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Chicken Bus Terminal in Antigua Guatemala

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Chicken Bus Terminal in Antigua Guatemala BY RUDY GIRON

This photograph and many of the images I have shared during the last ten days were made while leading a very intense and comprehensive one-on-ne street photography workshop. We shot inside the market, the bus terminal, the municipal cemetery, on the streets of Antigua Guatemala and the Mayan village of Santa María de Jesús. We shot in the morning, afternoon and at night. As part of this comprehensive workshop we also covered Lightroom workflow and editing and camera settings for different photo styles and best lenses for street photography and street portraits. If you would like to bring up the level your photography book a comprehensive and intensive photography workshop with me. I will be glad to share everything I know.

Vintage Chicken Bus Inside a Coffee Plantation in Antigua Guatemala

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Often times I wonder why Guatemalans have this absurd fascination with the chicken buses, or camionetas as we call them here. I mean, we also have modern-looking buses and even double-decker buses with bus attendants and bathrooms in Guatemala. However, the majority of the public transportation still rides on top of these retired school buses … Read more

Fuego Volcano’s Fumarole Backdrop for Chicken Bus Near Antigua Guatemala

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Here’s the typical vista of a Guatemalan chicken bus, camioneta we call them here, en route to Antigua Guatemala. By the way, this road is known as Ruta 14, route 14, and in my opinion is one of the most scenic pieces of road in Guatemala. If you are visiting Guatemala, make sure you take … Read more

Chicken Bus Chronicles: El Ayudante

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Ayudante is title for the guy in the orange shirt. El ayudante, the helper or assistant has in reality many jobs and a meager salary. For starters he’s primary job is to help the chicken bus pilot; that’s where he takes his title. But he is also the fare collector, the usher, the carrier, the … Read more

Chicken Bus Chronicles: The Groceries

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Sometimes things are so obvious that one doesn’t mull over them; that’s the way things are and you accept it. While taking the shot of this basket with the day’s groceries bought at the market, a simple fact became crystal clear. I thought well this basket looks kind of heavy, I am glad to know … Read more

Chicken Bus Chronicles: DVD Players

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The world infamous chicken bus reinvents itself again. The chicken bus that was born out of a retired school bus from our neighbors from up north; a second life or recycling ( whatever you want to call it); transformed itself into a mass public transit bus for the rural areas of Guatemala. Well, the chicken … Read more

Chicken Bus Terminal in La Antigua Guatemala

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Certainly there are other kind of buses in Guatemala, so, please can someone explain it to me, what is the fascination that Guatemalan feel for the old-looking chicken bus? By the way, did I mention that you can now buy prints from any photo available at La Antigua Guatemala Daily Photo and in the process … Read more

Marimba Orquesta Chicken Bus Ave Lira

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Like Manolo said, with Marimba music as the background for many parties and celebrations around La Antigua Guatemala and the rest of the country, I can almost smell the pine needles under my feet and the tamales and ponche (fruit punch) in the air. Oh what memories… sometimes I even wish I could like this type of music. 🙁

Marimba Chicken Bus and Church of San Pedro

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Well, well, what we have here… what’s up with that, why are Guatemalans so enchanted with the infamous chicken bus. I mean what makes Guatemalans take on the crappy junk and retired school buses from up north and give them a second life as public transit chicken bus, mobile libraries chicken bus and now as a marimba orquesta mobile unit chicken bus.