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27mRené Mirón ‏@renemiroon

Wiiii!!!! Ya estoy en #Zipolite!!!! :)

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14h.::V::. ‏@shaparriiuxx

#Zipolite la pura Fiesta electrosaaa !!! 😍

 from San Pedro Pochutla, Oaxaca

15hJuan J. Galguera A. ‏@jjgalguera

Los únicos que se andan rayando hoy en #zipolite son los zancudos no pican muerden los desgraciados...

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17h.::V::. ‏@shaparriiuxx

Felicidad!! Rodwana.... #Zipolite...

 from San Pedro Pochutla, Oaxaca

18hMeer ‏@MeerUndSonne

Zi PoR La FiESTA FaLTA.. #ZiPOLiTE SiEMPReE SeGURo TiENE Una!!

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21hMorrisol ‏@Marysound

#zipolite #méxico :) http://instagr.am/p/RizRE9ypv1/ 

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1 NovAurea Lobato ‏@aurealobato

Super cansados pero #Zipolite es la onda

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1 NovOli' Barrera ‏@OLiiBarrera

Esa rica pizza de hoy, me alegro la noche. Ya extrañaba #zipolite :D

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1 Novjosue ortiz ‏@lolaslinozipol

3,2,1... QUE COMIENCE LA FIESTA #Carnavalzipolite #Zipolite

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31 OctAurea Lobato ‏@aurealobato

Casi listos, escapamos del frío, #Zipolite allá vamos!!!

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30 OctTina Winterlik ‏@zipolita

My friend made these Pan de Muerto and they were delicious. Pan de Muerto y Altars http://adventurezinmexico.blogspot.mx/2012/10/pan-de-muerto-y-altars.html …#mexico #oaxaca #zipolite

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30 OctTina Winterlik ‏@zipolita

Want a HUGE fish dinner, salad and delicious fruit drinks...Visit herehttp://adventurezinmexico.blogspot.mx/2012/10/piedra-de-fuego-restaurante-zipolite.html … #zipolite #mexico

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30 OctTina Winterlik ‏@zipolita

Shambhala Vision- Recovering Well After Hurricane Carlota!!http://adventurezinmexico.blogspot.mx/2011/03/glorias-shambhala-zipolite-oaxaca.html … #zipolite #mexico#oaxaca

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28 OctTina Winterlik ‏@zipolita

Zipolite Photos http://zipolitazphotoz.blogspot.mx/  #zipolite #oaxaca #mexico#photos

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27 OctTina Winterlik ‏@zipolita

Check out the new blog/website I just made for Shambhala Vision, Zipolite, Mexico http://shambhalavision.blogspot.mx/  #mexico #zipolite#oaxaca #retreat

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Carnival Announces Zipolite, from 1 to 5 November

Carnival Announces Zipolite, from 1 to 5 November

>> From 1 to November 5 Zipolite, Pochutla held its first carnival which is already preparing for various events to take place in natural settings and puzzling Zipolite beach.

Pochutla, Oaxaca | The organizing committee Zipolite 111 Live Concert Stage Zipolite and have prepared a magical event, full of color, music and fun, as announced.

Besides sun, sand and sea, attendees 'Carnival Zipolite' enjoy sports, music, cultural, gastronomic to have a great time.

These events will be framed by magnificent natural scenery as the Island Beach and Playa Zipolite Communal Property Zipolite to be the ideal setting for football and volleyball tournaments and concerts Beach Tropical Music and Electronics and the mega monumental figures sand.

The soccer field will be the scene of Zipolite perfect for festivals Cumbia, Salsa, Tropical, Musical Theatre, Dance, Reggae, Rock and Grupero also in The Colony paver White Rock concerts were held Trova and Bossanova, dance and performance.

It is noteworthy that each festival will cost 100 pesos, while the fair and sample gastronomic have affordable prices, but other activities are free.

The Gastronomic, Mega Offering for Dead Film Festival, Arena monumental sculptures, Artisan Walk, Photo Exhibition and Fair will operate every day.

PROGRAM 
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1
15:00 hrs. Checkered flag floats
18:00. Opening of Carnival in the soccer field of Zipolite
Crowning of the Carnival Queen and Princess
Burning of Bad Humor, Court of Paseo Ribbon Artisan
floats checkered flag, arrived in the Offering Mega
Concert Salsa and Cumbia
21:00 hrs. on the football field will be presented Zipolite Sexy Cumbia, crew Colombian and Latin Power Group. Cost $ 100.00 pesos.

