The Day of the Dead (Dia de los muertos)
Last week, there was a very special celebration in many parts of the world. For this celebration, there are many variants around the world as halloween, or the Day of the Dead. On that day, Angel (one of my best friends) and I, went around the downtown. There was a very particular parade. A “monumental alebrijes” parade. The “alebrijes” are a kind of imaginary colorful monsters, which are represented in a tipical mexican handcraft. Those handcrafts are made with glued paper or wood. For more information, we always have the know-it-all wikipedia .
http://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alebrije (ESPAÑOL)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alebrije (FOR ENGLISH)
So, here we have two images. There are more at my FLICKR gallery (http://www.flickr.com/photos/darkprot/). The one on the left is my favorite. He’s a sort of happy muppet, very cute. And the one on the right was the winner of the “monumental alebrijes parade” contest. I like them all.
After that, we walk towards a graveyard in the downtown. The San Fernando’s graveyard is very special ’cause there are the graves of many heroes of the Mexico history. For example there is buried Benito Juarez, Vicente Guerrero among others. There was a very interesting performance in the graveyard, in which many different characters were walking and crying around the graves. More pics in FLICKR
So that was for past weekend. This was a very difficult week for me, for many different reasons but I survived jeje. Anyway, today we’ll be on the MONSTER JAM show, where I’ll try to take some pics. For next week I’ll be on San Luis Potosi for a meeting. I’ll try to post from there. Greetings!!
