Fireworks in the morning!

Dia de Muertos in Mexico

It has been a time of celebration here in Mexico for the past few days.

We are in Ajijic and have been able to view and join in all of the festivities including the Virgen del Rosario celebrations, Halloween and of course Dia de Muertos.

There has been fireworks (VERY loud bangers) going off at dawn all over the town leading up to the Virgen del Rosario and then an amazing parade that went past where we are staying.

For Halloween, we bought a huge amount of sweets that we passed out to local children - who surprizingly arrived for trick or treating in cars or whole families loaded on to motorbikes!!

Ixtlahuacán de Membrillos 

And then it was on to the Dia de Muertos festivities with a highlight being a visit to Ixtlahuacán de Membrillos  to see the incredible memorial altars and also all of the ladies dressed as Catrina's for a competition to select the best Catrina. Another highlight was getting my makeup done by JJ in his local beauty salon - didn't he do a great job?!

Here's some pics from all of the different places we have visited including Ixtlahuacán de Membrillos, Tonalá and Tlaquepaque.