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Chicken Bus Stop in La Antigua Guatemala

Chicken bus is the derogatory term used for Guatemala’s rural public transportation system. The chicken bus is the second life for the old school bus in the third world. The chicken bus ride can make for a great post card or provide enough material for your exotic travel chronicle. But, chicken buses do not make for a safe and quality transit system and as a such they do not have designated and built-for bus stops. The omnibus stops can be anywhere, including in the middle of the main entrance or exit to La Antigua Guatemala.

Architectonic Design Elements in La Antigua Guatemala

La Antigua Guatemala is like a huge living catalog of colonial architectonic design elements. You can walk around the town armed with a camara, notepad and pencil and an eye for detail to capture all the beauty that make up the architecture of The Very Noble and Very Loyal City of Sait James of the Knights of Guatemala. All the colonial architectonic design elements make this an enchanting and haunting little town. It is, certainly, more than the sum of its elements.

Life Can Be Good in La Antigua Guatemala

Not everything is rotten in the paradisiac lands of Guatemala. Sometimes you can take a pause from your hectic life or trip to enjoy the afternoon sunshine while having some of the best “home-made” cookies and coffee in Guatemala as you read a book or the Revue Magazine in our little green corner; our tiny and cozy corner of the world.

Entrance to Finca Las Ilusiones

The photo above shows what a typical entrance to a coffee plantation looks like. Finca Las Ilusiones is just south of El …

Entrance Doorway to the Compañía de Jesús Building

I am sucker for shots with contrast. I like to show all the different contrasting vistas that come into my viewfinder in …

Details, Details Around Antigua Guatemala

I believe the magic of La Antigua Guatemala is in its details, often overlooked, like a lamp. You can browse the Doors and Windows, Details and Fountains and Gardens categories just a get a feel of all those wonderful details that make for an enchanting experience a visit to this Spanish Colonial Town embedded between coffee plantations, flower farms and volcanoes.

Alto – Stop Sign in La Antigua Guatemala

The flavor in life is found in the little details. The transit signs in La Antigua Guatemala are a very good example of that. You take something boring but necessary as a stop sign and turn it into a beautiful detail; which makes your walks around town a little more pleasant to the eyesight. The stop signs (alto in Spanish) in La Antigua Guatemala are made from red ceramic tiles and metal frames.

Life Can Be Tough in La Antigua Guatemala

As suggested by Scott, here’s a more challenging photograph, although I did include a door (does that count?), yet it is an …

Wood and Metal Door in Antigua Guatemala

I can’t remember now who wrote to me that they could just go around Antigua taking shots of just doors and windows. …

Big Doorway #5 and Shadow Casting Lamp

Boy oh boy, I enjoy breaking the rules. For today we are breaking the photographic rule that says you should avoid taking …

Let Me Show You My Guts

There are still many walls in La Antigua Guatemala made from stones. The lucky owners of such wall choose to show the …

Maize Cane Fence

Not all the walls in La Antigua Guatemala are made from stones, bricks or pumice blocks, some are actually made from organic …

Señoras or Women’s stain glass marker

Back on March 5th, 2007 I showed you the stain glass marker for the men’s bathroom at La Fuente strip mall. It …

Even the Windows Wear Violet

Back in March 6th I showed to you the entry doorway of Hotel Santo Domingo (Holy Sunday, by the way) with violet …

Inside the School of Saint Thomas in Antigua

At present this building still goes by the name of Colegio Mayor de Santo Tomás de Aquino and still belongs to the …

This is where Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala (USAC) was founded

This humble building is where Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala, USAC, was founded as part of Francisco Marroquín’s wish and will. …

Violet or Purple bands mark the Lent Season

During the Lent period (Cuaresma in Spanish) many houses and businesses are decorated with purple or violet strips of textiles and bands …

Stain Glass Señor or Mister

Even simple details like the marker for the men’s bathroom is done with style in many places around Antigua Guatemala. Here you …

Angelina’s Doorway

I am sure this doorway will fit perfectly in MarieMC‘s Doorways Around the World. Well, I may be wrong because since she …

New Aesthetic Values for an Old Town

Do I love yellow or what? To appreciate an old colonial town like La Antigua Guatemala you need a new set of …

Elements of the Antigüeño life-style

What makes the life-style of Antigua Guatemala so appealing? Well, for starters we point out the great weather. Fountains, gardens with many …

Celebrate While You’re a Head

Finally Antigua Guatemala Daily Photo reached its post 300. We’ll celebrate while we’re a head. Just a spin on Marie’s, “Quit While …

Yet Another Yellow Wallpaper for Your Desktop

Oh what the heck, I am feeling generous. Here is yet another yellow wallpaper for your desktop. Lessie is right, I find …

Windows Vista in Antigua Guatemala

No, I am not talking about the infamous and long overdue operating system from Redmond, Washington; I am simply showing a vista …

Another Wallpaper for Your Desktop

If I’m not mistaken, Isabella, from Naples, Florida Daily Photo, said that she became more aware of her surroundings after she began …

Pick your color #2

If you love the bougainvillea flowers as much as Pamela does, and you don’t want to move to a secret island called …

Pick your color #1

Okay, welcome back from an ease going weekend. It is Monday and you want things to be mellow, so I am not …

Arched metal doorway and two knockers

Here is the other leaf of the door I posted yesterday. The owner of Juaréz Hnos. is framed by the arched metal …

Knock knock, who’s there?

According to the owner of Juárez Hermanos forged metal shop, this big door (portón in Spanish) is probably the only metal door …

New houses that look old, what gives?

Under normal circumstances you build a new house and you expect it to look new. Here in Antigua the opposite is true. …

Transnational: Have it Your Way or not…

The laws regarding business signs in Antigua are very strict. I believe this is especially true for transnational companies which they have …

Gothic doorway

September started with Daily Photo Theme of Doorways. I am closing the door to September 2006 with another doorway. This is the …

Sky inside

Normally you look out a window to see the sky, not in this photo. This shot is take from the outside to …

Daily Photo Theme: Doorways (framed shadow)

When Nuno declared on August 1st that the theme for September 1st was going to be doorways I was determined to win, …

Antigua’s doorways: Typical arched door

Here is a typical arched doorway. You can all see the plants are growing wild. Often you see as you walk around …

Who waters all those plants?

It is very common to see plants above the walls and doors in Antigua. The Land of the Eternal Spring is Guatemala’s …

The Arab vein runs deep

You may ask yourself, what are those Arab style doors doing in a Spanish colonial town in Central America? Well, if you blow the dust away from History 101 books or read the Wikipedia entry on Spain, you may recall that all the Iberian peninsula, was under Muslin (Moors) control since 718 CE.

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