artesanías

Handicrafts from Antigua Guatemala Villages on Sale this Weekend

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Several times through the year the artisans from Antigua Guatemala set up booths to show case and sell their creations. Normally, they do it on the main square, the Plaza Mayor that we informally called Parque Central. This time though, the handicraft stands were set underneath the arched corridor of Palacio de los Capitanes. They … Read more

Leather Handicrafts from San Pedro Las Huertas

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This past weekend we had the opportunity to visit the artisan handicraft market that setup shop at Antigua Guatemala’s parque central, main square for you anglophones. As always, I took some time to talk to some of the artisan and that’s how I learned this leather handicrafts are produced in the village of San Pedro … Read more

Making Handicrafts at Antigua Guatemala’s Parque Central

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This is yet another popular vista at Parque Central, artisans making handicrafts to sell on the spot or on Calle del Arco. Often the artisans are Maya women, but sometimes you can also find artisans from all over the world as in this case. These women were so focus in building their necklaces and jewellery … Read more

Cucurucho Handicrafts

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Cucurucho Handicrafts by Rudy Girón

The fear of photography is real in Antigua Guatemala. More often I am finding signs which prohibit photography. That’s kind of ironic is you take a moment to consider the Antigua Guatemala is the most important tourist and travel destination in Central America. You might recall a sign from the Only in LAG category which … Read more

Guatemalan Ceramic Owls

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The traditional ceramic owls in La Antigua Guatemala are yellow, orange and brown as I have show you before, but more recently on Brilliant and Colorful Guatemala so these unusually looking tecolotes caught my attention. These ceramic owls get their distinctive paint job at one of the village around Lake Atitlán; San Antonio Palopó if … Read more

Colorful and Tiny Nativity Scenes

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Don’t you wish you can have one these adorable Guatemalan nacimientos (nativity scenes) in your own home for the next Christmas? In my never ending quest to share with you all the different artistic manifestations from Guatemala that I come across I preset you this video clip entitled Tejido audiovisual de Guatemala by Julio Dávila … Read more

Guatemalan Entrepreneurship: Avocado seed masks

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Often enough I am sharing with you examples how ingenious and creative Guatemalans are when confronted with adversity or simply day-to-day life little issues. Well, I have decided to inaugurate the Guatemalan Entrepreneurship category with these masks created from dried avocado seeds. Many people just throw away the avocado seeds while other “see” you can … Read more

Tuk Tuk Toy

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Believe it or not, the tuk tuk motorcycles which are used as short-run taxis, tourist police patrols units and grocery delivery vehicles are now part of the Guatemalan traditions and culture; so, now the three-wheeled motorized vehicles are showing up in unexpected places. In the pictures above however, the tuk tuk has its revenge against … Read more

El Carmen Handicrafts Market

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Visiting the El Carmen ruins folkart market is among the top things people do on the weekends and holidays in La Antigua Guatemala. Here’s a little secret. One of things on my to do list is to capture through time-lapse photography the contrast between the stark, almost monochromatic muted colors of the El Carmen ruins … Read more

Escaping to Another Era

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Michele Woodey already so eloquently described the emotions La Antigua’s ruins evoke. In her Antigua Abstracted #3 post she wrote: “These are places where episodes of history become entangled with our dreams- where stories and fables are as intricately woven together as the creeping vegetation that threatens to overwhelm the architecture itself.” Yet, the very people … Read more