Lent Food: Plataninas
Basically, plataninas are green platano/plantains chips. Plantains are like bananas, but much bigger and with a unique flavor. Guatemalans eat platanos in …
Poporopos are Popcorn
As explained before, poporopos is the Guatemalan Spanish word for popcorn. Most other Spanish-speaking countries use palomitas. I believe Guatemala is the …
Guatemalan Spanish Words for Lent Food
Today we will begin our Spanish lesson with some very important Guatemalan Spanish words: Poporopos, Plataninas, Papalinas and Churros. Poporopos: This is …
Lent Food: Buñuelos
Just as in other celebrations, Lent has a food that is sold at the food stalls out side where velación, vigil, is …
Fresh Tropical Fruits Available Year Round
We are so fortunate in Antigua Guatemala to have a fresh plentiful supply of tropical fruits all year long. And quite inexpensive …
Fixing the roofs before the rains
Often we see people fixing their roof during the dry season to prepare for the six to seven months of rain that …
The Newly Renovated Iglesia de San Felipe de Jesús
It was almost a decade since this parish was last painted, the only gothic church in and around Antigua Guatemala. I will …
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 …
San Francisco El Grande Wall Revisited
Here’s another take on one of my favorite wall in Antigua Guatemala. If you’re in town, don’t miss this wall on the …
Only in LAG: Home Delivery of…
’nuff said!
Let The Photographers In for Lent and Holy Week
Just as cucuruchos and processions are the staple imagery of Lent and Holy Week in La Antigua Guatemala, so are the photographers …
Arches Inside Capuchina Ruins
My advice is to always carry a camera with you and I mean ALWAYS. You don’t know when you will get a …
Lent season decorations
It’s impossible to miss the Lent, Cuaresma we call it in Spanish, in Antigua Guatemala as you encounter decorations, shrines, carpets, vigils …
Lent Is Altar and Carpet Time
Lent is also the time for shrines, carpets, vigils and processions. Out of nowhere any of these things can appear anywhere and …
First Vigil of Lent in Antigua Guatemala
This is the first vigil of the Lent season with its traditional stalls of chicken sandwiches, the batido drink and other meals …
Let Lent Begin in Antigua Guatemala
With the Ash Wednesday religious ceremony begins the 40-day period known in Spanish as Cuaresma, Lent, which ends with Semana Santa, Holy …
Colourful Guatemalan Carnival Eggshells
Ordinarily, I begin by asking readers to recall their earliest memories to provide a context for corpocratic historians of the future… Could …
Flat TVs Are The New Trend Inside Camionetas
The never mind the lack of seat belts, comfortable seats, handicap access ramps, clean fuel burning engines or thread-less tires so long …
Freshly-cooked tortillas for breakfast, lunch and dinner
There’s nothing like on-the-spot-freshly-cooked tortillas to accompany your Guatemalan meals. If you grew up eating freshly-made tortillas, the aroma near a tortilleria …
Sunsets at Parque Central
Interesting enough, Parque Central or main plaza is a great place to not only watch people, but also to enjoy the light …
Clay Pottery for Sale
This wonderful clay pottery was brought all the way from Totonicapán; that’s near Xela in case you didn’t know, to be sold …
Silver Miner Costume at Central Park
This silver-painted miner is the most recent show I have seen at Central Park. People were fascinated by the frozen stand of …
Black and white of the Izote tree or yucca guatemalensis
The izote tree, yucca guatemalensis, is the Mesoamerican cousin of the yucca tree or Joshua tree and one of my favorite plants …
Details of the façade of the church of San Gaspar Vivar
Only when you get a close-up and pay attention to the details on the façade of the church you realise how baroque …
Fresh Tropical Fruits To Go
Everywhere in Guatemala you can find fresh fruit ready to go inside a transparent plastic bag. Often you can can these fruit …
The Voca People at Ermita de la Santa Cruz, Antigua
Last night was the presentation of Vocal People at Ermita de la Santa Cruz ruins, Antigua Guatemala’s concert venue, as part of …
10 Days of Cultural Events Were Inaugurated Last Night with the Paiz International Cultural Festival
The night of February 1 was chosen as the inauguration of XII Festival Internacional de Cultura Paiz to be held for ten …
Gorgeous Light Lovers Wanted!
Hurry, we only have a few more weeks of gorgeous light left before the rainy season begins. I wonder why Guatemala does …