Sunday Morning Bicycle Rides With Family and Friends Around Antigua Guatemala
As I mentioned before, If you are the kind of person that enjoys jogging or riding a bicycle, the roads around Antigua …
As I mentioned before, If you are the kind of person that enjoys jogging or riding a bicycle, the roads around Antigua …
Here's another wallpaper for your iPad, tablet or laptop of volcanoes Fuego and Acatenango taken from a coffee plantation in San Pedro …
Here’s what the typical Ferris wheel look like at the fairground now in San Pedro Las Huertas. The theme is pirates and …
Green is the most often found color in Guatemala. Green is our Quetzal. Green is also our quetzal bill. Green our Ceibas, …
The category of Doors and Windows has always been among the most popular. It seems that people find fascinating many of doorways …
Catholic churches were usually built around the main plaza of each town, normally taken the east quadrant of the plazas. There are …
This photograph was taken at one of the newest gated residential developments within the San Pedro Las Huertas, one of the villages …
The callejones (alleys) found in many of the villages of La Antigua Guatemala are really narrow, passageways really created, I imagine, as …
In the Guatemala one can find football matches on the weekends at almost every field in the country. La Antigua Guatemala is …
Since the rainy season abruptly ended at the end of September, the cold winds from the north moved in within the first …
Here’s a lesson to be learned. Even though San Pedro Las Huertas was one of the villages that was hit the hardest …
Foot Bool with the African spelling is how the people of San Pedro Las Huertas want to let everyone know that the …
As the new figures and images keep pouring in it becomes obvious that the tropical storm Agatha has caused more damages in …
Okay guys, today’s game is very simple: find as many kinds of contrasts as you can in this image of the San …
I don’t know about the rest of Guatemala, but in and around La Antigua Guatemala it seems there is at least one …
This is what the peak hour look like on a given Friday afternoon; around 5:30pm, on Alameda El Calvario exit. In case …
The vista cotidiana (quotidian vista) of men working throughout La Antigua Guatemala is more and more refreshing and assuring each day. We …
After having lived for more than three months now in La Antigua Guatemala, I’ve only been a little around its surroundings. So …
First, Blame the trabalenguas, tongue twister, title on emromesco, who said that water will be the oil of the 21st century. Second, …
All Guatemalans, of course, just like the air. Water belongs to the Guatemalan people and it’s managed by the government; national and …
Well, almost a year ago, I presented you with the new paint job of the Iglesia de San Pedro Apostol San Juan …
I love signs; as the Sign category can testify with 98 entries so far. I am sorry about that since you have …
Jornada has to be one of the most difficult Spanish words to translate into English. Jornada is basically journey or a march …
Almost one year ago, I found a quiet and tranquil place to ponder the tough questions: What is art and what is …
The Holy Week in Guatemala is a full five senses overwhelming experience. As you follow the processions all five senses are bombarded …
I figure that when one decides to name something is the set it apart from the rest, right? So, why would name …
On September 15th, at 6 p.m. all over main squares and central parks of Guatemala there is a civic act known as …
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I caught these would-be High School teachers learning Guatemalan history on Sunday in front of the Church of San Pedro Las Huertas. …
Central America and Guatemala especially have an abundance of water resources, many are groundwater. La Antigua Guatemala is located in a valley irrigated with over six months of a rainy season per year. La Antigua Guatemala is surrounded by mountains and volcanoes that collect even more water. Much of this collected rain ends up as groundwater.
The People of La Antigua Guatemala and surrounding villages simply love to make processional carpets and the town fair provides the perfect excuse to make sawdust and flower carpets throughout the year; really why wait for Semana Santa (Holy Week).
Papas fritas is the Guatemalan Spanish name for French fries. Here is the abbreviated history that gave us the Guatemalan french fries stall: first the Quechuas or Incas domesticated the potato (Solanum tuberosum) into a crop in southern Peru and northern Bolivia; the Spanish conquistadors took it to Europe where it was an instant hit and along with maize turned a famine-prone population into a healthy society; somewhere in one of the northern European states, quite possibly Germany, the potato lost its skin and got deep-fried; This Eurpean recipe crossed the Atlantic with the new immigrants that came to U.S. and since it was a foreign-looking recipe, they called it French fries (remember Coneheads); so the French fries came to Guatemala along one of the many incursions from the United Stateians (Americans they seem to call themselves 😉 ) as a side dish for the hamburger or the hot dog. Guatemalans thought that French fries were too good to be side dish and turned it into a meal by itself. That is how the papas fritas cart came to be.
Once again, La Antigua Guatemala Daily Photo is participating in the theme day of the Daily Photo community. This time the theme is about the color red. Here you can see the Compañía de Jusús building under care of the Cooperación Española which is huge red building; one full block to be specific. This building has had many uses through history, like the home of Bernal Díaz del Castillo, home to the Jesuits of Central America in colonial times, thus its name, and more recently it houses a public library, culture center under the administration of Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional. You can see the big entrance of the building, the interior gardens and arches and one the side wall of the ruins. I decided to photograph this building because it’s the biggest red thing in La Antigua Guatemala, but I was lucky to have a red motorcycle and a red jeep enter the viewfinder at the moment I snapped the shot; how lucky, indeed.
The bibliobuses’ route takes them around Sacatepequez, that is the name of the State where La Antigua Guatemala is located—called Departamentos in Guatemala, visiting the villages around La Antigua for two hour per stop and returning every week. So kids with no access to public libraries, get the chance to read and check out the material in the mobile library chicken buses once a week. Here is the side view with the contact information of Probigua and their motto: Please Help Us to Help!
The back of the mobile library chicken bus has even the same typography and three-step color gradient as the public transportation buses. …
Some of you have asked to update yesterday’s entry about the Mobile Library Chicken Bus with information on how to help and how to send donations. Come on people, you did not think I was going to left the entry about bibliobuses there, right? I have three more photos to go, one per day, as that is our agreement. I will be posting all this information for you to help and donate to such worthy project.
Here is an interesting twist for the infamous chicken bus. Turn it into a bibliobús or mobile library bus so you can take the books to the communities that lack a library. For now, they have two bibliobuses, but I believe they will need a whole fleet to cover all the communities that do not have a library in Guatemala.
Now I know where I will be donating my next batch of books. The two mobile library buses belong to the Non-Government Organization (NGO) Probigua, which stands for Proyecto Bibliotecas Guatemala (Libraries Project of Guatemala). Come back in the next few days to learn more about the project and to see the inside of a “chicken bus”.
In 1492 the Spaniards came to the Americas and traded their tiny mirrors and beads for all the wealth available in gold, …
Even the sidewalks get a new look for the visit of King Don Carlos and Queen Doña Sofía from Spain this Friday. …
Just yesterday I told you about the paint jobs that many houses and buildings undergo for the Holy Week Celebrations. Also, every …
It just does not seem fair that Nuno gets all the attention with his church photos; sure he captures great images, sure …
This past Sunday it seemed as every village and town around Antigua Guatemala was celebrating its patron saint day. Well San Juan …