DIA DE LOS MUERTOS

.In the predominately indigenous town of Santiago Sacatepéquez Guatemala on dia de los muertos / dia de los difuntos or Day of the Dead/ All Saints Day. Bamboo kites are made as a way to communicate with the dead, symbolically attracting the spirits to earth. The smell or marigolds, chrysanthemums, daisies and copal incense fill the air as families gather to clean the graves and adorn them with flowers, papel picado and candles..In the predominately indigenous town of Santiago Sacatepéquez Guatemala on dia de los muertos / dia de los difuntos or Day of the Dead/ All Saints Day. Bamboo kites are made as a way to communicate with the dead, symbolically attracting the spirits to earth. The smell or marigolds, chrysanthemums, daisies and copal incense fill the air as families gather to clean the graves and adorn them with flowers, papel picado and candles.

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.In the predominately indigenous town of Santiago Sacatepéquez Guatemala on dia de los muertos / dia de los difuntos or Day of the Dead/ All Saints Day. Bamboo kites are made as a way to communicate with the dead, symbolically attracting the spirits to earth. The smell or marigolds, chrysanthemums, daisies and copal incense fill the air as families gather to clean the graves and adorn them with flowers, papel picado and candles..In the predominately indigenous town of Santiago Sacatepéquez Guatemala on dia de los muertos / dia de los difuntos or Day of the Dead/ All Saints Day. Bamboo kites are made as a way to communicate with the dead, symbolically attracting the spirits to earth. The smell or marigolds, chrysanthemums, daisies and copal incense fill the air as families gather to clean the graves and adorn them with flowers, papel picado and candles.