Enjoy Sunshine and Gardens Everyday in Antigua Guatemala
Even during the rainy season that spans from May through early November, we get to enjoy sunshine bathed evergreen gardens with flowers …
Organic Wall or Vertical Garden in San Gaspar Vivar
You can find this vertical garden wall in the village of San Gaspar Vivar, about 3 kms from the heart of Antigua …
Lush and Lavish Gardens in Antigua Guatemala
Evergreen gardens in and around La Antigua Guatemala are one of the benefits of the 6-month long rainy season. Honestly, I never …
Antigua Gardens: Verdant Walls
Verdurous walls covered with lush wall creepers or bougainvillea plants are quite common in the gardens of Antigua Guatemala. Take a photographic …
Antigua Gardens: Lush and Serene
The calming nature of a green gardens with the murmur of running fountain make for very peaceful and relaxing atmospheres, don’t you …
Antigua Gardens: Vertical Succulent Garden
Antigua Guatemala is full with lush gardens. In fact, along with colonial color palette and the fountains found everywhere, I believe the …
Enjoy the lush gardens and patios of Antigua Guatemala
Evergreen gardens and vegetation in and around La Antigua Guatemala is, of course, one of the benefits of the 6-month long rainy …
Guarding The Garden Areas of Parque Central
Follow the white rabbit to » Guatemalan Faces at Antigua Guatemala’s Main Square.
You could be enjoying the sunshine and gardens of Antigua Guatemala during Winter
What are you waiting for? This is what winters look like in Antigua Guatemala.
The Gardeners of Antigua Guatemala
Here’s another entry to my street portrait series. This time I share with you the portrait of the jardinero, gardener, of the …
Guatemalan Ceramic Garden Heaters
This type ceramic heaters are used often in garden and patios to warm up the get togethers during chilly nights. It’s sort …
Green exuberant gardens of Antigua Guatemala
If you have visited Antigua Guatemala, you know this is how virescent and lush gardens are Antigua Guatemala and especially so during …
Búcaro Fountain And Vertical Garden
Whoever came up with the idea of pairing the omnipresent bucaro fountain and a vertical garden is pure genius. Imagine a vertical …
Typical Wall Garden from Antigua Guatemala
Often the perimeter walls for residential homes have carefully guided bougainvillea trees flowering all year long along to the top. In a …
Garden Art: Monkey Sculptures
Business owners take note, how do you take something as mundane as a parking lot and turn it into a delightful experience? …
Garden Art: Rabbit Sculpture
I really like these ceramic sculptures found in the green areas of Santo Domingo del Cerro. I especially like this rabbit. I …
Garden Art: Horse Sculptures
These beautiful and playful sculptures can be found in the green areas of Santo Domingo del Cerro, one of my favorite destinations …
Garden Art: Owl Sculpture
I know that to keep abundant richly verdant mountains in Guatemala we have to have a 6-month rainy season. But, enough is …
Garden Wall at Sabe Rico
Here’s yet another photograph of a garden wall taken at Sabe Rico restaurant in Antigua Guatemala. As I have said in previous …
Garden Under The Rain
Here’s a rainy season vista from A Room With A View. Believe it or not, La Antigua Guatemala always shows its most …
Window Gardens
In other places of the world, windows are just windows. In La Antigua Guatemala windows are shop displays, gardens, pet spots, plant …
Skyping from the Garden
Since there are so many wireless Internet access points (Wi-Fi) available in La Antigua Guatemala, it’s not unusual to see people calling …
Garden Dining at Epicure
Following the advice provided by RWOrange on Dining in the Garden from a few days ago, I decided to pay a visit …
Dining in the Garden
We are so lucky in La Antigua Guatemala that almost every day of the year we can dine in the garden. The …
Garden Tools Art
For artists, limitations are only proof that creativity knows no limits. Take for instance simple garden tools and look at what an …
Antigua Garden At Night
I love walking around our garden at night. There’s something enchanting about looking at all the different flowers illuminated by spot lights. …
New Gardens in San Pedro Las Huertas
In the nine years that I have been living around La Antigua Guatemala I had never seen so much work being done …
Santa Clara Ruins Garden
The Santa Clara ruins is among the most popular wedding destination venues. And even if folks don’t decide to celebrate inside Santa …
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
What’s the relationship between Guatemalan filmmaker Diego Combi, Carlos Fuentes’ Constancia and Other Stories for Virgins and Clint Eastwood’s Midnight in the …
Gardening At Night
The last meeting of the Club Fotográfico de Antigua was quite a blast with some very interesting guests like Iván Castro, James …
Having Lunch by The Garden
As more houses of La Antigua Guatemala are turned into business, the old architectonic spaces are converted for new uses. Here for …
Nispero Tree in the Garden
I’m amazed by the abundance and variety of fruit in Guatemala. My chapín friends lament the relatively poor selection here, and miss …
Garden Chickens for Patsy Poor
It was Patsy Poor who requested photos of Guatemala chickens. Well Patsy, you are served. These garden chickens are known locally as gallinas criollas (creole hens) or gallinas del país (native hens) as opposed to the chicken grown in farms.
