Cemetery in Porto

While the cemetery in Lisbon was super close and convenient to where we were staying, the cemetery in Porto was a bit of a trek. First we had to ride the train 10 minutes to Casa de Musica stop, then walk another 10 minutes to the entrance. 

Thankfully, I was feeling slightly better from pregnancy sickness, and  cemeteries in Portugal are a photographer’s dream, so it was well worth the trip. 

Like the one in Lisbon, this cemetery was also composed of large mausoleums, but it had dirt roads instead of stone ones, and a really eerie crematorium. This cemetery was definitely creepier and more gothic than the one in Lisbon. 

A Cemetary in Lisbon

I always plan to visit a cemetery in every new country I go to, but Portugal was no exception. However, once I learned I was pregnant (after I booked my trip) and became very ill, I scrapped most of my plans and hoped I would at least be able to make it out of bed once a day. 

As luck would have it, the airbnb we booked in Estrela was within block of Lisbon's most famous cemetery - Cemitério dos Prazeres. I couldn't resist the 10 minute walk and though I should at least try to explore what I can. 

Built in 1833 and featuring large mausoleums, it is one of the most beautiful cemeteries I have ever been.

The "streets" of the cemetery are paved like those for cars, and even have lamps, benches, trashcans, and sidewalks too. 

In the summer, the beautiful Jacaranda trees were in bloom, and added color to the stone mausoleums. 

I was surprised to see these very Chinese-looking mausoleums in the cemetery, but then again, Macau was a Portuguese colony. 

The cemetery was up on a hill and had an impressive view of the bridge and river. 

Panteón Municipal Uno, Tijuana Cemetery

The last time I went to Mexico in 2010, I didn't get a chance to go to a cemetery, which I greatly regretted. I had been wanting to go to a Mexican cemetery ever since, so on my first weekend trip to Tijuana, I made sure to go to one, even though I was only there two days.

We took an Uber to Panteon Municipal Uno, which I gathered was the biggest and mot accessible according to the maps. Although it was only a 5-minute ride from the Cecut, it felt like the middle of nowhere. It was right at the edge of the border where the great wall loomed large. The neighborhood around it scared me slightly, and I wouldn't want to be there at night.

Unfortuantely I didn't think to check the timing and we arrived at 4:15pm when the cemetery closed at 4:30. The guards were eager to get us out so I had to rush the photos.

A few things I love about this cemetery...the wild growth of succulents and cacti around the graves, the full-color Virgin Mary, and this very special grave, made up of toys and an inflatable spider man in the trees:

St. Louis Cemetery No. 1

St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 is the most popular cemetery in New Orleans, so popular in fact that they have closed it off to the public, and now it is only accessed by guided tour groups. Even still, there are so many tour groups going through there all day every day that you can barely move or get a photograph without people in it.

Cemeteries in New Orleans are a popular tourist attraction anyway, but St. Louis Cemetery No. 1 is even more so due to the number of famous graves there.

This grave has been painted in a voodoo ritual

the famous grave of Marie Laveau

Nicholas Cage's tombstone

Omnia Ab Uno means "All from One"

The X's are a voodoo curse or hex

some graves that have not been restored

a rare table top grave