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Taiwan★ 4
Taiwan (Ghost Month)
Ghost Month is a festival honoring the spirits of the dead with ceremonies to appease hungry ghosts, involving various cultural activities.
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China (Tibet)★ 8
Tibet Sky Burials
Sky burials involve vulture feeding ceremonies as part of Tibetan Buddhist death philosophy. This sacred, sensitive practice is rarely promoted to tourists, but monastery visits and limited ceremony observation may be possible. Best visited May to October due to weather conditions.
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Egypt★ 6
Cairo (City of the Dead)
The City of the Dead is a vast necropolis where many residents live among tombs and mausoleums, offering a rare perspective on urban life related to death rituals in Cairo.
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Madagascar★ 7
Madagascar (Famadihana)
This "turning of the bones" ceremony involves exhuming ancestors and rewrapping them, a joyful cultural event reflecting unique Malagasy death customs.
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South Korea★ 3
South Korea (Fake Funerals)
This experience program allows participants to experience a mock funeral to reflect on life and death, a unique contemporary cultural practice.
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Austria★ 3
Austria (Hallstatt Bone House)
This site is known for its tradition of painted skulls, an intriguing part of local death customs.
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Austria★ 3
Vienna (Central Cemetery)
This vast cemetery features graves of famous composers and is one of Europe’s largest burial grounds, attracting visitors interested in music and cultural history.
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USA★ 4
New Orleans
New Orleans offers above-ground tombs, the culturally rich jazz funerals, and strong voodoo cultural influences. Visitors can enjoy cemetery tours, second line parades, and ghost tours reflecting the city’s unique relationship with death and the afterlife between October and May.
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Bolivia★ 4
Bolivia (Ñatitas Festival)
The Natitas Festival involves skull veneration where participants honor the dead with decorated skulls in vibrant ceremonies.
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