Weekend Vistas At Calle del Arco
On the weekends and holidays, Calle del Arco is turned into a pedestrian path. Honest, I don’t understand why they don’t make …
Driest Rainy Season Ever in Antigua Guatemala
This a typical vista during the dry season, normally November through April. This year however, this is the sort of vista one …
Tempering Milk Chocolate and White Chocolate
I was fortunate that they were tempering chocolate while I was at Choco Museo making some photos about the process of making …
Dark Chocolate, Milk Chocolate and White Chocolate, What’s Your Favourite?
Basically, chocolate comes in three flavours, dark chocolate, usually 70% cacao liquor or more; milk chocolate, quite possibly the most popular version …
Traditional Maya Grounding of Cocoa Beans
Here’s your illustrated Spanish word of the day: Molcajete or mortar and pestle. So how did the Maya and Mexica grounded their …
Did you know that Guatemala is the cradle of chocolate?
The birthplace for chocolate is Guatemala, which is the heartland of the Mayan world. Chocolate means bitter drink in Nahualt, that’s the …
Portón of La Antigua Guatemala
Here’s your illustrated Spanish word of the day from Antigua Guatemala: Portón or gate, or large door. It’s been a while since …
Cellular Towers Inside Coffee Plantations
Worry not about being unplugged while touring the coffee plantations around La Antigua Guatemala. In fact, soon you will have 4G connectivity …
Green Coffee Berries
Here’s your Spanish word of the day: Baya or berry. That’s right coffee berries is the proper term because, well, coffee are …
Capturing The Arch of Santa Catalina
El Arco de Santa Catalina has become the identifying landmark of La Antigua Guatemala. Do you know what the original purpose of …
Guatemalan Cookies: Champurradas
Champurrada is the closest thing to cookies for everyone. They are sweet, tasty, crunchy and inexpensive. Champurradas are flat sweet bread found …
Salty or Sweet Granizadas?
Here’s your Guatemalan Spanish word or the day: Granizadas, that’s shaved ice. Granizadas are just as popular as helados, ice cream, in …
Portraits of Strangers: The Modern Traveler
Have iPad, Will Travel! I imagine only few of you will understand the meaning of the statement above. Now, can you guess …
Mi Antigua Es Color
Here’s your Spanish word of the day: Etiqueta for tag and hashtag. We now live in a hashtag world or should I …
Guatemalan Fruits: Banana passionfruit
I wonder how many variations of the passion fruit we have in Guatemala. Let’s count the obvious ones: Granadilla, Chirimoya, Maracuyá, and …