Fresh Tropical Fruits Stand at Market in Antigua Guatemala
How can one not be grateful for all the fresh tropical fruits found year-round in the mercado of Antigua Guatemala, don’t your …
Antigua’s Market Fruit and Vegetable Stand
Please, do not attack this fruit and vegetable stand with your liquidiser. Your blender would probably work better at this tropical fruit …
Antigua’s market vegetable stand
Veggies and Lucky, originally uploaded by rudygiron. Antigua’s market days are Monday, Thursday and Saturday. Although, you can go to the market …
Crowded Flowers Stands the Day before All Saints Day
Every year October 31st is the best day for flowers vendors as the sales skyrocket for the entire week as everyone is …
New Textiles Stand Stand Near La Escalonia
Since the Municipal government has forbidden the ambulant vendors in all the parks of Antigua Guatemala, including the world-famous Parque Central, vendors …
Sights of Our Times — Queue at The Veggie Stand
Queues are part of this new normality. Keeping a healthy physical distance, 1.5 meter at a least, is part of our new …
Pandemic Sights: Farmer’s Market Stand
Not everything is bad about the Cover-19 pandemic. Farmer’s Markets and local fruit and veggie stands are popping up everywhere. For instance, …
Mercado Municipal Vistas: Pop-Up Fruits and Vegetables Stand
In the beef, pork and fish corridors of the municipal market of Antigua Guatemala one can often find pop-up stands selling mostly …
Mercado Municipal Vistas: Black Tortilla Stand
In the back of the market, towards the bus terminal end, there are quite a few tortilla booths, many preparing black tortillas …
Vegetable stand at the Santa María de Jesús market
Market days or Días de mercado in Santa María de Jesús fall on Tuesday, Friday and Sunday, although you can find vendors …
Beans and grains booth inside the Antigua Guatemala market
Look at all the different kinds of beans available at this grains stand inside the mercado of Antigua Guatemala. The same can …
Market Sights — Niña Maya and Strawberries
Push and pull, push and pull, slowly but with all the strength of her little muscles this little girl was able to …
Market Vs Supermarkets in Antigua Guatemala
Here are two different approaches to the distribution and sale of food. On one hand, the mercado is an agglomeration of small …
Guatemalan Christmas Decorations Market Stand
Here’s a sampling of the most popular Christmas decorations used in Guatemala. How many Christmas decorations do you recognise or which one …
Guatemalan Beans and Maize Stand at the Mercado, Antigua Guatemala
We are what we eat. So Guatemalans are made from a big proportion of maize, beans, fruits and vegetables. Of course, beans …
Mango Season in Antigua Guatemala
As I mentioned a few weeks ago, while some people in the northern hemisphere are still suffering the struggles of a harsh …
Guatemalan Sweets Stand
I posted a photo showing some of the Guatemalan sweets on November 1. Today, I am showing you the booth of the …
The Computer Enters the Guatemalan Market
There’s no coming back. I was surprise to see a computer being used among all the fresh produce in the mercado (market) …
Guatemalan Market Fruit Stand
WANTED: Blenders are needed to process all the tropical fruits in the market stand above into licuados, smoothies and milkshakes. Experience is …
SAT Office in La Antigua Guatemala
Well, you may be wondering what SAT office means. Behind this placid view of this government building hides one of the reason why Guatemala is so poor; a beggar really if we consider that Guatemala begs money for road repairing, road building, new modern national identification card, fertilizers, schools, libraries and the list goes on and on. The picture above is the local office of the Superintendencia de Administración Tributaria, SAT for short and the equivalent of the IRS.
Selling Cell Phones in the La Antigua’s Market
The transnational Spanish cell phone company Movistar enters the humble Guatemalan market; following the example set by Domino’s Pizza. So now, you can go to el mercado (market) of La Antigua Guatemala for your vegetables, fruits, spices, flowers, dishes, charcoal and cell phones. These two girls, with Telefónica Movistar t-shirts, were selling the cell phones for Q130/USD$18 with Q100 of airtime and your own cellphone number; not bad all.
La Antigua’s Old-style Mercado Stand
Diversify is very sound advice for any business. Patsy, who loves chicken, would say, don’t put all the eggs in one basket. So, it is no surprise to find stands, like the one pictured above, in La Antigua Guatemala’s market which sells all kinds of items. This photograph gives an idea for a new easy game (we haven’t got a game for a while) for this weekend.