Friday 2nd November
12:00 hrs. Opening the beach volleyball tournament in beach Beach Island commons and
14:00 hrs. Tropical Music Concert and Electronic Music with Puma and his Legion, DJ.Collective Playero
Wet T Contest Bikini Girl
18:00. Trova Concert at Cobble: Neira and Alfonzo Leon Trio Romance and
20:00 hrs. Football field Zipolite Oaxaca Regional Dance (The Guegalguetza)
musical theater (70'DANCE) of UABJO "THE MESSAGE OF THE DEAD" by the Dance Group Sicaru Mahsati

SATURDAY NOVEMBER 3
12:00 hrs. On the beach Communal Property and Island Beach Volleyball Tournament Playero
14:00 hrs. Tropical Music Concert and Electronics with Surge Group, DJ. Rick Ber.va (Italy)
18:00 hrs. Trova Concert at Cobble: Neira and Gustavo Arroyo Trio Romance and
21:00 hrs. Reggae Concert at the football field of Zipolite with: Rake, Casa Verde Collective, Root Null and Tenoch Allien. Cost $ 100.00 pesos.

Sunday, November 4
12:00 hrs. Beach volleyball tournament in Playa Playa Island commons and
14:00 hrs. Electronic Music Concert with: Digital Sedutwo Rock and DJ. Andrey
18:00. Trova and Bossanova Concert at Cobble, performing: Pale Adi Fernando Amaya and
20:00 hrs. Rock Concert at the football field of Zipolite, performing: The Cursed Crocodile Umano Ache, The Risin Sun, The Mamastroficos, Eddie and The Greasy, Ellipses and Middle eskeleto. Cost $ 100.00 pesos

Monday 5 November
12:00 hrs. Beach volleyball tournament in the Final and Awards Beach Island Beach commons and
14:00 hrs. Electronic Music Concert with DJ. Mozkatt (Belgium)
20:00 hrs. Closing Concert at the football field of Zipolite with: Small Musical Band, Band Selection MX, counts and Large Oaxaca. Cost $ 100.00 pesos

LOCATION & DIRECTIONS
The village of Zipolite is located 3 km west of Puerto Angel and nestling along 2.5 km of beach.

BY AIR: From Huatulco airport (45 kms) or Puerto Escondido (75 kms) daily flights from Mexico City and Oaxaca with Mexican Airline, Interjet and vivaaereobus and one hour arrived.

BY BUS: If you travel to Mexico City and southeast Mexico visit the following bus stations: Central Bus Taxqueña, Tapo, South Central and North Central there are direct buses to take Pochutla, Oaxaca. In buses or OCC Columbus Direct travel to Salina Cruz Pochutla passing (12 hours).

ROAD: Leaving the Mexico City and Edo. From Mexico, take the Mexico / Acapulco (Autopista del Sol) Acapulco reaching out into the world and take Imperial highway to Puerto Escondido National Pinotepan and Zipolite.

In Pochutla collective taxis and trucks passing commute to Zipolite.

More information at: www.carnavalzipolite.com or telephone: 01 (958) 5843401/5843124

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Day of the Dead 2012 Photos NOV 2

← The Day of the Dead, La Feria del Alfeñique and Strange Mexican Candies

Day of the Dead 2012 Photos

NOV 2

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Nov. 2nd is the day of the dead.

People make offerings for their dead relatives. These are from the university where I work.

In central Toluca is La Feria del Alfenique, the place to buy skull candy.

Yes you can eat it all.

Calevaritas: great gifts, buy the one doing the job your friend has.

Another offering, this one downtown.

La Catrina y mariachis muertos!!!

Black Eyed Peas ft. Justin Timberlake - Where Is The Love - HD

Scorpions - Send Me An Angel - HD

Oaxaca’s colourful graveyard shift In Mexico’s southern state, the Day of the Dead is unrivalled for its joyous, song-filled festivities BY CHARLIE FIDELMAN, THE GAZETTE NOVEMBER 2, 2012 9:01 PM

Oaxaca’s colourful graveyard shift

In Mexico’s southern state, the Day of the Dead is unrivalled for its joyous, song-filled festivities

BY CHARLIE FIDELMAN, THE GAZETTE NOVEMBER 2, 2012 9:01 PM

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Jean-Claude Teyssier

Photograph by: © Jean-Claude Teyssier

THE GAZETTE

When the people of Oaxaca throw a party for their dearly departed, few other Mexicans can hold a candle to the spectacle: It’s mystical, morbid and mucho fun.

Every year around this time, the Dia de los Muertos — Day of the Dead — produces deliciously macabre scenes all over Mexico. Many rate Oaxaca City and surrounding areas as a top destination for the quintessential Mexican holiday, where tradition dictates that families decorate home altars for deceased kin and visit their graves with “offrendas” or offerings of flowers, candles and their favourite foods.

At a popular graveyard in Xoxocotlan, a village near Oaxaca City, in Mexico’s southern state of Oaxaca, there are bound to be mariachi bands strolling by altars and tombs decorated with sugar skulls, marigold petals, sand tapestries and hundreds of candles. Families will sit all-night vigils over adorned graves of their relatives, fuelled by crazy quantities of food, alcohol and song.

