According to the country’s tradition, on this date the cemeteries are decorated to receive the spirits of the dead who return on the nights of November 1st and 2nd to visit their loved ones.
Tomb decorated in Oaxaca de Juarez Cemetery, Mexico, during the celebration of Dia dos Muertos. Halloween is a delightful break to allow imaginations to go wild with creative costumes and over-the- top home decorations (massive-size skeletons rule the landscape this year), not to mention the best excuse to party.īut The Day of the Dead – or Dia de los Muertos – has a sombre feel, and a reverence for the dearly departed that has many flocking to cemeteries in the evening to decorate gravestones of their loved ones, and set a delicious repast in which the dead are guests of honours.