Backroads In and Around Antigua Guatemala
Antigua Guatemala has to be a paradise for those who like to bike ride or trek through backroads. There are so many …
Birds at Fountains Are Quite Common in Antigua Guatemala
Birds are quite common around the fountains and water faucets in Antigua Guatemala. I guess coffee plantations are a great places for …
Guatemalan Red Dragon Fruit Is Now on Season
According to the NYTimes, “one thing the dragon fruit has mastered, it’s the art of the Hollywood entrance.” The silver-screen comparisons are …
Guatemala is the cradle of chocolate
First of all, bitter chocolate is an oxymoron because chocolate means bitter drink. That’s right, we can say chocolate was the bitter …
McCafé Decorations
I don’t know if McCafés exist in other parts of the world or if they are a Guatemalan invention. Please, illuminate me. …
Green Houses Around Antigua Guatemala
There are many green house around Antigua Guatemala, but by far, Vivero Escalonia is the most popular and largest nursery. There’s even …
Help The Park Photographers
Many parks and main squares in Guatemala have photographers making a living by taken snapshots of visitors who want to keep a …
7th Anniversary — All Together Now!
All Together Now by The Beatles – www.studiohits.us on Grooveshark One, two, three, four Can I have a little more? five, six, …
Central America’s EDITUS live in Antigua Guatemala on International Jazz Day
One of the best representatives of the jazz in Central America, Editus, had a show tonight in Finca Filadelfia on International Jazz …
Colorful Guatemalan Town Fair Booth
This image of a stand of the typical Guatemalan sweets was captured in the little market on the main square of San …
Guatemalan Food Sampler: Salpicón, Chojín and Guacamol
I plate like this will set you back Q20/$2.50 in the main square of San Felipe de Jesús, a great locale for …
Visiting the Motherland never gets old
The recently anointed “abuelito” to my first born, took us three (my girlfriend, my daughter, and I) to Finca Filadelfia where we …
Firewood fuel delivery Around Antigua Guatemala
After having covered the Ecoleña fuel briquette as an alternative for the leña (firewood) I decided to ask around what kind of …
Ecoleña Is Now Available in Guatemala
Tuesday night was the presentation of the project of Ecoleña at Rainbow Café by the foundations Fundación Progresar Guatemala and Legacy Foundation. …
I wish you were here, honest!
Oh there’s nothing like Sunday morning stroll around San Juan del Obispo. The plaza right in front of the parish is such …
Alameda del Calvario in Antigua Guatemala
Here’s a night vista of the Alameda (tree-lined avenue) of El Calvario. In the background you can appreciate one of the stations …
The Guatemalan Economy Index Measured by The Fireworks Burning
Since Christmas Eve and New Year’s Eve are the perfect night for fireworks and firecrackers lovers with colourful and loud explosions going …
Looking for a place to spend your Winter season? Antigua Guatemala is the answer
A cup of the best coffee in the world, sun, lots of it, and great company, either a friend or a book …
Wood Fuel Home Delivery
The first time I posted the use of wood as fuel here, I was against it. By the second time I shared …
Yet Another Gated Community Entrance
Here are some of the answers to the questions asked on the previous posts regarding gated communities. Occupy Antigua Guatemala? Definitely not …
Recicladora Antigua – Reduce Reutiliza Recicla
There are many recycling approaches that people use in Guatemala. Interesting enough, at first glance it may seem that there are NO …
Antigua Guatemala Back Roads
Antigua Guatemala is full of back roads and shortcuts that can take you to new scenery such as a bougainvillea-lined roadway, paths …
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 …
Fuego and Acatenango Volcanoes Wallpaper
Here's another wallpaper for your iPad, tablet or laptop of volcanoes Fuego and Acatenango taken from a coffee plantation in San Pedro …
Antigua Guatemala Rainy Season What, When?