No one ever needs an excuse to stop over in Oaxaca City, the state’s capital, known for its colonial architecture, gorgeous arts and handicrafts, and awesome food. The Day of the Dead just adds to the appeal.

We visited several cemeteries in nearby villages, after starting with the Panteon General, Oaxaca’s main cemetery.

It’s best to go after sundown for the sombre but festive effect of hundreds of candles at twilight. You’ll need a light sweater against the night chill and sturdy shoes.

But the graveyards never seem more alive than during this national holiday, celebrated with enough joy to entice the dead back to the living — loud music, eating and, sometimes, drinking to inebriation. This ritual welcoming the souls of the deceased has existed since Aztec times, and later got overlaid with Catholic traditions.

Tourists are welcome, but discretion is wise. Don’t photograph folks without permission. Despite the merriment, families and friends are gathering to mourn and remember their beloved dead.

Another big attraction lies inside the Panteon, which hosts one of the city’s largest altar exhibitions and competitions. Elaborate creations are judged for authenticity and originality. Each one is decked with “offrendas” that include papier-maché figurines, calaveritas (skulls), skeletons dressed in wedding garb, painted mythical fantasy animals and typical farm scenes and, of course, each is garlanded with gold flowers, fruits and bathed in the glow of candles. A sweet smell of incense and flowers fills the air.

By midnight, the graveyard carousing was as strong as ever. A melancholy elderly woman sat on her husband’s grave, lovingly piled with fragrant marigolds shaped in a cross and the things he once loved: cooked dishes like chocolate mole, his preferred brand of pop, Coke, poured in a cup and a cigarette lit in anticipation of his visit.

Nearby, a raucous family passed around shots of mezcal, the local firewater, sopped up with fried plantain and tamales as their kids curled up on blankets, using the gravestones as pillows.

You’ll want to start by getting party paraphernalia at bakeries, markets and shops near the zocolo, the central town square: a crusty sugar-paste skull with your name painted in blazing colour across its forehead, and a costume for sure, like the grim reaper with a scythe or a skeleton with spindly legs and a toothy smile laughing at death.

The holiday, a surreal homage to death popularized in images by artists like Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo, is high season so it’s best to reserve airfare well in advance. Festivities last a week from late October to early November, and in some villages continue late into the month.

In fact, preparations can be so lavish that many start weeks in advance with farm fields growing swaths of marigolds. Last month, several trucks carted in loads of coloured sand as groundwork for the elaborate sand tapestries now dotting many city squares. Stroll the streets so you don’t miss these ephemeral, giant paintings made with fine sand, often mocking political figures or reflecting local obsessions.

The costume will come in hand for those who want to participate rather than just watch a comparsa set off. A comparsa is a loosely organized, carnival-style group of costumed revellers. They dance the night through cobblestone streets of various barrios or neighbourhoods, accompanied by music bands and laced with drink. Among the best is the one held in Etla, located about 45 minutes from downtown Oaxaca. Hop a bus, a collectivo (taxi) or join a tour company.

Many Oaxacans say the festival is not really about drinking oneself silly. The Day of the Dead is about preparing the way for the return of the souls. It’s an obligation rooted in belief, they said, that the dead do indeed come back to us. This is a way of maintaining the link between present and past. But whether or not you believe in spirits or other worlds, it’s a hell of a party.

cfidelman@montrealgazette.com

If you go:

There are no direct flights to Oaxaca, but Aeromexico has good connections via Mexico City. Call 800-237-6639 or online, http://www.aeromexico.com

Shopping: Markets in Oaxaca City are a must experience. The food kiosks are amazing in their variety, and the dishes are extremely well-priced. You can also find a special sweet bread named Pan de Muerto (bread of the dead). The oldest market is 20 de Noviembre, located two blocks south of the zocolo, on the south side of the Benito Juarez Market. Mercado de Artesanas, four blocks southwest of the zocalo on Zaragoza at the corner of J.P. Garcia, also sells handicrafts including leather, pottery and native textiles. The open-air Central de Abastos market is a mecca for foodies with its fresh produce and cooked delicacies, but watch out for pickpockets.

Sleep: If budget permits, go for the five-star Camino Real, a former convent in the heart of town with its landscaped garden full of fountains and a pool, http://www.oaxaca-hotel-group.com/camino.htm. The popular Casa de las Bugambilias bed and breakfast located near the historic centre has accommodations at about $70 U.S. a night. For a shortlist of recommended BB’s: http://www.oaxacabedandbreakfast.org/

For tourist information: http://www.visitmexico.com/en/oaxaca

Recommended reading: Days of Death, Days of Life: Ritual in the Popular Culture of Oaxaca by Kristin Norget, Columbia University Press, 2006.

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