Garden Grid and Fountain at Compañía de Jesús
I have said that I really enjoy being in this building so many times that you might actually believe that I work …
McDonald’s Patio and Garden in La Antigua Guatemala
Believe it or not, the McDonald’s restaurant in La Antigua Guatemala is very nice place to meet for coffee with friends and …
Moonlighting the Garden
I don’t know what exactly haunts me about this image. Maybe the moon in the background, the green branches barely lit or …
Really green garden at Posada del Ángel
Really green garden, originally uploaded by rudygiron. This a very lush and green garden. It is a pleasure to the eye. In …
Old tree from the Popenoe House garden
Old tree from the Popenoe House garden, originally uploaded by rudygiron. As your enter the Popenoe House, the main feature of the …
Hotel Aurora garden
Once the Antigua became a popular tourist destination, many old houses were converted into hotels. Hotel Aurora is the opposite corner to …
The Iconic Búcaro Fountains of Antigua Guatemala
This type of half fountain embedded on a wall are known as búcaro and they are everywhere in Antigua Guatemala. So much …
Setting up the Corpus Christi Decorations at the Former Catedral de Santiago in Antigua Guatemala
The Feast of Corpus Christi marks the beginning of the town fairs season in Antigua Guatemala and surrounding villages. Today I share …
Foodie Fridays — 12 Onzas Coffee House
12 Onzas is the newest specialty coffee shop in Antigua Guatemala. They only serve coffee from their family coffee plantation Concepción Buena …
Poinsettias Flowers: A Gift from Guatemala to the World
Poinsettias are autochthonous to Guatemala and Mesoamerica so they can be grown in gardens either by design or as wild intruders as well as in the fields as wild plants. In Guatemala poinsettias are known as Flor de Pascua, or simply as…
Swimming Pools in Antigua Guatemala
Here’s your illustrated Guatemalan Spanish word of the day: Piscina for swimming pool. Swimming pools are perfect for this heatwave we had …
Sights of Antigua — Ruinas de San José El Viejo
The rainy season brings out the vibrant colors of the gardens of Antigua Guatemala. You need to take strolls during the wet …
Effigy of Our Lady of Guadalupe
Some of the new readers and followers of Antigua Daily Photo may not know that back in May 1st, 2006, I set …
Guatemalan Christmas floral displays: Poinsettias
Here’s your illustrated Guatemalan Spanish word of the day: Pascuas for poinsettias. Scientific name: Euphorbia pulcherrima or Poinsetia. As I have mentioned …
Colonial style fountain from Antigua Guatemala
Take a photographic tour through different fountains of Antigua Guatemala; there are over 130 fountains thus far. Participate in the Thanksgiving raffle …
Enjoy the Colorful Gerbera Daisies from Antigua Guatemala
Imagine a place where the all-year temperate weather is pegged around 22ºC/72ºF the majority of the time and the flowers are blooming. …
Guateflora: Tumbergias
As you can tell if you have been following the daily updates of Antigua Daily Photo for the last 14 years, I …
Guateflora: Albahaca
Here’s your illustrated Spanish word of the day: Albahaca for basil. Believe it or not, basil is actually quite popular in the …
Guateflora: Fuchsia Bougainvillea
Here’s a close-up look at vibrant fuchsia bracts of the bougainvillea climber plant; definitely the most popular flower plant found in the …
Guateflora — Yellow shrimp flowers from Antigua Guatemala
We continue our close-up look at the flowers found in the gardens of Antigua Guatemala with camarón amarillo, as we know the …
Guateflora: Salvia Cordón de San Francisco
Here’s a close-up look of another popular flower found in the gardens of Antigua Guatemala: Salvia leucantha commonly known in Guatemala as …
Guateflora: Hortensias
