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Oaxaca

...Days of the Dead festival at the end of October/beginning November...

Pictures: a Day of the Dead shrine to a relative; kids dressed to kill during the festival; a sand picture in Oaxaca's Zocalo.

Day[s] of the Dead [Dias de los Muertos] is perhaps Mexico's most illuminating festival, celebrating death and departed relatives with enormous gusto, colour and fearless respect. It runs from Oct 31 - to Nov 2, unofficially combining Halloween with All Saints Day [Nov 1] and All Souls Day [Nov 2].
In key towns, such as Oaxaca, Mixquic [south of Mexico City] and Janitzio island, Lake Pátzcuaro in Michoacán [west of Mexico City], death oriented products such as sugar skulls, bread bones, dancing skeletons and all manner of creepy costumes hit the streets days before the event.
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