This year the rainy season has been fabulous so far. Crystal clear skies and sunny mornings to mid-afternoons with some light rains …
Jogging Around Antigua Guatemala
If you are the kind of person that enjoys jogging or riding a bicycle, the roads around Antigua Guatemala provide an excellent …
Enjoying the Sunset in Ciudad Vieja
Slowly, but surely we progress in our own unique way. Just before we leave Ciudad Vieja, I wanted to share with a …
Recycling Around Antigua Guatemala
Often I have shared with you the different recycling programs available around Antigua Guatemala. There are many recycling approaches that people use …
Antigua Florida: Bougainvillea Flowers Everywhere
The slogan of Antigua Guatemala is “La ciudad de las perpetual rosas” which translate as “the city of the perpetual roses” more …
Café Condesa Express
Sometimes you just don’t have the time to casaquear, chit-chat, but you still need your daily dose of the best coffee in …
Where to get waffles in Antigua Guatemala?
Interesting enough, I have not encountered many restaurants that offer waffles; or perhaps I wasn’t looking. However, for some reason, waffles jumped …
Having Breakfast in Antigua Guatemala
This could be your vista if you decide to have breakfast at the terrace of La Casaca coffee shop in Antigua Guatemala. …
Guatemalan Christmas Food
Among the most popular foods found for dinner in Christmas Eve and during Christmas are tamales colorados (red tamales), tamales negros (black …
Fair Trade Fair in Antigua Guatemala
On November 11, 2011 (11.11.11 for short) the Feria Nacional de Comercio Justo y Solidario Guatemala 2011 opened its kiosk on the …
Occupy Antigua Plantón
There was a plantón, sort of an occupy protest, called for many civil organizations to disrupt and put an end to the …
Colonial Pila & Lavadero Fountain
I have mentioned it a few times, but let me repeat it again. There’s are aesthetic principles which are used and apply …
Asian Tourists Have Arrived to Antigua Guatemala
…it feels sooo good to know that I’ll be back in one of my favorite cities in the world !! ( though for me it’s more like a nice little village actually, cause people are so kind and open, everyone says hello, you can always find strangers to chat with in Parque Central and when you’re there for two weeks, you always seem to meet the same people all over town almost every day. I so love
Them Belgians
There is a lot of activity around Parque Central even when it’s raining. If you pay attention while having a cup of …
Theme Day: Postcard-worthy Panoramic Vista
Just yesterday, Zach was asking what is your favorite viewing spot of the Antigua Guatemala area? Well, I don’t have just one. …
Secluded Sunday Lunch Surprise
On sundays there is a restaurant open on the top of the mountain within Finca Filadelfia. The food is delicious, and the …
Antigua Birding
Perhaps it is the fact that La Antigua Guatemala is surrounded by so many coffee plantations and fincas (farms) as well as …
Antigua Lent Processions: San Bartolo part 2
Today’s Domingo de Ramos (Palm Sunday) which means we are at the commencement of the world-famous Holy Week in Antigua Guatemala. We …
Antigua Style Patio Dining Area
Can you picture yourself having a Sunday breakfast or brunch with a pot of hot coffee from La Antigua Guatemala and your …
Flor de la Pasión
Having a satisfying coffee with a very delicious torreja at La Cocina del Obispo, this flower was just there sort of flirting. …
Excutive Chef Mario Enrique Campollo
The gourmet pizzas below are the creations of excutive chef of Santo Domingo restaurants Mario Enrique Campollo who is famous for creating …
Panoramic View from El Tenedor del Cerro
The restaurant located on the best spot of Santo Domingo del Cerro goes by the name of Tenedor del Cerro. The views …
Tecolote Sculpture at Santo Domingo del Cerro
The Santo Domingo del Cerro compound consists as of now of a wedding chapel, galleries, conference center, restaurant, coffee and drinks bar …
Breakfasts At Sabe Rico
Sabe Rico Restaurant, Chocolatería & Delicatessen is a great place to have delicious and nutritious breakfasts in La Antigua Guatemala. The range …
Geek food in Antigua Guatemala
I guess geeks will be geeks regardless where they come from. I mean, Guatemalan geeks eat no different than other computer geeks …
AntiguaDailyPhoto’s Top 12 of 2010
12. Colorful Guatemalan Balls, 11. Cathedral Spot Lights Zooming, 10. Sunday Mornings Begin with Coffee and Online Newspapers, 09. The Ages of …
Restaurant & Food Overview
RWOrange put together a very comprehensive list of the restaurants and food I have covered in AntiguaDailyPhoto in Chowhound. Here’s the list …
Breakfast Buffet at Finca Filadelfia
Among the zillion things you can do inside Finca Filadelfia, you can also have breakfast and lunch buffets on the weekends. This …
Finca Washbasins and Water Tanks
