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Here is an old Garifuna cemetery along an unpaved sandy beach road. One minute you are driving in the middle of a small rustic fishing Garifuna city and the next you are in a cemetery surounded by all these headstones expecting the unliving to rise and start walking towards your direction.

As you slowly drive into the cemetery during the day time, you just can't help but think to yourself "Wow cool an old cemetery" while at the same time taking quick look over your shoulder as you keep on driving on. It is a little more different once the sun goes down, at night you might be spooked out of your mind. How spooked you say? well lets just say that only your laundry man will know.

I wanted to take some photos of the burial grounds and stopped the car for a few minutes. The headstones were all weathered and beaten down which made for some good photos. A few meters away was the beautiful white sandy beach and bright blue Caribean sea. I was wondering of how many times has this cemtery survived being under water during the many yearly seasonal hurricanes and floods that torement this part of the world.

Garifuna people are desendents of escaped African slaves mainly from Nigeria. Many escaped from ships that sank off near the Caribean Islands, they mixed in with local Caribeans and other escaped slaves from the mainland. The majority now make their homes in the northwest part of Honduras. There are about 300,000 Garifuna people and 200,000 live in Hunduras. There is another big Garifuna community in Houston Texas