August 19, 2013
Daily pic #3: Danza de la Muerte
It seems that people in Mexico start celebrating Dia de los
Muertos (Day of the Dead) a few days before the actual holiday
(Nov 1-2).
The skeletons are looking at you from the windows, the stores are full of chocolate skulls and zombies walk or ride bicycles among regular people.
I had just a few hours to see Mexico City on Saturday afternoon, in Nov 2012. To maximize my visual exposure I took a double-decked sightseeing bus, called Turibus. Passing by Palacio de Bellas Artes (Palace of Fine Arts) I noticed some commotion in front of the palace, which turned out to be the Dance of Death - an allegory on the universality of death.