Here’s your illustrated Spanish word of the day: Gato for cat. You would not believe the things I come across during the photo walks I lead around Antigua Guatemala. I mean, for instance today, I am sharing a photo of cat taking cover from the harsh sunlight in the side atrium of the former cathedral … Read more
Imagine living in town where everyday the temperate weather provides the conditions for flowers to be blooming all the time; a place where the temperature stays around 22ºC/72ºF for most of the day every single day of the year. Well, welcome to Antigua Guatemala. Participate in the Thanksgiving raffle for a chance to win a … Read more
Here’s a close-up look at vibrant fuchsia bracts of the bougainvillea climber plant; definitely the most popular flower plant found in the gardens of Antigua Guatemala. Notice that the actual flowers are tiny and are surrounded by brightly colored papery bracts. What’s your favorite bougainvillea color?
Here’s your illustrated Spanish word of the day: Bugambilea for Bougainvillea. Even though La Antigua Guatemala is known as “the city of the perpetual roses”. In my humble opinion, this slogan should be changed to “The City of the Perpetual Bougainvilleas.” Bougainvillea is a genus of thorny ornamental vines, bushes, or trees. The inflorescence consists … Read more
The slogan of Antigua Guatemala is “La ciudad de las perpetual rosas” which translate as “the city of the perpetual roses” more or less. However, I believe that bougainvillea flowers are found more often in gardens, above walls, on river banks, in coffee plantations, in the cemetery, et cetera. Literally, bougainvillea flowers are everywhere all … Read more
Jardín Antigüeño is also another series that needs to be awaken. Jardín Antigüeño is a photographic tour through the most often found flowers in the gardens of La Antigua Guatemala. La Antigua Guatemala is known as the Ciudad de las perpetuas rosas, the city of the perpetual roses. Well, surely you can find roses everywhere … Read more
Tomorrow the La Antigua Guatemala Daily Photo (LAGDP) will be two years old. About 744 consecutive daily photographs and descriptive narratives of a Spanish Colonial Town embedded between coffee plantations, flower farms and volcanoes. As a pre-celebration party, I am making available another desktop wallpaper for you computer (1600×1200 pixels) of a set of bougainvilleas … Read more
This is the kind of road the motorcycle riders arriving to La Antigua Guatemala may find. Even I would like to ride a Harley-Davidson chopper on this road… if it wasn’t for the other uncivilized drivers whom I would have to share the road with. I, like Woody Allen, don’t mind dying, I just don’t … Read more
This photo is needed to clarify a confusion about the coffee trees and their height. Nathalie from Sydney DP asked if coffee trees grow very tall in La Antigua Guatemala, while referring to this photograph which showed coffee trees and their shadow makers the gravilea trees around Antigua, San Pedro Las Huertas to be precise. I posted a Close-up photo of coffee plantation before to show the coffee bushes (tree could be considered an exaggeration) and the shadow trees known here a gravileas. So, to answer Nathalie’s questions, coffee trees (ed. bushes) do not grow very high; they can be harvest by Guatemalan farm workers on foot.
Believe it or not, the dry green river bed is El Pensativo River. The other day while driving on Calle Chipilapa, which takes you to La Ermita de la Santa Cruz Ruins, I saw this huge bougainvillea tree on the other side of El Pensativo River, dry now but soon it will have running water. I never seen a bougainvillea tree so big; my girlfriend and I saw a midget bougainvillea tree—about 1 meter in height— in Tapachula, Mexico.
What better way to show you the colors of the Eternal Spring of Antigua Guatemala than with the vibrant hues of the bougainvillea flowers growing out of pots on the rooftop of one of the houses. Take a photographic tour through the many posts of the bougainvillea flowers found in the archives.
As I have said many times before, we are very fortunate to have flowers in bloom all year long thanks to the ever-present temperate weather. Exotic flowers are affordable to take home, but we don’t to spend any money to enjoy the vibrant and rich colors of the flora of Guatemala as they are found … Read more
Verdurous walls covered with lush wall creepers or bougainvillea plants are quite common in the gardens of Antigua Guatemala. Take a photographic tour through Guateflora archives for an overview of the most common plants that can be found in the Antigua Guatemala.
Even though the slogan for La Antigua Guatemala is the city of the perpetual roses or as we say in Spanish, La ciudad de las perpetuas rosas, I truly believe bougainvillea flowers are what gives Antigua Guatemala its beautiful color palette; don’t you agree? Take a photographic tour through the many bougainvillea posts found in … Read more
