El Dia de los Muertos

Festival Location: All Areas, Mexico

Festival Type(s): Family Festivals, National Festivals, Traditional Festivals

Featured Festival: El Dia de los Muertos

This wonderful selection of Day of the Dead photos taken by Mary Andrade. For more of Mary's Day of the Dead photos on 2camels check out gallery 1 and gallery 2. For a wealth of information on all things Day of the Dead related please visit Mary's websites - Day of the Dead, Dia de Muertos and Day of the Dead Blog.

El Dia de los Muertos, All Areas, Mexico photo

Decorated tomb in the cemetery of Tzurumutaro - State of Michoacan

A woman's vigil in the cemetery of Tzurumutaro - State of Michoacan

Vigil during the day in the cemetery of San Gabriel Chilac - State of Puebla

A couple enter the cemetery of the city of Puebla carrying cempasuchitl flowers, to decorate a tomb - State of Puebla

Vigil in the cemetery of Cucuchucho - State of Michoacan

Flower seller in a small town - State of Michoacan

Style of bread of the dead (pan de muerto) in the market place of the city of Oaxaca - State of Oaxaca

Style of bread of the dead (pan de muerto) in Patzcuaro - State of Michoacan

Offering of bread of the dead (pan de muerto) on a tomb in the cemetery of Tzurumutaro - State of Michoacan

Vigil in the cemetery of Mixquic, near Mexico City

El Dia de los Muertos Video

Mexico's Day of the Dead (dia de los muertos) where deceased family members take centre stage. For two days at the beginning of November each year the people of Mexico gather at graveyards to honour those that have passed before them. Mariachis play, incesnse burns and the atmosphere is more one of fiesta than wake, so is the Mexican attitude to death. Check out the doco type vid on Mecxico's Day of the Dead.