Dia de los Muertos en Cuenca

As a celebration of the Latin holiday, we went to the cemetery to see all the festivities. There was this beautiful, albeit sad, monument to Ecuadorians who had fallen trying to immigrate the United States. The figures are etched in glass, walking the path, from young to old, men and women.

We were surprised to find that the cemetery was more festive than imagined - it appeared more like Carnival...people selling food and typical Day of the Dead ¨Juajuita de Pan¨ y ¨Colada Morada¨ so we thought where better to have dinner...

The food was excellent. We had meat skewers, tortillas, little fried doughnuts, colada morada which is a heated fruit drink. Here, Dani with a skewer of meat and a tortilla de choclo (yellow corn).

This was the church right outside of my hotel on the night of November 1st all lit up for the Day of the Dead.