Don’t ask me, but how did the venerable utilitarian pila (water tank) and lavadero (washbasin) became decorations elements or design accents? In …
Guatemalan Weekend Tamal Breakfast
Here’s what a typical Sunday morning Guatemalan breakfast may look like. I say Sunday morning breakfast because normally one can only find …
Blink And The World Will Change
It’s kind of paradoxical that in a place like La Antigua Guatemala things change in the blink of an eye. But, things …
Typical Guatemalan Breakfast
I have shown you the typical Guatemalan breakfast at least three times and each time has been somehow different, how so? Well, …
Antigua Colonial Patio
What better way to enjoy a Sunday morning than to bring a freshly brewed cup of the best coffee in the world …
Snow-capped Volcán Acatenango
Sometimes, often, I just feel lucky. Let me explain. Just four days ago I was telling you about the pruning of the …
Pruning the Gravileas Trees Again
Exactly two years ago I shared with you the biannual procedure of pruning the gravileas trees to keep a balance between shade …
Typical Patio from Antigua Guatemala
These are the very last days of the dry season. Soon, in May, the rainy season will begin and the sompopo flying …
The Morning the Romans Arrived in La Antigua
At 3:30 in the morning and by the light of the full moon as the rooster crowed a couple times, my husband …
Espresso Xing Sign at Cafetenango
One of the things I enjoy very much of visiting my dear friend Pascu, manager of Antigua Canopy Tours, is having a …
Living La Vida Digital in Antigua Guatemala
I found the juxtaposition of cutting edge telecommunication technology and colonial lifestyle and architecture so fascinating and that’s why I have covered …
Life Is Good!
Split a life in two; then in decades; the decades in years; the years in days and so on. Life is just …
It’s Atol Time!
Like I said before, if there were a Guatemalan National Drink, surely “atol blanco” would be it. Atol blanco is one of …
Acting Against Femicide in Guatemala
Women. They are the subject of these pictures. Why? The gruesome brutality hasn’t stopped. In fact, it has barely dipped. The Latin …
What’s the name of this bird?
I ‘d like to know the name of this kind of bird, which comes to tweet and chat with our little white …
A brief sunrise amongst volcanoes
After having lived for more than three months now in La Antigua Guatemala, I’ve only been a little around its surroundings. So …
Licuado Culture
Sweet. Refreshing. Natural. Licuados are one of those treats that truly define a Guatemalan experience. The blended fruit drinks can be found …
Birds-Eye View of Nature
Antigua Canopy Tours isn’t just about the unique experience of gliding… it’s about gliding through a tropical rainforest or cloud forest canopy. …
Pick Your Poison
Just how daring are you? There are two zipline circuits offered by Antigua Canopy Tours. The first is Forest Express: six distinct …
Jardín Antigüeño: Hortensias
Sometimes you live so fast that before you know it, life is over. Life is not a race that you want to …
The Venerable Colonial Pila is Now Used as Decoration
The venerable colonial pila from La Antigua Guatemala finds a new use as decoration in a fast food restaurant. What’s a pila …
Gravilea Trees Wallpaper
As mentioned before the Gravilea trees are planted next to coffee bushes to provide the necessary shade for the coffee plants. Once …
Jardín Antigüeño: Camarón Amarillo
Oh life, you blink and it’s gone. A while back I read in the New York Times Sunday edition of the Prensa …
Flowers-R-Us
Guatemala does not have a Spring season, nor Summer, Autumn, nor Winter, yet it is known as the Land of the Eternal …
Café Barista Panino and Freedom of Speech
For those who come to AntiguaDailyPhoto.Com for the photos, here’s today’s photo of paninos or paninis which I believe are Italian words …
New McCafé in Antigua
Nowadays, even fast-food restaurants are creating up-scale spaces within their premises. That’s the case of McDonald’s in La Antigua Guatemala that turned …
Lines
It’s so easy to take interesting photographs around La Antigua Guatemala; you just have to walk with your eyes wide open. For …
Guatemalan Fruit: Caimito
I tell you, those Costa Ricans have no shame. First they made the entire world believe that Central America was them. Then, …
Casa Antigüeña: Volcanoes Panoramic View
Well if the panoramic view of one volcano is astonishing, the view of two volcanoes, Fuego and Acatenango, is breath-taking, especially at …
Casa Antigüeña: The Dining Room
The area for el comedor (dining room) in the casa antigüeña has always flowers nearby, light, lots of it and usually at …
Canopy Zip Line Tour in Antigua Guatemala
Boy oh boy, the things I do to bring you first-hand, eye-witness coverage daily from La Antigua Guatemala. I’ve done the unthinkable, …
Arches, Anyone, Anyone?
