Details from Finca Filadelfia Coffee Plantation
Even a drain cover from Finca Filadelfia coffee plantation looks interesting and appealing to the eye, at least to my eye, how …
Inside Finca Filadelfia Coffee Plantation
I have said it before and I am repeating again here, both Panchoy and Almolonga valleys are surrounded by three volcanoes and …
Breakfast Buffet at Finca Filadelfia
Among the zillion things you can do inside Finca Filadelfia, you can also have breakfast and lunch buffets on the weekends. This …
Recycling Bins in Finca Filadelfia
Slowly but surely recycling is becoming a reality in Antigua Guatemala. Can anybody explain me what is the Guatemalan fascination with toneles …
Sun-drying Coffee at Finca Filadelfia
Yesterday I showed you a close-up of the coffee fruit being dry by the warm rays of the sun in the eternal …
Sun-drying Coffee Fruits in Finca Filadelfia
These delightful fruit you see above are coffee fruits being dry after they have been hand picked from the coffee bushes. You …
Finca Washbasins and Water Tanks
Don’t ask me, but how did the venerable utilitarian pila (water tank) and lavadero (washbasin) became decorations elements or design accents? In …
Panoramic Vistas of Antigua Guatemala from Aldea El Hato
Today I share with you the view of Finca Filadelfia and the village of San Felipe de Jesús and the municipality of …
Repurposing Colonial Water Tanks and Sinks
How do you turn a living city into a shopping mall? Well, unregulated businesses will pay top money for real estate and …
Central America’s EDITUS live in Antigua Guatemala on International Jazz Day
One of the best representatives of the jazz in Central America, Editus, had a show tonight in Finca Filadelfia on International Jazz …
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 …
New Take on the Gothic Church of San Felipe de Jesús
Here’s my second attempt at capturing the new looks of the façade of the gothic church in San Felipe de Jesús, the …
Guatemalan Food Sampler: Salpicón, Chojín and Guacamol
I plate like this will set you back Q20/$2.50 in the main square of San Felipe de Jesús, a great locale for …
Visiting the Motherland never gets old
The recently anointed “abuelito” to my first born, took us three (my girlfriend, my daughter, and I) to Finca Filadelfia where we …
Guatemalan Finquero Breakfast
The finquero word could be translated as the plantation or ranch owner. So a Finquero desayuno, breakfast, would be one that normally …
La Antigua City Tour Bus
There’s a new tourist circuit bus service in La Antigua Guatemala. The two-hour tour circuit takes you through the main landmarks and …
Recicladora Antigua – Reduce Reutiliza Recicla
There are many recycling approaches that people use in Guatemala. Interesting enough, at first glance it may seem that there are NO …
Antigua Guatemala Rainy Season What, When?
This year the rainy season has been fabulous so far. Crystal clear skies and sunny mornings to mid-afternoons with some light rains …
Jogging Around Antigua Guatemala
If you are the kind of person that enjoys jogging or riding a bicycle, the roads around Antigua Guatemala provide an excellent …
Recycling Around Antigua Guatemala
Often I have shared with you the different recycling programs available around Antigua Guatemala. There are many recycling approaches that people use …
Theme Day: Postcard-worthy Panoramic Vista
Just yesterday, Zach was asking what is your favorite viewing spot of the Antigua Guatemala area? Well, I don’t have just one. …
Flying over Antigua Guatemala
Flying through the air you can see all through the valley at Antigua Canopy Tours which is located at Finca Filadelfia. Seven …
Secluded Sunday Lunch Surprise
On sundays there is a restaurant open on the top of the mountain within Finca Filadelfia. The food is delicious, and the …
Panoramic View from El Tenedor del Cerro
The restaurant located on the best spot of Santo Domingo del Cerro goes by the name of Tenedor del Cerro. The views …
Coffee Tours in Antigua Guatemala
Coffee spawns a new industry around Antigua Guatemala: Coffee tours. It was only a matter of time before the coffee plantations open …
Antigua’s Photo Club Coffee Exhibition
Saturday, September 25, 2010 was the successful inauguration of the photo exhibition “Con sabor y aroma a café” by the members of …
Calle de la Tostaduria
I want to live on Calle de la Tostaduría. Do you know why? Club Fotográfico de Antigua Photo Exhibition: Once again I …
Guatemalan Robocops in Antigua Guatemala
The Guatemalan antiriot police unit provided me with much needed images for my photographic bank. This in particular turned out to work …
Guatemalan Vegetables Bouquet
I found this bouquet near the juice bar at the breakfast buffet in Finca Filadelfia. It looks like a creative chef and …
Coffee Pickers from Antigua Guatemala
Today I took a photo tour with other members of Club Fotográfico de Antigua inside Finca Filadelfia. The idea behind the tour …
Forged Metal Door Knocker
How can one find beauty in such a rustic forged metal knocker? I don’t know, but the instant I saw it I …
Espresso Xing Sign at Cafetenango
One of the things I enjoy very much of visiting my dear friend Pascu, manager of Antigua Canopy Tours, is having a …
It’s Coffee Time!
In La Antigua Guatemala we are so lucky to be able to get excellent coffee just about everywhere. Cafetenango in Finca Filadelfia …
The War of the Worlds
Play this song before continuing: We know now that in the early years of the twentieth century this world was being watched …
Guatemalan Coffee Trivia
Here are some random facts, bits and trivia about Guatemalan coffee I have been collecting for a while: The average price for …
Birds-Eye View of Nature
Antigua Canopy Tours isn’t just about the unique experience of gliding… it’s about gliding through a tropical rainforest or cloud forest canopy. …
Constructing a Canopy Course
“We could see the topography was just perfect,” Victor Gallo confidently asserted. Victor Gallo is the expert Antigua Canopy Tours hired to …
Pick Your Poison
Just how daring are you? There are two zipline circuits offered by Antigua Canopy Tours. The first is Forest Express: six distinct …
Gliding Through the Treetops
Dangling like a spider on a web, he slightly rocks back and forth in his harness as he awaits the “okay” to go. At the cue, he lifts his legs, bends his knees… and takes off, plunging into a tunnel of thick, forest foliage. A whirring sound follows in close pursuit as he soars above the sloping forest floor, suspended meters – at times more than 100 meters – above the ground. To onlookers below, he looks like nothing more than a fragile doll that is somehow managing to cling to a nearly invisible cable as he races across the treetops.
House Inside Coffee Plantation
Besides the Canopy Zip Lines tours you can find at Finca Filadelfia, in Antigua Guatemala, there are all kinds of activities to …
Canopy Zip Line Tour in Antigua Guatemala
Boy oh boy, the things I do to bring you first-hand, eye-witness coverage daily from La Antigua Guatemala. I’ve done the unthinkable, …
Close-up at a coffee plantation
Coffee trees do not grow very tall and that is why they are easy to harvest. Here you see coffee trees which …
Field of lettuces and vegetables
Antigua Guatemala is surrounded by large farms (fincas in Spanish) and coffee plantations. This photo was taken only two kilometers from Antigua. …
Antigua Birding
Perhaps it is the fact that La Antigua Guatemala is surrounded by so many coffee plantations and fincas (farms) as well as …