The transnational Spanish cell phone company Movistar enters the humble Guatemalan market; following the example set by Domino’s Pizza. So now, you can go to el mercado (market) of La Antigua Guatemala for your vegetables, fruits, spices, flowers, dishes, charcoal and cell phones. These two girls, with Telefónica Movistar t-shirts, were selling the cell phones for Q130/USD$18 with Q100 of airtime and your own cellphone number; not bad all.
These are some of the most often used ingredients in the Guatemalan kitchen. This photo was taken on Calle del Arco in front of La Fonda de la Calle Real at a booth that the restaurant put out to showcase their flavors and the ingredients they use in their kitchen. You can take this photo to your local Latin market and start cooking some of the recipes found in this site under the Food and Drinks category. Bon Appetite!
The making of these processional carpets is such a community-forming and bonding activity since in the process participate many, if not all, of the neighbors and family members. These traditions, festive calendar dates and special celebrations mark very strongly what makes a normal human being into a hard-core Guatemalan. You break the link or access to these experiences and you only have a person that was born in Guatemala; a fact as worthless as the fact of having had a pair of boots once.
The charcoal-grilled meat stall has gotten so hip that you now find it not only in fairs, but around La Antigua Guatemala in parks, markets and sidewalks. Back in February 20th, 2007, I showed you an extremely popular stall of grilled meats in Tanque de la Unión park from a bird’s eye point of view. In the picture above, chicken and beef steak were being offered along broiled potatoes. Q10 ($1.25) for a portion of the meat of your choice, chirmol (read the side note), guacamol and potatoes; definitely, not too bad of a deal.
Diversify is very sound advice for any business. Patsy, who loves chicken, would say, don’t put all the eggs in one basket. So, it is no surprise to find stands, like the one pictured above, in La Antigua Guatemala’s market which sells all kinds of items. This photograph gives an idea for a new easy game (we haven’t got a game for a while) for this weekend.
Please, do not attack this fruit and vegetable stand with your liquidiser. Your blender would probably work better at this tropical fruit …
Here is a better shot showing how the Guatemalan textiles literally carpet the garden around the fountain (fuente in Spanish) at La …
New Year’s Celebration in Guatemala is very similar to Christmas Eve. People stay up all night to receive the new year, but …
La Antigua Guatemala was founded as Santiago de los Caballeros de Guatemala (Saint James of the Lords of Guatemala) on July 25th, …
Veggies and Lucky, originally uploaded by rudygiron. Antigua’s market days are Monday, Thursday and Saturday. Although, you can go to the market …
Football Game in Antigua, originally uploaded by rudygiron. Yesterday while I was looking for a car-wash around Antigua, I found this soccer …
Veggie stands, originally uploaded by rudygiron. Although this is not a very good shot, it shows of one the areas of the …
Every year October 31st is the best day for flowers vendors as the sales skyrocket for the entire week as everyone is …
Since the Municipal government has forbidden the ambulant vendors in all the parks of Antigua Guatemala, including the world-famous Parque Central, vendors …
As I have mention before, public transportation was forbidden at the start of the pandemic Covid-19 in March 16 throughout Guatemala. People …
For today, I bring you a close-up view of the intricate stucco details plastered on the pillars of Ruinas El Carmen, one …
Making environmental portraits of strangers can be quite a challenge, especially at places where people shy away from cameras. I enjoy sharing …
In the beef, pork and fish corridors of the municipal market of Antigua Guatemala one can often find pop-up stands selling mostly …
Making portraits of strangers can be quite challenging, especially at places where people shy away from cameras. I often share the necessary …
In the back of the market, towards the bus terminal end, there are quite a few tortilla booths, many preparing black tortillas …
This battle is fought every day at every market in the world; doesn’t matter who wins, the people always lose, right? All …
Here I share with you the colours the Spring season during Fall in Antigua Guatemala. As I have mentioned many times in …
La Ruinas de El Carmen in Antigua Guatemala are a magnificent example of baroque colonial architecture. Even in it’s decay and abandoned …
You can sense the Christmas spirit already in and around La Antigua Guatemala, alright. From the processions, the convites, the town fairs, …
If you go to el mercado on “market days” you can get an ever larger selection of flowers at lower prices than …
Here’s your Spanish word of the day: Mandados or errands. On the other hand, Guatemalans don’t seem to be able to do …
Once again we are celebrating Saint James Day in La Antigua Guatemala, or Día de Santiago, as we call it in Spanish. …
Here’s your Spanish word of the day: sombrero or hat. I’ve reflecting upon the most recent scandals in Guatemala [do a quick …
As every first of the month, the City Daily Photo community has a theme day. For February 1, 2015 theme challenge is …
This is what a typical Christmas decoration stand looks like in the market of Antigua Guatemala. Everything decoration you see here is …
I have found a tortillería that offers black tortillas twice a week, on Tuesdays and Saturdays. Of course, you can find black …
This is what supermarkets look like around fiambre time. Some of these cold cuts are only available during fiambre season, which is …
If you visit the mercados, markets, in Guatemala you will the the busy flower shops creating these flower crowns for Día de …
I present to you the the güisquil root, a Guatemalan seasonal delicacy. The güisquil, Sechium educe, is usually the dark green pear …
Did you guys know that the slogan for La Antigua Guatemala is “La ciudad de las perpetuas rosas”? That’s “The city of …