Sometimes in your way to work, you just have to stop, take a deep breath and sip from your cup of coffee …
Nispero Tree in the Garden
I’m amazed by the abundance and variety of fruit in Guatemala. My chapín friends lament the relatively poor selection here, and miss …
Every Hill Around Antigua Gets a New Green Dress
During the rainy season (May thru October), every hill around La Antigua Guatemala gets a new emerald green dress. In the picture …
Solar Sensor Colonial Lamps
I wonder if the blue cap you see on top of the lamp’s pole is actually a sensor to turn on and …
Buying the Afternoon Delivery Guatemalan Bread
Somethings are changing in the Guatemalan lifestyle. Others, luckily, remain the same, like hot-just-out-of-the-oven bread delivery in the rainy afternoons in La …
Bougainvillea Desktop Wallpaper from Antigua Guatemala
Tomorrow the La Antigua Guatemala Daily Photo (LAGDP) will be two years old. About 744 consecutive daily photographs and descriptive narratives of …
Pruning the Gravileas Trees
There is nothing like rain water to make all the flora grow and in Guatemala we have a very copious rainy season …
Guatemalan Cuisine: Atol Blanco, Anyone?
Atol blanco is one of the most emblematic drinks of the Guatemalan Cuisine. Very few meals or drinks can define or identify …
Jordi Albert Projet in the Jazz Festival in Antigua
The last presentation in the three-day Festival de Jazz en Antigua was the Jordi Albert Projet doing a tribute to Chet Baker …
Casa del Conde Doorway at Night
The Casa del Conde doorway is bound to bring some tears and sweet nostalgic memories to many of LAGDP visitors. See, La …
La Antigua Guatemala’s Central Park Dressed for Christmas
Okay, I promise this is the last shot of La Antigua Guatemala’s Central Park at night for a while. I just thought I needed to show all the angles and besides and I also wanted to show what is possible when you are walking around and the lighting conditions don’t allow for photographs to be taken without a tripod. See, thanks to the mini tripod LAGDP received from Santa Claus, a tripod is always present for those photo opts that do require a little more than a steady hand (and boy, because of all the coffee drinking I do, a steady hand is one thing I lost long time agoooooo).
Hallway Reading Zone at the Compañía de Jesús Library
We resume the library tour right where we left off last Thursday. This corridor reading area is a nice place to catch …
The Library Tour: the reception desk
We will begin a mini tour of the library at the Compañía de Jesús building under the care of Cooperación Española NGO or Agencia Española de Cooperación Internacional as it is called in Spanish.
But first the disclosure: I love libraries; even chicken bus libraries! 😉
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly of Spanish Schools in La Antigua Guatemala
In the picture above you see two foreigners taking Spanish classes in a Restaurant/School named Korea with omnipresent beer posters. Here’s the Spanish word/phrase of the day: Quiero más cerveza por favor (please, I’d like to have more beer). Life is though for the Spanish students in the Spanish school capital of Latin America.
Cafe Micho’s at El Jaulón Building
From the tables of Cafe Micho’s, right across yesterday’s fountain, in the corridor facing south of the Jaulón Building, you can meet with friends and family for coffee or beers, or simply enjoy a sandwich from one the best bistros in town. The tables all face to the central patio, with the fountain slightly off-center. You can enter this beautifully restored building from the east and south entrances; from the south entrance you enter the Jaulón building through and arched d
Guateflora: Hiedras (Hedera/Ivies)
Hiedras (Ivies/Hederas helix & H. canariensis) are very popular as well as all kinds of trepadoras (climbing) or cubresuelos (ground-creeping) siempreverdes (evergreen) plants in La Antigua Guatemala. Hiedras and trepadoras are found in many antigüeño homes covering the gardens’ walls.