November 2, 2014
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Hoy es Dia De Los Muertos!
Our second day in Durango we did not miss the festivities for Day of the Dead. Because our hotel was so close to the central plaza, we had a first hand view of the goings on. There were colorful statues, papel picado (colorful cut paper), colorful lighting, bands playing, and lots of street vendors.
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| We ate at a very nice restaurant, and they had this entirely appropriate papel picado. |
One problem we discovered was that some of the decorations made it difficult to know what was normal Durango, and what was holiday Durango. What was very frustrating was when we went to educate ourselves at the mining museum, only to find that it had undergone a conversion into one of those tunnel of doom things where people jump out and scare you. Normally the museum is a mining shaft that has exhibits and placards with information about mining in Durango. You go down into the entrance in the Central Plaza and exit 2 blocks away. When we went down, there were dead bodies stuffed into the mining carts, spiderwebs hanging from all the rafters, and, most bizarre of all, jars of animal fetuses in one of the exhibits. It made for a strange museum experience.
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| Exhibit in the mining museum. |
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| Pickled pork. |
Here are some photos of the festivities in the plaza:
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| Band playing music! |
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| As you can tell from the photo the dancers wouldn't stop spinning! Their dresses were very colorful. |
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| One of the statues in the Central Plaza |
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| La Joven Michoacana: the most beautiful in my humble opinion. |
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