If you will be in Antigua Guatemala around Saturday, March 9th, don’t miss the 4th Annual Avocado Festival at Casa Popenoe. The Avocado Festival is full of fun and delicious activities from interesting talks to a degustation of many mouthwatering avocado dishes and desserts. Enjoy! See banner below for the full program of the 4th … Read more
Today I share with you some behind the scenes photos of the filming of the European Reality TV show “Pékin Express” in Antigua Guatemala. By the way, there’s nothing real about reality tv, everything is choreographed and scripted and the productions are huge. In fact, I have never seen such huge production in Antigua Guatemala, … Read more
Even though La Antigua Guatemala is a small town it has a very vocal community of activists. The general population though conservative is quite outspoken…
The awesome positive feedback I received of the night photographs of the 2nd Flower Festival of Antigua Guatemala confirmed my initial thoughts: I could share a new perspective by photographing at night with a different light and atmosphere. Also, by shooting long exposures, I was abled to capture interesting lights moving through the streets or … Read more
Bakeries really put in the effort to create beautiful flower embellishments for the façades of their businesses. Here’s flower decoration found at El Viejo Café. Enjoy!
This decorated façade was awarded the third position on the contest organized by the 2nd Flower Festival of Antigua Guatemala. Once again, I made this photograph with a long exposure of 2 seconds to vanish the people walking by.
Here’s your illustrated Spanish word of the day: Fachada for façade. The flower decoration of façades in Antigua Guatemala was one of the most photogenic parts of the 2nd Flower of Festival this past weekend. Because I was leading photo walks since Wednesday, I didn’t get a chance to make photos in the early mornings, … Read more
The 2nd Flower Festival of Antigua Guatemala was packed with fun activities through out the entire weekend. Everything was quite photogenic from the flowers to a group of people dressed up in colonial-style garments who were strolling through town. I captured them on 6a calle oriente as they make their way to Parque de La … Read more
This week has been phenomenal in Antigua Guatemala, with a pedestrian town for three days, new spotlights at the Compañía de Jesús ruins, the 2nd Flower Festival, and live music every single day. Here’s live marimba performance under the Palacio del Ayuntamiento as part of the Flower Festival. Stay tuned this coming week for photos … Read more
For 17 years we have had a very peculiar race in Antigua Guatemala, La Carrera de las Charolas, a race where waitress, waiters and bar men run through the streets of the colonial city while holding a tray with drinks. Whoever finishes first without dropping the contents of their tray wins. Over 360 people participated … Read more
As part of the XXVI Cumbre Iberoamericana, 26th Ibero American Summit of Heads of States and Government, Antigua Guatemala will be in virtual lock down mode from November 14 through the 16th for vehicular traffic and parking. As shown in the map below, no vehicles will allowed to drive through the area marked in red. … Read more
The brotherhood of the parish of San Pedro Las Huertas put together the first historic exhibition of religious artifacts found in the warehouses of the Parroquía de San Pedro Las Huertas. It was delightful to see the community walking around the exhibit to learn about the historic books, colonial organ and other religious relics found … Read more
There are cleaning up crews in every block of Antigua Guatemala. At this rate, the city is going to look even better than last week. Antigua Guatemala is ready to welcome all visitors.
Sunday morning, June 3, 2018, began like many mornings with clear skies and Volcán de Fuego showing off with towering fumaroles that reach the clouds. All through the night we can hear Fuego growling, but only until the morning we get a chance to see its magnificent eruptions, similar to the many eruptions we have … Read more
This Sunday Guatemala held a national consultation, a sort of referendum, to decide whether Guatemala and Belize should take the border differences to the International Court of Justice. The turn over was a merely 24% with 76% deciding to not even show up. The upshot is that the majority of the 24% decide on Yes … Read more