Visiting Ciudad Vieja
As soon as you step outside downtown Antigua Guatemala, you can find the REAL Guatemala. A quick visit to Ciudad Vieja, about …
Birds at Fountains Are Quite Common in Antigua Guatemala
Birds are quite common around the fountains and water faucets in Antigua Guatemala. I guess coffee plantations are a great places for …
Have mule and fumigator, will travel
I am afraid the paraphrasing of the title might scape most people since it is a nerd thing that only the most …
Cupolas and Volcanoes around Antigua Guatemala
Here’s a sepia take on this picture that many people seem to enjoy very much. All these houses are newly built, but …
Hills Around Ciudad Vieja
This patchwork can be seen on the hills around Ciudad Vieja and I was asked to photograph it for nostalgia reason by …
Real Guatemala: El campesino
The land belongs to those that work it with their own hands. —Emiliano Zapata La tierra es de quien la trabaja con …
Real Guatemala: Los albañiles
Of course, we can not leave out the albañiles, construction workers, from a series about the Real Guatemala. I don’t know if …
Real Guatemala: Los mandados
Each morning the streets are filled with people of all ages going or coming from doing errands, as simple as buying fresh …
Real Guatemala: El Zapatero
Here’s a Guatemalan idiom for your ever-increasing Spanish vocabulary: “zapatero, a tus zapatos” Ne sutor ultra crepidam — “Let the shoemaker venture …
Real Guatemala: The Tortrix Grandma
We continue our series Real Guatemala series with a photograph of a grandmother from Ciudad Vieja buying the eggs and salchichas at …
Real Guatemala: The Typical Rural Women
These women from Ciudad Vieja are wearing what I would consider the typical dress code for rural Guatemala women, except, of course, …
The Tiny Planet of Ciudad Vieja’s Main Square
I’ve continued with my experiments of creation of stereographic projections, commonly known as tiny planets. Here is the MiniMundo of the Parque …
Clock Tower in Ciudad Vieja
I honestly wonder if any of the public clocks in Guatemala actually work. The clock tower in Ciudad Vieja for instance has …
Cemetery, Kites and Fiambre Day in Guatemala
November 1 is one of the most important dates in Guatemala. On November 1 Guatemalans go to the cemeteries to remember and …