🇲🇽 Día de los Muertos was amazing… but I probably won’t return.

The Day of the Dead was a festival I’d wanted to experience since last year 🎭💀. My curiosity began with the movie Coco 🎥✨—Mexico’s vibrant colors, passionate culture, and joyful attitude toward death fascinated me deeply. So this year, I made sure to fly here no matter what. I traveled in a loop: Mexico City → San Miguel → Guanajuato → Morelia → back to Mexico City 📅 7 days, 6 nights I was lucky to catch limited-time events like the grand parade and cemetery tours with music and dancing 💃🕺. I’ll never forget: The colorful streets and decorations 🏠🌈 People dressed in extravagant artistic outfits 🎨👗 Families singing and dancing joyfully beside their loved ones’ graves 🕯️🎶 I felt incredible life energy and cultural impact. But I also won’t forget: The chaotic traffic and poor management 🚗💥 The repetitive and (to me) underwhelming food—mostly just tacos 🌮😐 (personal preference, no offense!) The contrast between dirty streets and gorgeous architecture 🏛️🚮 Kids holding pumpkin lanterns asking for money instead of candy 🎃🪙 Walking on uneven cobblestones at 1 AM, breathing car exhaust in crowded spots 🚬😵 Our tour guide making us hold hands like schoolkids so we wouldn’t get lost 👫🧑🤝🧑 A place that feels both rustic and overly commercial—yet not in a good way The culture is magnificent, but the tourist experience… isn’t. When we got stuck in traffic for 40 minutes after the parade in Mexico City (a 2-minute drive normally), I whispered to myself: “I’m probably not coming back.” But the most memorable part wasn’t any of that. It was the people I met: A retired grandma traveling energetically with her best friend—already been to 50 countries! 👵🧳 A brother and sister who immigrated to New Zealand for tech jobs 🥝💻 A guy on gap year before studying in Australia next year 🎒🐨 A cool grandpa at the airport who’d been solo road-tripping and drone-filming across Mexico for 10 days 🚁🇲🇽 When asked how she never gets tired of traveling, the grandma said: “I can’t help it—it’s love.” ❤️ I realized there are so many ways to live a full life—at any age, in any season. Because of love, we flew here from all over the world, met, shared moments, then parted like fireworks in the night sky 🎆✨. But I’ll try hard to remember these sparkling moments. We can face death openly… and live life to the fullest too. 💃☠️🌍 #SomeMoments #CaptureThisFeeling #DíaDeMuertos #MexicoTravel #DayOfTheDead #Coco #TravelTheWorld #OnTheRoad #MexicoDiary #RandomThoughts