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Cancún and the Yucatán : Day of the Dead and All Saints’ Day

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Sugar skulls, dead bread (pan de muerto ), zempazuchitl fowers, and coffin-shaped decorations are the mark of Mexico’s most famous celebration, when people party to celebrate the dead on Halloween and All Saints’ Day (Todos Santos ), and families visit cemeteries to picnic by the graves of their own departed relatives.

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Oct 31–Nov 2

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