In Ecuador on November 2 we celebrate the Day of Deaths, a holiday in which all people remember their relatives and friends who have died, and prepare a special meal of a sweet, hot drink composed of black corn flavour and fruits like blackberries, mortinos and strawberries, which is called "colada morada" (purple cream). This drink is accompanied by sweet and salt bread in doll's form.
On this occasion, families join together to go to cemeteries, bringing flowers for the deads' tombs. After that, they go to the parents' or other relatives' houses to share the special meal.
Some aboriginal families still eat their meals in the cemetery, because they think that is good to share the food with the dead.
In a small town near Quito, called Calderon, people make short figures of marzipan, that have different colours and are really beautiful and elaborate.
I enjoy the Day of Death a lot because I love the "colada morada". In fact, I am thinking to ask my mother if she can send me a container full of my favorite drink.
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4 comments:
Hi Elisa,
I'm very happy to see your blog and to hear about your country and your life in Ecuador. I hope that we can to continue comunicating in this way.
Annick
Dear Elisa:
I never know Ecuador is such as a beautiful place, I would like to visit your hometown.
Ginger
Wow~ the landscape of your country is so fabulous!! beautiful^^ hh then... what is that mountain's name??
The pictures on your blog assosiate with `a girl in Alps`^^ We have a similar festival to remember people who have died. But the festival(?)in Ecuador is very different from Japanese one. It sounds nice!!
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