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Day of Dead Ajijic Cemetery Tour Tickets?


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As with most historic events , it is more meaningful if you hear a presentation designed to enrich the experience. The tickets are 100 pesos for a 1.5 hour tour including several surprise guests of note from our villages background. You won't get that from walking in the gate. Tickets are at the Casa de Cultura at the Ajijic plaza and at the Efren Gonzalez gallery 1/2 block south of the San Andres church on Ramon Carona (one block east of Colon). All proceeds go to community/cultural village projects

Sunday, November 2nd at 1 pm., 3:30 p.m. and 6 p.m.

Ajijic panteon

The presentation is modeled on the famous Patzquaro event, narrated by Viviane Michel official bilingual interpreter.

Cost 100 pesos

time approximately 1.5 hours

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all proceeds go to community/cultural projects. These tours provide a service while raising money without asking for the community to put out

This happens at cemeteries throughout the country. It is something that has seemed wrong to me for many years. The families who are there to celebrate with their deceased and respect the tradition become involuntary participants in commercial undertakings. Charity or not, just doesn't seem right whether it is in Ajijic, Patzcuaro or the panteon de Belen in Guadalajara.

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and of course you weren't there last year to see the families appreciation of the foreigners interest in their traditions? Yo're just putting your own spin on it and not allowing the mexicans theirs.

I offered my opinion. There is no spin and I never said others don't have a right to theirs. I have never been to the panteon in Ajijic. I have been to the Belen in Guadalajara a number of times. Never paid, though. We happen to visit a cemetery at the coast every year since my father in law died and is buried there to honor to my wife's deceased relatives. My wife of 39 years, my grown kids and small grandchildren are all Mexican. I became a citizen in 1982 so I guess I am allowed to offer an opinion on how I feel. Accompanied my wife to the papeleria yesterday to buy supplies for the altar she is making to honor our fathers. My son built a beautiful, granadillo cross for his uncle's grave that will also make the trip.

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I would feel very strange paying for a cemetary tour when you can just walk around

the cemetary . I find it disturbing too, I do not know why but cemetaries are not zoos..

I can see doing that in France during the All Saints Day or the Day of the Dead, I think people would throw you out.

Mexicans are way more tolerant and polite but maybe it is why I would not feel

comfortable doing it.

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