Slowly, and quietly, the cemetery begins to fill up. The music of a band can be heard slowly approaching the graveyard. It is a family that is carrying an arch accompanied by the band. Their son died a few months before, and this morning is the first Day of the Dead that they will be honoring him. This is why they have brought a band with them.
Music resonates fills the burial ground.
Around nine in the morning the ritual in honor of the deceased children ends. In a couple of hours, at nightfall, the most impressive celebration will begin, the ritual in which the souls of the deceased adults are honored. It is surprising how in such a little island, thousands and thousands of visitors will arrive in order to witness this beautiful rite. In the preceding hours, the carpenters laboriously work to set a stage for the folkloric dances that will be performed as part of the celebrations. At night, with everything ready, the dances begin.