We continue our close-up look at the most common flowers found in the gardens of Antigua Guatemala with Hortensias the common name …
Guateflora: Cinco negritos
This week we will take a closer look at some of the most popular flowers found in the gardens of Antigua Guatemala. …
Enjoy the Sunshine and Flowers of Antigua Guatemala
Even though we are under quarantine and lockdown national mandates, we still get a chance to enjoy the sunshine and flowers found …
Enjoy the Radiant Tumbergias Vines
As I have shared with you before, these vibrant yellow or maroon spotted with yellow strange-looking flowers are the gift of a …
Wild flower blooms all year long
We are fortunate to have a wonderful temperate weather in and around Antigua Guatemala that provides flower blooms all year long whether …
Ambulant Orchid Vendor in Antigua Guatemala
Guatemala has one of the largest selection of species of orchids in the world, so it comes as no surprise to encounter …
Foodie Fridays — Salads from La Escalonia
Antigua Guatemala has plenty options for eating deliciously healthy and peacefully. Café La Escalonia is among the top options with tables surrounded by a vibrant and luscious garden area; part of a nursery with a menu full of delectable and wholesome dishes from sandwiches to soups and salads that accommodate meat-lovers and vegetarians alike.
Nativity Scene Inside Iglesia San Francisco El Grande in Antigua Guatemala
The nacimiento or pesebre, Nativity scene, at the San Francisco El Grande church in Antigua Guatemala is even bigger than the one …
The Dry Season Is Coming To Guatemala
Welcome to the land of the eternal Spring where flowers are always in bloom even during the dry season that spans from …
Photographic Explorations Through The Hidden Gems of Antigua Guatemala
With over 12 years of photographing Antigua Guatemala and publishing daily photo posts on www.AntiguaDailyPhoto.com of every aspect of life here, I …
Explore The Hidden Gems of Antigua Guatemala
After nearly twelve years of photographing Antigua Guatemala I have amassed a list of lesser known and sometimes hidden gems which oddly …
First Flower Festival of Antigua Guatemala
The first Flower Festival of Antigua Guatemala took place this past weekend, November 18 and 19, with hundreds of flowers on display …
Take a Look at Antigua Guatemala’s Evergreen Walls
As I have said many times before, the color the best describes Guatemala is green. If you have ever visited La Antigua …
Keeping Antigua Guatemala Green
This year we have been getting lots of rain, except for the last two days. So, it’s time again to water the …
Guateflora — Jade vine
Strongylodon Jade flowers are vines similar to the colorful and strange-looking flowers of a climber plant known locally as Tumbergias (tunbergia misurense …
Mayan family in a hurry
Oh what a wonderful combination of just the right ingredients is this charming and photogenic city we call now La Antigua Guatemala. …
Book Alert — Common Trees of Guatemala
Thanks to author Tracey Parker, a forester, I have not in my hands the incredible resource of Common Trees of Guatemala / …
Inauguration of Parque Central Facelift
After months of work repairing benches, replacing garden areas with new plants and flowers and fences, installing new water pumps and adding …
Roses Make Me Happy
Did you know that the slogan of Antigua Guatemala is the city of the perpetual roses? That’s right, although nowadays you find …
New Look of Parque Central
The new garden areas, plants, flowers and fences of Parque Central, the main square, of Antigua Guatemala have given the central park …
Inside the walls of houses from Antigua Guatemala
During the Secrets of Antigua Guatemala photo walk I often encourage people to go inside every restaurant, hotel, shop, cultural center, et …
