November 2nd- without any formal traditons to attend I ventured to the Recoleta cemetery for a little Gravedigger's dance of my own. This cemetery is expansive, it is a city within a city, though in habited by ghosts, skeletons and cob-webbed statues. Evita Peron is buried here as well as many of Argentina's presidents, poets and artists. It is almost entirely mausoleums, though not all of them in appropriate repair for the memorial of the deceased. Good for me though- peeking through the broken glass and viewing a very ancient and very real coffin- creepy enough to make my skin crawl! What I found most interesting was the extensive effort that some visitors were giving to decorate their loved ones graves. Painstakingly winding individual flowers around the window and bars of the mausoleums and in the end creating beautiful murals of color. 
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