Tagged With "DIA"

Currently in San Cristobal de las Casas, Chiapas. Today was full of action all around town but especially in the zocalo with students dressing up the square and themselves. Tomorrow I’m off to a couple of villages and we’ll see what a Zapatista Dia de los Muertos looks like.

  A Saturday trip to the New York Botanical Garden in the Bronx to see a Frida Kahlo exhibit took on a different cast when we realized that the Garden was also celebrating Halloween and the Dia de los Muertos. When we arrived, a variety of...

Jonathan L gives us a guide to the Cozumel that's hiding behind the glitzy resort life.

PortMoresby's experience of Day of the Dead in Chiapas, Mexico will go down as one of the most memorable in over half a century of travel.

Though PortMoresby had seen decorated cemeteries in the wake of Day of the Dead before, the experience on the day, November 1st, was new and quite unlike any other.

After a lively morning in Chamula on Day of the Dead, PortMoresby has a shopping opportunity along with a sobering education in the geology of southern Mexico.

Ibi, in Eastern Spain's Valencia region, was a battlefield Monday as two "armies" fought each other for control of the town, using flour, eggs and firecrackers as weapons. It's hard to say who won. The mock battle takes place every Dec. 28, which is Dia de los Inocentes, roughly equivalent to April Fools' Day in effect. In the 200-year-old tradition, the insurgents seizing the town under the slogan of "New Justice" served as "Enfarinats," or "flour police," levying fines under a mock system...

Jonathan L celebrates Halloween with a trip to Cozumel's Dia de los Muertos.

Fascinating to have experienced this day so up close. I await next week's installment!

Jonathan L takes a road trip up the Hudson River to visit the contemporary art at Dia:Beacon