Sights of Our Times: Trucks Used As Public Transportation
As I have mention before, public transportation was forbidden at the start of the pandemic Covid-19 in March 16 throughout Guatemala. People …
Tuk Tuk Fried Chicken Food Truck
There you have it, the first tuk tuk food truck has appeared in Antigua Guatemala. It was only a matter of time …
Consecutive Day 3649 — Food Trucks
As real estate spaces become prohibited expensive in Antigua Guatemala, many have opted for the food truck option. I wonder if soon …
Why Are Police Patrol Cars Pick-Up Trucks in Guatemala?
Here’s your illustrated Spanish word of the day: Policía or Police. If you have ever wonder why police cars in Guatemala are …
Food Truck in Antigua Guatemala
Some people might claim this is the first food truck in Antigua Guatemala, but that is not true, since there are quite …
Tree and Truck in San Gaspar, Antigua Guatemala
One of the things I enjoy the most about street photography is the strange things one gets to photograph. I hadn’t noticed …
Classic Chevy Truck in Antigua Guatemala
In my humble opinion, classic vehicles look so good in the streets of Antigua Guatemala. Honest, I am so attracted to classic …
Lunch Served from a Pick-Up Truck
I have said it many times before. Pick-up trucks are THE most popular vehicle in Guatemala, and quite possibly in Central America. …
Moto trucks are the new utility vehicles in Antigua Guatemala
I don’t want to call names or anything like that, but I must say there’s an imperialistic country the north of Guatemala …
Guatemalan Police Patrol Trucks
Police patrol trucks, really? I am sure that’s a normal question asked when people are told that all police patrol units in …
The Recycling Truck of Antigua Guatemala
Recycling the recycling truck of La Antigua Guatemala. Keep reading and I promise the previous sentence will make sense. My dear green …
Daily life vista from Antigua Guatemala: Traditional Ice Cream Vendor
In less than a year all the traditional ice carts found in Antigua Guatemala have transformed into colorful buses and trucks. Take a photographic tour through the many ice cream carts found in the posts I have shared with you thus far. Have fun!
Colorful Traditional Ice Cream Carts
Slowly but surely, all the traditional ice cream carts have been transforming into trucks, colorful buses, and pull man buses. Follow the …
Sights of Our Times — Motorcycles and bicycles are the preferred vehicles during the pandemic.
Since mid June automobiles and trucks can only circulate every other day if the license plate number is even or odd and …
Sights of Our Times — Face Masks and Tuk Tuk Bars
Face masks are obligatory to use outdoors in Guatemala at present time. I imagine it is the same, more or less, all …
Remembrance of the Earthquake of February 4th, 1976
The only surviving arch at Iglesia de La Recolección was a symbol of Antigua Guatemala ruins for many years. The 1917 and …
Water service issues in Antigua Guatemala
This past weekend Antigua Guatemala suffered through the lack of the water service. In fact, this municipal administration has had so much …
Google Maps Street View is finally capturing the streets of Antigua Guatemala
You heard it here first. Google Maps is about to start photographing every street of La Antigua Guatemala with its 360° cameras …
Mayan Boy Guarding The Colorful Textiles
This street portrait of a Maya boy guarding a truck-load of Mayan textiles was captured during a recent Antigua Photo Walk where …
Things To Do in Antigua Guatemala — A Different Coffee Tour
De La Gente NGO has put together a different and more down-to-earth coffee tour by involving the small plot farmers who belong …
Poinsettias Deliveries
For being such a tiny country Guatemala, it tops some lists, not all bad either. For instance, Guatemala is a top producer …
Juices and Smoothies Lovers Paradise
La Antigua Guatemala is the heaven on Earth for those who love juices, smoothies or licuados with an ever present supply of …
Keeping the Banana Republic Alive
One of the benefits of having a Banana Republic (not the clothing store, but the real thing!) is the tremendous amount of …
Ambulant Watermelon Vendor from Antigua Guatemala
Slowly, many ambulant vendors are upgrading to delivering their wares on vehicles, from motor bicycle trucks to small pick up trucks as …
Ubi’s Asian Mixed Ceviche
Certainly the only dishes that you can find everywhere you go in Guatemala are Ceviche and Chow Mein. That, in my humble …
Fruit and Vegetable Ambulant Vendors
As mentioned before, if we are what we eat, then this is what Guatemalans are made of. The fruits and vegetables in …
Parking Space Reservation Object
Parking spaces or rather the lack of parking spaces is among the most challenging problems that Antigua Guatemala is facing right now. …
Colorful Guatemalan Fundraising
If you want to do street photography you have to be quick and be ready at all times because you never know …
Breakfast Time
The other day I found this typical Guatemalan stamp: the trash collectors having breakfast inside the trash collecting truck and the chuchos …
Guatemalan Trash Collectors
One of the most important goals of the Daily Photo community is to show how different or similar daily life can be …
Bubble
Awakening The morning of your first life: You arise, awestruck by the dream. The air is poignant with mystery and promise. Golden …
