A man poured homemade brandy for a friend.

People carried their bags as they arrived.

The moon as seen through tree branches.

A man drinks homemade brandy.