What It's Like to Walk with Zombies: Why You Should Visit Mexico for Day of the Dead Andrew Carswell - The Daily Telegraph
go to original August 24, 2014

A giant artwork of a skeleton sits in Mexico City's Zocalo plaza during Day of the Dead festivities. (AP/Gregory Bull)

There is a grisly six-foot zombie walking towards me, seemingly untroubled by the bloody axe protruding from its skull.

Does one affect a roundhouse kick to exorcise this morbid beast from the sanctity of this quiet suburban street? Or let it pass by without catching its eye, lest it turns on me?

The latter is chosen. And thankfully. Rounding the corner and there are more – ghouls, skeletons, witches. They are everywhere.

Thankfully, to this human, these hideous creatures are happy, congenial. They are celebrating, chomping down on sugary bread, dancing to Latin hip-hop spraying through old speakers, lighting candles and turning the town’s parkland into a wonderland.

This isn’t Halloween. It’s much more important than that.

It’s the Day of the Dead – a national holiday for Mexicans and a time to eat, drink whole vats of tequila and dress in costumes that make the trick of treating their amigos across the border seem rather mundane.



A woman dressed like a "Catrina". Mexicans celebrate the Day of the Dead on November 1st and 2nd in connection with the Catholic holy days of All Saints' Day and All Souls' Day. (AFP)

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