Christmas colors from the Antigua Guatemala’s Market
Red is the most prominent color around Christmas time. You can see it in the many people who dress up like Santa …
Antigua’s market vendor
Antigua’s market vendor, originally uploaded by rudygiron. Supermarket is the theme for today in 25 daily city blogs. Antigua does not have …
Fruits and jelly stand
Here is another fruit stand in Antigua’s market. Most vegetable and fruits stands are owned by Guatemala’s indigenous people. The mayority of …
A look at Antigua’s market
Veggie stands, originally uploaded by rudygiron. Although this is not a very good shot, it shows of one the areas of the …
For Ever-present Flowers and Smiles Come to Guatemala
So, how are you enduring this harsh Winter season thus far? Don’t suffer any longer, pack your bags and come and enjoy the smiles and flowers available even now in Guatemala.
Great Guatemala Layover Photo Walks
Recently I organized a layover photo walk for a couple from Indiana. This included the arrangement of private transportation pick up at …
What Makes Guatemalans Hot? Part 2.
Once again, there you go again thinking I am going to share with you the recipe for Guatemalannes… wrong. However, I can …
Christmas Decorations Booth at El Mercado
This is what a typical Christmas decoration stand looks like in the market of Antigua Guatemala. Everything decoration you see here is …
Guatemalan Food: Caldo de Pata
The caldo de patas stew or stock is made with muscles and bones from the lower legs of either pork or cow, …
Colorful Guatemalan Town Fair Booth
This image of a stand of the typical Guatemalan sweets was captured in the little market on the main square of San …
Guatemalan Fruit Punch Recipe
Even though you can find ponche, fruit punch, year round in Guatemala and no town fair is missing the stands selling ponche …
Guatemalan Town Fair Pizza
We get a lot of things from our neighbors from the big white north like remittances, retired chicken buses, junk cars, and …
Guatemalan Cuisine: Tortillas con Carne
Tortillas con carne could be the Guatemalan equivalent of the Mexican taco. Tortilla con carne is basically a piece of charbroiled steak …
Colorful Guatemala
Colorful Guatemala, I tell you, colorful Guatemala! Si ni los mismos guatemaltecos logramos entender la complejidad cultural en la que vivimos… —Ale …
Open Schools: Computer Workshops
Oh there is a revolution brewing down South in Meso-America. This revolution will not be televised. This revolution will be streamed! Let …
Guatemalan Fruits: Nisperos or Misperos, that’s the question
After MO confirmed the spelling for Misperos which Nadia had used in reference to this yellow fruit known in the English language …
What Makes Guatemalans Hot?
There you go again thinking I am going to give you the recipe for Guatemalanness… wrong. But, I can do share what …
Fresh Produce at the Farmers’ Fair
The fresh produce available at the Farmers’ Fair and at the market are so irresistible. As you can see in the picture …
Cell Phone Pics: The couple
The cellular telephone industry is one of the fastest growing industries and they just broke a new record for Latin America: 10 million 150 thousand users or the equivalent of 75% of the population has now an “active cellphone”. The key word here is: Active. This makes Guatemala one of the most connected countries in Latin America. (Source: Guatemala bate récord de usuarios de telefonía móvil at elPeriódico {ES}).
Guatemalan Fair: The Charcoal-broiled Meat Booth
The charcoal-grilled meat stall has gotten so hip that you now find it not only in fairs, but around La Antigua Guatemala in parks, markets and sidewalks. Back in February 20th, 2007, I showed you an extremely popular stall of grilled meats in Tanque de la Unión park from a bird’s eye point of view. In the picture above, chicken and beef steak were being offered along broiled potatoes. Q10 ($1.25) for a portion of the meat of your choice, chirmol (read the side note), guacamol and potatoes; definitely, not too bad of a deal.
Palm Flower Arrangements for Palm Sunday
Here’s the snapshot of a palm flower arrangements stand taken in the La Antigua Guatemala’s market on Saturday prior to Palm Sunday …
Selling Tortillas on the Streets
The informal economy is the basis for making a living for most Guatemalans. That is why you have shoe-shining boys, orchids sellers, …