Since the end of November the entry and exit streets of Antigua Guatemala are decorated with Christmas lights in the shape of angels. What do you think, does it get you in the Christmas mood?
This photo was taken in the village of San Pedro Las Huertas, about 3 kilometers from Antigua Guatemala. I don’t remember if I have ever shared this piece of information with you before, but most villages belonging to the Antigua Guatemala municipality, if not all, have cobblestone streets. I don’t know if this is by … Read more
Have you ever ridden on a tuk tuk taxi? I don’t recall exactly when tuk tuk motorcycles arrived in Guatemala, but they were absorbed as part of the Guatemalan culture and tradition very swiftly. Tuk tuk motorcycles became quite popular instantly and before you knew it, tuk tuk motorbikes were used as speedy and inexpensive … Read more
Here’s a simple vista of a typical street of rural Guatemala. This photo was taken in the Antigua Guatemala village of San Pedro Las Huertas. I hope you like this image as much as I like it. Let me know your thoughts.
Antigua Guatemala is full of back roads and shortcuts that can take you to new scenery such as a bougainvillea-lined roadway, paths between coffee plantations, abandon parish ruins, panoramic vistas of coffee plantations or as in todays case, a road that connects El Calvario church with San Pedro El Panorama. What other back road do … Read more
Bicicles has to be the most popular means of transportation of people in and around Antigua Guatemala. People use bicycles to go to work or to work, to run errands, to play, to have fun, to tour the colonial city and villages, as publicity gimmicks, to ride with the family on the weekends, and to … Read more
After having watched this woman and countless others take baby steps while walking very carefully over the cobblestone streets of Antigua Guatemala one can conclude that these two things don’t mix. Can any of the women readers who have walked on high heels over the cobblestone streets share any tips or your experiences? Feria de … Read more
Here is your Spanish word of the day: Alameda, a tree-lined avenue or boulevard. La Antigua Guatemala has three official alamedas, Alameda del Calvario, Alameda Santa Rosa (near La Merced on 1a calle oriente) and Alameda Santa Lucía, which most people mistakenly call calzada; a paved road. There are not calzadas in Antigua Guatemala. In … Read more
As I mentioned before, If you are the kind of person that enjoys jogging or riding a bicycle, the roads around Antigua Guatemala provide an excellent opportunity to exercise and enjoy the views of the volcanoes, the green lush vegetation, colorful flowers, the aroma of the coffee and gravileas trees while inhaling some of the … Read more
If you are the kind of person that enjoys jogging or riding a bicycle, the roads around Antigua Guatemala provide an excellent opportunity to exercise and enjoy the green lush vegetation, colorful flowers, the aroma of the coffee and gravileas trees while inhaling some of the freshest air you can find in Guatemala. Of course, … Read more
Green is the most often found color in Guatemala. Green is our Quetzal. Green is also our quetzal bill. Green our Ceibas, our national tree. Green’s everywhere you look. If you still have doubts about what color better represents Guatemala, take a look at this image taken from the road that connects Antigua Guatemala with … Read more
Of course the parking problems get aggravated when there are events in Antigua Guatemala and thousands of people are expected to arrive. Then, any available spaces becomes a temporary parking lots. With this entry we finish the mini series about the parking problems of Antigua Guatemala. Let me know your thoughts about it.
One of the reason for why most of streets in Antigua Guatemala are one-way is because once the parking areas are occupied the streets are too narrow. This is even true of the roads around La Antigua as you can see in the picture above where you can barely fit two buses each going on … Read more
Parking spaces or rather the lack of parking spaces is among the most challenging problems that Antigua Guatemala is facing right now. Antigua spends millions of quetzales each year to keep up the cobblestoned streets which were not designed for motorized vehicles like automobiles, trucks and buses when first implemented over 500 years ago. Heck, … Read more
The callejones (alleys) found in many of the villages of La Antigua Guatemala are really narrow, passageways really created, I imagine, as a result of splitting of land through the process of inherence. These alleys are really no wider than six feet at the most. I’ve been photographing many of them found in San Pedro … Read more