Getting ready for All Souls’ Day

Photos by Tonee Despojo and Junjie Mendoza

Flower vendors at Freedom Park in the Carbon Market expect brisk sales as All Souls’ Day and All Saints’ Day draw near (CDN PHOTO/TONEE DESPOJO).

Flower vendors at Freedom Park in the Carbon Market expect brisk sales as All Souls’ Day and All Saints’ Day draw near (CDN PHOTO/TONEE DESPOJO).

Flower vendors (above and right photos) at Freedom Park in the Carbon Market expect brisk sales as All Souls’ Day and All Saints’ Day draw near (CDN PHOTO/TONEE DESPOJO).

Candle vendors at the Freedom Park are also expecting more customers because candles, aside from flowers, are among the most in demand commodities at this time of the year when the living usually lights candles in the tombs of their dearly departed to remember them and to pay their respects to them (CDN PHOTO/TONEE DESPOJO).

A family queues at the Cebu South Bus Terminal and patiently waits for their turn to ride the bus home to their town in southern Cebu, where they can bond with their kin and visit the resting places of their dearly departed (CDN PHOTO/JUNJIE MENDOZA).

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