Catemaco Cemetery

Richard decided to go find the cemetery. After wandering around in the local streets, and asking directions repeatedly, he found the high wall and an open gate. There was quite a bit of activity there. in several corners of the large cemetery. In one corner, three family members were making a new crypt. In another area, a man was tidying up his family crypt. Richard spoke to him, who cheerfully told him that his wife was buried there. I asked him if there would be room for him, and he assured me that there was. They stack the bodies, one on top of another, in a basement crypt. Another man opened the crypt and showed me how the concrete crypts were arranged. A family buys a plot, and successive family members are buried in the same place or crypt. There is only one cemetery in the city, for the rich and the poor.

After the cemetery, Richard walked downtown to buy bus tickets to go to Veracruz tomorrow. On the way back, he saw another government giveaway in the name rural development, in this case rowboats and nets.

We said goodbye to some of the people here in Tepetapan. Cliff will take us to the bus station tomorrow.