Eggs Are Us
How much for a 30-egg carton of eggs in the mercado of Antigua Guatemala? Well, it depends on the size, the price …
Consecutive Day 3650 — The City of the Perpetual Roses
Did you know that the slogan for the city of La Antigua Guatemala is “La Ciudad de las Perpetuas Rosas” or the …
Consecutive Day 3639 — Antigua Guatemala Patios
Often during the photo walks I lead around Antigua Guatemala, I encourage people to enter every hotel, restaurant, shop and building to …
Consecutive Day 3632 of 3654 — Parque Central Facelift
This week Parque Central has been going through a facelift. New fences, new benches, new trash cans, new garden areas. This is …
Things to Do in Antigua When You’re Bored
People watching at the park. Having an ice cream while having your shoe shined. Talk to locals about anything and everything. Visit …
Repurposing Colonial Water Tanks and Sinks
How do you turn a living city into a shopping mall? Well, unregulated businesses will pay top money for real estate and …
It’s Poinsettia Season in Guatemala
Well, if it is pascua season in Guatemala, you know what that means, right? As I had shared before, pascuas (Guatemala) and …
Pork Ribs Japanese Style from Origami
Today I had the great pleasure to meet a food photographer and blogger from Chowzter.com who lives in Mexico. Since she is …
The Moon and The Bell
Here’s a picture of the raising moon in the background with one of the bells from Iglesia de San Francisco El Grande …
A Hidden Gastronomic Jewel in Antigua Guatemala
I’ve discovered a hidden gastronomic jewel in La Antigua Guatemala. The Cocina del Obispo restaurant is not conveniently located but if you …
Fountains as Decoration Pieces
The other day while scouting for new locations for the Artistic Photo Sessions I now offer, I came across a large garden …
Don’t Miss The 2nd National Orchid Exhibition in Antigua Guatemala
Did you know that Guatemalan’s National Flower, the Monja Blanca [white nun] is an orchid? If you like orchids, flowers or gardening, …
Flora Photo Stories Expo
The Círculo Floral de Guatemala, Filial Antigua Guatemala, which is affiliated to the National Garden Club, set up an exposition to show …
Café Barista Recycles Used Coffee Grounds
Café Barista is the Guatemalan coffee house chain equivalent to what Starbucks is in the U.S. more or less. I don’t visit …
Strange-looking plants seen at the nursery
Guatemala is certainly rich when it comes to flora and fauna. Here’s a really strange-looking plant that I found at Vivero La …
Guatemala has approximately 1,000 species of orchids
Seven hundred species of orchids out of 1,000 are actually native to Guatemala. I found these fragments in an article about orchids …
The land of the lilies
We are so fortunate to have an amazing selection of lilies in Guatemala. If we call Guatemala the land of a thousand …
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 …
Firewood fuel delivery Around Antigua Guatemala
After having covered the Ecoleña fuel briquette as an alternative for the leña (firewood) I decided to ask around what kind of …
Palo de izote close up in Black and White
As I have said before, Palo de Izote is the Mesoamerican cousin of the yucca tree or Joshua tree and one of …
Magic Cumbia Swing and Latin Blues Night with Ishto Juevez and Ixtapoch Vallenas in Antigua Guatemala
If you’re not in Antigua Guatemala right now, you don’t know what you’re missing. Well, I will help you know what you’re …
One must make a living in an honest manner
Often I walk by this garden, previously shown in It’s Always Ice Cream time In Guatemala, so I was happy to see …
Antigua Guatemala is a hide-out for the comfortably off and the harmlessly dotty…
This is quite possibly the best description I have ever read about La Antigua Guatemala and it comes from the pen of …