Learn more about the celebrations before you head to Mexico Keep in mind that the drive will take around 2 hours. There’s no accommodation in the barrio, so you’ll have to drive back to CDMX late at night after your visit to the cemetery. Start your journey in the afternoon to ensure you find parking once there.
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Buy yourself a local SIM card, download the Waze app – everyone in Mexico relies on Waze for directions and to avoid traffic – and head south to Mixquic with some friends. Visiting Mixquic will take about half your day, and the best way to get there is by renting a car. During this time, people open their homes for visitors to admire the ofrendas (altars) they set up to guide the spirits of their departed family members back home for the night, so follow the crowds and see where the night takes you. While you wait for the main event, you can wander the streets of the barrio itself, which is also dressed for the occasion with striking Day of the Dead graffiti along its walls.
If you find yourself in the area on October 26th, you can also attend the Catrina parade to see hundreds of people – performers and revelers alike – dressed up as graceful skeletons in opulent costumes. It will start at the Estela de Luz monument and end at the Zócalo square (where a formidable Day of the Dead altar will be set up from October 25 to November 17). The main parade will take place on November 2nd from 4-8 pm along Avenida Reforma. This is an event that definitely draws in the crowd, so make sure you arrive a couple of hours before the parade is set to start to grab a spot at the front and actually see the parade go by – as opposed to endless rows of people standing in front of you. True, it was the James Bond film's depiction of a Day of the Dead parade in Mexico City that inspired the real one to come to life, but if you find yourself in CDMX in early November, you won’t be sorry to follow in the locals’ footsteps.ĭazzling floats, dancing Catrinas – elegantly-dressed skeleton women – and enormous puppets resembling Frida Kahlo and other famous figures from Mexico’s historical and cultural past will march by wide-eyed spectators along Avenida Reforma.
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sorry, Ken 3! I have to keep my free room only for dolls I really like, and you just failed to make the grade.In Mexico City the holiday is celebrated with a large and over-the-top parade © Vincent Isore / Getty Images Attend the Parade in Mexico CityĪ recent addition to the capital’s cultural events calendar, The Day of the Dead Parade is back for its third installment and it promises to be as spectacular as in previous years. It's in a style that I don't really like.Īll that said, though, his makeup is very good, and I do appreciate that they tried to differentiate him from the first two Kens. However, in the end, I think that the hair is what kills it for me. The stripes on the shirt don't quite merge with his appearance, and with all the flowers- I think that Black would have worked better with silver, and maybe if they kept him silver/black it would have been more striking? The jacket's purple is too bright, and it's too wide and loose- it should have been more fitted, maybe. Mayyyybe it would have worked if they REALLY went all out with that? I guess that actually makes him a smidgen cooler, somehow. Heh, you have a point that he invokes Beetlejuice, what with the silver/black stripes, and the purple jacket. I'm just not a fan of this Beetlejuice Ken at all. ANY OTHER COLOR would have been better than the same thing yet again.
Regardless it looks like the exact same color as last year. Or purple again or whatever shade that is. I don't know why they made him blue again.
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