Jesus and Tequila - Dia de los Muertos in the Yucatan

What a cool tradition - Dia de los Muertos (day of the dead) where, if you're the unfortunate one who is being celebrated, you'll be offered up all kinds of good stuff. Anything from packs of smokes and bottles of tequila to piles fruit and tortillas....all of which are certainly useful in the after-life.

Banana leaf-wrapped tamales are just one of the items included in a "pibi pollo" - a kind of traditional dinner that is searved in all the restaraunts during Dia de los Muertos.

Music is part of the festivities. I'm guessing the dead must really like off-key music played on 100 year old antique insturments that are totally out of tune. I liked it - but I'm half dead myself

It must be really hard to peel an orange if you're dead - all the ones I saw as offerings were convieniently pre-peeled

Lots of smoke from insence and candles and little camp fires along with creepy music and animal sacrafices.

Tortilla insanity