Pan de Muerto

 Day of the Dead is the traditional celebration of the dead on the 2nd November. It's actually not as popular any more, at least not in a big city like Guadalajara but still, Ellie and I searched out the skeletons, altars and yummy Pan de Muerto. In the centre of town, day of the dead skeletons were dressed as sportpeople, inkeeping with the ever present Panamerican Games (now over). Traditionally each family builds an altar to dead relatives, which is decorated with food and things that the relatives used to like, a guitar for example. One of the common foods related with the Day of the Dead is small (and large!) skulls made of sugar and decorated in lovely colours. On the day itself, families flock to the cemetary where they take marigolds en masse to decorate the graves of loved one with. Here are some pictoral representations, yes I finally got some film developed!

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