Marimba Close-Up
Not much to say about the marimba except it’s Guatemala’s national instrument. But, did you know the chromatic marimba was developed in …
Speed Bumps with Proper Names
Exactly one week ago, a few meters from where this photo was taken, two young women were waiting for the bus when …
Pope John Paul II Sculpture
What’s the relationship between Santo Hermano Pedro de Betancourt and Pope John Paul II you might be asking? Simple. Santo Hermano Pedro …
Changing a light bulb
How many people are required to change a light bulb? a whole crew and a truck with basket if the light bulb …
Ubi’s Ceviche
Last week Jonathan Gold from LA Weekly and Evan Kleinman host of KCRW’s Good Food program did a review of La Cevicheria, …
1773 Guatemala Earthquake Time Capsule
An earthquake struck Guatemala on July 29, 1773 and had an estimated epicentral intensity magnitude of 7.5 Mi. It was followed by …
Daredevil in Antigua Guatemala
The things one must do to earn a living. 🙁 So what’s the guy doing all the way up there? Good question …
Antigua’s First Recycling Program
A few weeks ago I introduced you to the recycling truck of La Antigua Guatemala and hi-lighted the fact that it runs …
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 …
Proyecto Biodiesel Antigua Guatemala
This is what I shared with you before about the Antigua’s Biodiesel Project: Antigua Guatemala is full of Quixotes who do not …
Guatemalan Weekend Fashion
The people from Guatemala City are known as capitalinos; residents of the Capital city. Women from Guatemala City would be capitalinas. La …
Guarding The Coke
Guatemala is a gun-crazy country. Everywhere you look there are men with guns. There are even signs forbidding to carry the naked …
Stop Violence Against Women the World Over
Se empieza cediendo con las palabras. —Esperanza, mi novia We begin to yield with words. —Esperanza, my girlfriend Psychology 101: we begin …
A Day Among the Giant Kites of Sumpango
What can I say, today was a day with lots of ups and downs. I am too tired tonight to give all …
Produce Delivery
I know that one can go every day to the mercado, market, in La Antigua Guatemala for fresh produce and that if …
The UNIMOG Hog
What a beast. The journey of “flying through the forest” with Antigua Canopy Tours begins with a ride in the unique UNIMOG, …
Theme Day: Big
127 cities around the world orchestrated a global effort to show the different manifestations of the concept of BIG. I could have …
Local Bottled Water Station Hunapu
In Guatemala exists a near monopoly of bottled water called Salvavidas; surely you remember the photo of the pile 5-gallon jugs known …
New Traffic Police Officers
Fortunately, La Antigua Guatemala is still mostly a pedestrian town, but it gets its share of vehicular traffic and before it gets …
Horseback Riding Through Town
Whenever you come across people riding horses or donkeys over the cobblestone streets of La Antigua Guatemala you feel like you are …
Fuel Home Delivery in La Antigua Guatemala
Other colonial measurements still in use in present-day Guatemala are: Una mano (one hand or five of anything), un manojo (a bunch), una libra (a pound; this one may hurt many of you, but for sure, the civilized world now uses the kilo), una picopada (a truckload), una fila de frances (a row of french rolls), una arroba (@ or 25 pounds) un quintal (100 pounds), una cuerda (a cord equals 1/6 of city block), una medida (a measurement of whatever fits inside a small can or basket), una penca de banano (that’s a banana cluster), et-cetera or basically that’s what I can remember right now. I am sure the Guatemalans visitors will share other colonial measurements being used in Guatemala. There was a recent article about colonial measurement in Prensa Libre’s Revista Domingo under the title of Costumbres que pesan {ñ}.
Which Way to Turn?
Here’s a hypothetical question for you. In Guatemala, who has the right of way among these options: pedestrian, bicycle, motorcycle, car, bus, truck, eighteen-wheeler truck? If you plan to visit Guatemala, you must know the answer before you arrive.
What’s killing La Antigua Guatemala
The cobblestone streets of La Antigua Guatemala were originally designed for horses and horse-carriages. So, it is no wonder that even light vehicles, like cars, create a lot of damage to the streets which, therefore, need constant repairing. Now you can imagine that huge and heavy trucks like the ones pictured above not only damage the streets, but the foundation of the houses and the city itself.
Don Quijote in Antigua Guatemala
In the first decade of 1600s, one ingenious Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra set out to write a humorous tale about a tall, …
Cobblestone Street Worker
Cobblestone streets are yet another characteristic of La Antigua Guatemala’s life-style (see photos 1, 2, 3). They are hard on the automobiles, …
Guatemala’s favorite vehicle
For some reason, mini trucks are Guatemala’s favorite vehicle. Toyota and Nissan are the preferred brands in Guatemala. What would you say …
Exotic flowers and plants for you!
I posted a photo on June 6th with some of these exotic flowers in a truck. Now, I get the chance to …
Exotic flowers for exotic Lu!
Exotic flowers for exotic Lu!, originally uploaded by rudygiron. The slogan of this blog says that Antigua has flower farms, but I …