Smiles, big smiles, that’s something that I really enjoy about roaming the streets with a camera in hand. Sometimes I look for …
A bakery is not the place where you would expect to listen to live music, right? But, then again, you probably haven’t …
At the end of the rainy season one begins to see this tissue paper kites being sold in tienditas, small town convenience …
This past weekend we had the opportunity to visit the artisan handicraft market that setup shop at Antigua Guatemala’s parque central, main …
This is the typical stamp of a convenience store in rural Guatemala. By the way, this photo was taken in San Miguel …
Nim Pot is another business that has turned into a landmark of Antigua Guatemala. I believe I have shown some handicrafts from …
Colorful rubber boots are in style in Antigua Guatemala. These stylish and fashionable boots can be found inside the mercado, market. Of …
The Political Parties Electoral law in Guatemala forbids the sale of alcoholic drinks the day before and the day after of the …
Nylon becomes ubiquituos in Guatemala during the rainy season. Nylon is quite possibly the cheapest protection one can buy against the rain. …
The price of flowers goes up exponentially around certain dates like Valentine’s Day or Mother’s Day, just to name a few. A …
RWOrange put together a very comprehensive list of the restaurants and food I have covered in AntiguaDailyPhoto in Chowhound. Here’s the list …
In the nine years that I have been living around La Antigua Guatemala I had never seen so much work being done …
There is new seismic activity in La Antigua Guatemala’s grapevine. For a while now, I’ve been hearing rumors about new closing times …
San Felipe de Jesús is just a small town next to La Antigua Guatemala, which has its own particularities. San Felipe’s church …
I know that one can go every day to the mercado, market, in La Antigua Guatemala for fresh produce and that if …
Sweet. Refreshing. Natural. Licuados are one of those treats that truly define a Guatemalan experience. The blended fruit drinks can be found …
Market day in La Antigua Guatemala is much more than just getting your weekly produce or enjoying a photo moment of local …
Oh there is a revolution brewing down South in Meso-America. This revolution will not be televised. This revolution will be streamed! Let …
Sometimes things are so obvious that one doesn’t mull over them; that’s the way things are and you accept it. While taking …
I’m amazed by the abundance and variety of fruit in Guatemala. My chapín friends lament the relatively poor selection here, and miss …
Ignacio Ochoa has published a recent article about the history of kite making in Santiago Sacatepéquez under the name of Messenges in …
As you can see in the picture above, most flower shops are working really hard to have a large inventory of flower …
Lo que no se conoce no se ama One can not love what one does not know — Julia Montoya Source: Interview …
Last week, as we watch the delegations parade at the Beijing 2008 Olympics Inauguration, I was thinking how wonderful it was to …
Cellular telephones are so inexpensive in Guatemala that I used to joke with a friend who did have a mobile phone that …
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As the U.S. real estate market plummets, especially the sub-prime real estate, the Guatemalan real estate market grows even healthier, especially in …
Today’s Palm Sunday or Domingo de Ramos as today’s known in the Catholic Realm. Last year, Domingo de Ramos fell on April …
The cellular telephone industry is one of the fastest growing industries and they just broke a new record for Latin America: 10 million 150 thousand users or the equivalent of 75% of the population has now an “active cellphone”. The key word here is: Active. This makes Guatemala one of the most connected countries in Latin America. (Source: Guatemala bate récord de usuarios de telefonía móvil at elPeriódico {ES}).
This niche and the surrounding walls was basically the only color I found at the San Lázaro Cemetery. This piece was between two sets of above-ground crypts; the set on the right was empty and the set on the left was not vacant.
Perhaps it is not too late to introduce some of the wonderful Antigüeño color palette into the La Antigua Guatemala’s main public cemetery.
Guatemala’s real culture is syncretism and thus death plays an important role in traditions and culture. Guatemala is the real ‘melting pot’ and the final product is called mestizo. A mestizo is an individual that comes in many shades of brown and she is made up from a combination of AmerIndian, European, African, Asian and Arab. Syncretism and mestizism go together well and that is why there is no conflict with including some or many Mayan rituals, including death rituals, in a everyday Catholic or Christian service. Obviously, a single entry is not enough to describe such a complex human being, but we have to start somewhere and since Patsy Poor mentioned that recent studies showed that the U.S. will be brown (mestizo) in 50 years. 😉
Here’s the snapshot of a palm flower arrangements stand taken in the La Antigua Guatemala’s market on Saturday prior to Palm Sunday …
The informal economy is the basis for making a living for most Guatemalans. That is why you have shoe-shining boys, orchids sellers, …
One of the things that I like most about publishing the Antigua Guatemala Daily Photo and visiting the other Daily Photos Cities …
This is a sampler of some of the earrings that can be found at in the handicraft markets around Antigua. Click in …
The El Carmen Ruins show cases some of the most baroque-style architecture. Here you can see the details of the columns. Outside …
Guatemalan textiles are among the most look-after items in the folk-art markets. You have to be careful though, they come in two …
This outdoor folk-art market sets on the street outside the El Carmen Ruins on the weekends only, located about two blocks from …
With this photo I will begin a series on transnational companies in La Antigua Guatemala. Domino’s Pizza is very popular here, as …
Here is another fruit stand in Antigua’s market. Most vegetable and fruits stands are owned by Guatemala’s indigenous people. The mayority of …
