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Holy Week Vistas — Processional Marching Bands

The Processional Marching Bands provide the sonorous aspect of Lent and Holy Week processions with the sorrowful notes. The music touches every …

Smiling Student during Marching Band Practice

Once again, we continue the portraits of strangers series with a picture of a big smile of a student while during their …

Marching Band Rehearsals

I stumbled upon these kids going to their marching band practice and asked if I could take a picture because I noticed …

Student Marching Bands at Ermita de la Santa Cruz Ruins

Here is better overview of the La Ermita de la Santa Cruz ruins and the trees that hug it. Also, you can …

Student Band’s Practice at Ermita de la Santa Cruz Ruins

While driving over Calle Chipilapa, I was lucky several school marching bands practicing for an upcoming student band competition in La Antigua …

Holy Week Vistas — Photobombing a Grandmother during the Holy Week

Here’s the short story, this grandmother poses on the other side of a procesional carpet, or alfombra in Spanish. A relative is …

Independence Day Children School Parades

We continue our Independence Day celebrations coverage with this photograph of a couple little girls marching as part of a school parade, …

School Parades on Día de Santiago

Once again we are celebrating Saint James Day in La Antigua Guatemala, or Día de Santiago, as we call it in Spanish. …

Guatemalan Independence Celebrations

Torches, marathons and student marching bands parades are the main activities Guatemalans do for celebrating Independence Day. These activities usually begin manifesting …

Antigüeños Celebrate With Parades and Processions

Sometimes it seems that antigüeños only celebrate with parades and processions. I say this because almost every month you encounter a procession …

Independence Month Parades

Guatemala celebrates its Independence on September 15 and through the entire month student marching bands and parades are quite common. Students begin …

Perpetuating A Nation

Guatemalans are not known for being patriotic; yeah Guatever! Nevertheless, we do have our patriotic symbols like El Quetzal, our most beautiful …

Wear It With Pride (Part 1)

Last week, as we watch the delegations parade at the Beijing 2008 Olympics Inauguration, I was thinking how wonderful it was to …

Huge Bougainvillea Tree at El Pensativo River

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.