Central Mexico Highlands / Guanajuato - Cemetery 1

Photo by Jeff Robbins, S/V Vesper
September 2002

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Guanajuato - Cemetery 1

The cemetery has quite a story. There isn't enough room for everyone, so periodically bodies are exhumed. Especially if the family hasn't paid recently. The bodies tend to be mummified by the peculiar environmental conditions and those mummies that are worthy of display are placed in a museum. The remaining ones are cremated to make space. See our Ship's Log entry "Dead People Pay Rent Too" for more details.