Guatemala’s colors are on display every year on September 15 to mark Independence Day
Honestly, I don’t know why we still celebrate Independence Day in Guatemala. What we should be doing is putting a classified in …
Honestly, I don’t know why we still celebrate Independence Day in Guatemala. What we should be doing is putting a classified in …
Some of the things you should avoid when you come to Guatemala are ice cream and small tropical fruits, especially so if …
Chocolate is created from the cocoa bean that come from cacao pods as seen here. Chocolate is quite possibly the most popular …
Here’s the first photojournalistic project of the Foundry Photo Workshop I am sharing with you. As soon as I get other projects …
A quick visit this Sunday to Santa María de Jesús, the municipality south of Antigua Guatemala and the highest community on the …
Here’s your Guatemalan Spanish word of the day: “Montaña rusa” or roller coaster, although it literally means Russian Mountain. Even though the …
Smiles, big smiles, that’s something that I really enjoy about roaming the streets with a camera in hand. Sometimes I look for …
This is one of the photos taken during the last “street photography challenge photo walk” I lead on the streets of Antigua …
A bakery is not the place where you would expect to listen to live music, right? But, then again, you probably haven’t …
Let’s go grab a licuado! Sweet. Refreshing. Natural. Licuados are one of those treats that truly define a Guatemalan experience. The blended …
The especially made sausages for fiambre can now be found in the supermarket, mercados and tiendas through October. If you don’t know …
At the end of the rainy season one begins to see this tissue paper kites being sold in tienditas, small town convenience …
This quick snapshot of the huevo perdido, lost egg, breakfast from Cafetería Santa Clara, which is part of the new Panadería, Mercado …
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 …
We have so many different measurements in use in Guatemala nowadays it is difficult to make sense of all. We use the …
Nim Pot is another business that has turned into a landmark of Antigua Guatemala. I believe I have shown some handicrafts from …
Here’s your Guatemalan Spanish word for today: Cofre, that’s what we call this type of box, chest or trunk. We continue our …
This image of a stand of the typical Guatemalan sweets was captured in the little market on the main square of San …
Most weekends in Antigua Guatemala are marimba days. There are quite a few places, private and public, where one can listen to …
Even though you can find ponche, fruit punch, year round in Guatemala and no town fair is missing the stands selling ponche …
These are some of the most often used ingredients in the Guatemalan kitchen. This photo was taken at La Fonda de la …
Colorful rubber boots are in style in Antigua Guatemala. These stylish and fashionable boots can be found inside the mercado, market. Of …
The traditional ceramic owls in La Antigua Guatemala are yellow, orange and brown as I have show you before, but more recently …
The especially made sausages for fiambre can now be found in the supermarket and mercados. Do you know what is fiambre? If …
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. …
Pitahaya season is here! A Pitaya (pronounced /pɨˈtaɪ.ə/) or pitahaya (English pronunciation: /ˌpɪtəˈhaɪ.ə/) is the fruit of several cactus species, most importantly …
In my humble opinion, I believe that La Antigua Guatemala is among the best places in the world to live, don’t you …
I don’t recall exactly when tuk tuk motorcycles arrived in Guatemala, but they were absorbed as part of the Guatemalan traditions and …
The price of flowers goes up exponentially around certain dates like Valentine’s Day or Mother’s Day, just to name a few. A …
The market in Antigua was a bit mad last night. There’s a whole little enclave of Xmas kitsch at the rear that …
RWOrange put together a very comprehensive list of the restaurants and food I have covered in AntiguaDailyPhoto in Chowhound. Here’s the list …
I posted a photo showing some of the Guatemalan sweets on November 1. Today, I am showing you the booth of the …
In the nine years that I have been living around La Antigua Guatemala I had never seen so much work being done …
You know La Antigua Guatemala is a cosmopolitan town the moment Baltika beer specials are found in the local supermarket. That’s right …
There is new seismic activity in La Antigua Guatemala’s grapevine. For a while now, I’ve been hearing rumors about new closing times …
We get a lot of things from our neighbors from the big white north like remittances, retired chicken buses, junk cars, and …
Tortillas con carne could be the Guatemalan equivalent of the Mexican taco. Tortilla con carne is basically a piece of charbroiled steak …
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 …
The world-famous Guatemalan apron is going places, you know. Just like you can find mothers and daughters selling gabachas, aprons, on any …
Market day in La Antigua Guatemala is much more than just getting your weekly produce or enjoying a photo moment of local …
Blame this photo on Eric, who just yesterday invoked the tortilla-making ladies. It is interesting how the aroma of freshly-made tortillas can …
Colorful Guatemala, I tell you, colorful Guatemala! Si ni los mismos guatemaltecos logramos entender la complejidad cultural en la que vivimos… —Ale …
Oh there is a revolution brewing down South in Meso-America. This revolution will not be televised. This revolution will be streamed! Let …
Greed and ambition do not know of any limits. That’s how we got ourselves into the present economic crisis… sure the free …
The problem with many authentic Guatemalan dishes is that they are not very portable or sometimes the recipes are so complex and …
Today’s entry marks the 1000 consecutive daily pages of La Antigua Guatemala Daily Photo. And I thought I wasn’t going to last …
A quick trip to the handicrafts market provides a handful of colorful images like the one above. Stay tune for upcoming photos …
The easiest way to get authentic traditional Guatemalan cuisine is to get a daily menu special at your local diner. For instance, …
After MO confirmed the spelling for Misperos which Nadia had used in reference to this yellow fruit known in the English language …
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 …
There you go again thinking I am going to give you the recipe for Guatemalanness… wrong. But, I can do share what …
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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The fresh produce available at the Farmers’ Fair and at the market are so irresistible. As you can see in the picture …
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 …
Well, you may be wondering what SAT office means. Behind this placid view of this government building hides one of the reason why Guatemala is so poor; a beggar really if we consider that Guatemala begs money for road repairing, road building, new modern national identification card, fertilizers, schools, libraries and the list goes on and on. The picture above is the local office of the Superintendencia de Administración Tributaria, SAT for short and the equivalent of the IRS.
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}).
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!
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. 😉
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.
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 …
New Year’s Celebration in Guatemala is very similar to Christmas Eve. People stay up all night to receive the new year, but …
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 …
Antigua’s backstreets, originally uploaded by rudygiron. If you find yourself on the outskirts of Antigua, for sure you will be next to …
La Antigua Guatemala was founded as Santiago de los Caballeros de Guatemala (Saint James of the Lords of Guatemala) on July 25th, …
Here is another fruit stand in Antigua’s market. Most vegetable and fruits stands are owned by Guatemala’s indigenous people. The mayority of …
Football Game in Antigua, originally uploaded by rudygiron. Yesterday while I was looking for a car-wash around Antigua, I found this soccer …