Enjoy Craft Beers and Volcano Vistas Around Antigua Guatemala
Here’s your illustrated Guatemalan Spanish word of the day: Sibarita is a combination of sybarite, epicure, gourmet and foodie plus a taste of the …
Here’s your illustrated Guatemalan Spanish word of the day: Sibarita is a combination of sybarite, epicure, gourmet and foodie plus a taste of the …
After having covered the Ecoleña fuel briquette as an alternative for the leña (firewood) I decided to ask around what kind of …
It’s been a while since I posted something in the Vegetarian category. I can honestly say that nowadays it is easier to …
I read this tweet about the Earth Hour (Hora del Planeta): @AndyStalman: Mas que apagar las luces habría que encender las conciencias! …
I have always believe that Green should be the color of Guatemala; green should be the flag and all other national iconography …
I spent four months in La Antigua before I finally ventured to Mesón Panza Verde, one of the most renowned restaurants in …
First of all, my apologies to all those masochist Guatemalans who live abroad and visit this humble site to get their daily …
Although I think green mangoes can be found in Guatemala all year round, I believe they are better when in the mangoes …
We all live in a yellow house Yellow house, yellow house We all live in a yellow house Yellow house, yellow house …
Twice before I have mentioned that fences are alive around Antigua. Here you can see two coffee plantation, one each side of …
AntiguaDailyPhoto.com began on May Day 2006 with the goal of sharing daily life imagery from the little town of Antigua Guatemala, embedded …
If you have follow the daily updates from AntiguaDailyPhto you may know that I enjoy taking the most innocent and harmless photograph …
Guatemalan chiles rellenos used to be stuffed chillis, normally guaque chilli, bell pepers, jalapeño, depends mostly on what is on season and …
As mentioned before, if you’re looking for flower and plant nurseries, then head over to San Miguel Dueñas where it seems as …
There are many recycling approaches that people use in Guatemala. Interesting enough, at first glance it may seem that there are NO …
Green should be the color that identifies Guatemala more than any other. When you’re flying into Guatemala you know you have arrived …
I am sorry to bring the sad news to you on a “Friday the 13th.” but as we say in Spanish, “Al …
Often I have shared with you the different recycling programs available around Antigua Guatemala. There are many recycling approaches that people use …
Among the most popular foods found for dinner in Christmas Eve and during Christmas are tamales colorados (red tamales), tamales negros (black …
RWOrange put together a very comprehensive list of the restaurants and food I have covered in AntiguaDailyPhoto in Chowhound. Here’s the list …
Recycling the recycling truck of La Antigua Guatemala. Keep reading and I promise the previous sentence will make sense. My dear green …
On my way to lunch I caught all the Central Park photographers taking a break from the their photo-taking profession. Tourism has …
Pentas are among the most beautiful and prolific flowers in jardín antigüeño. In the gardens of La Antigua Guatemala you can be …
A while back I tease those crazy Guatemalan who have decided to live abroad (you know who you are) with a photo …
Today’s entry marks the 1000 consecutive daily pages of La Antigua Guatemala Daily Photo. And I thought I wasn’t going to last …
Atol blanco is one of the most emblematic drinks of the Guatemalan Cuisine. Very few meals or drinks can define or identify …
As of 22 hours local time of Sunday 4th of November, Guatemala’s Electoral Supreme Tribunal or Tribunal Supremo Electoral (TSE) in Spanish has declared the Socal-Democrat Alvaro Colom as the new elected president of Guatemala.
As beautiful, cosmopolitan, antique and modern as it is La Antigua Guatemala, many people choose to live in one of the surrounding villages that belong to the municipio (county) of La Antigua Guatemala. There are many reasons for this decision which range from the economics, ‘real guatemalan experience’, or simply to live in a more natural and greener environment.
It is official: The California avocado if from La Antigua Guatemala. I had mentioned a couple of times the antigüeños are known as Panzas Verdes (green bellies) because of all the avocados they eat (see trivia 2) and that one Wilson Popenoe took the antigüeño avocado to California (see trivia 3).
Once again, La Antigua Guatemala Daily Photo is participating in the theme day of the Daily Photo community. This time the theme is about the color red. Here you can see the Compañía de Jusús building under care of the Cooperación Española which is huge red building; one full block to be specific. This building has had many uses through history, like the home of Bernal Díaz del Castillo, home to the Jesuits of Central America in colonial times, thus its name, and more recently it houses a public library, culture center under the administration of Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional. You can see the big entrance of the building, the interior gardens and arches and one the side wall of the ruins. I decided to photograph this building because it’s the biggest red thing in La Antigua Guatemala, but I was lucky to have a red motorcycle and a red jeep enter the viewfinder at the moment I snapped the shot; how lucky, indeed.
“Chevere” is a Venezuelan Spanish word which means cool, fine, excelent, okay, just to mention a few of its meaning. Well, about the origin of the chevere word, I don’t know; perhaps it is not even Venezuelan. Nonetheless, the word is understood and used in Central America.
In Guatemala, a company of hot dogs decided to use as its name in the late seventies or early eighties. The company did things right and it was a total hit and the Chevere brand became almost as omnipresent as Coca Cola, Pepsi and the Gallo Beer. It was everywhere.
The house where my girlfriend (Esperanza), our three cats (Lolita, Camilo and Tito) and I live has windows facing south and west. …
La Antigua Guatemala is based on the time-tested Spanish grid of Streets and Avenues (see this map to get an idea). Streets …
Coffee trees do not grow very tall and that is why they are easy to harvest. Here you see coffee trees which …
Palo de Izote is a relative of the Yucca Tree. It is present in almost all gardens and fences here and everywhere …