Lent Sunday Processions: 3rd Jocotenango
The third of Sunday of Lent is the turn for the church of Jocotenango to put the best procession possible and believe, …
Lent Sunday Processions: 2nd Santa Inés
The second Sunday of Lent is the turn for the village of Santa Inés del Monte Pulciano. It is at this processional …
Lent Sunday Processions: 1st Santa Catarina Bobadilla
Beginning with the first Sunday after Ash Wednesday, there are processions each Sunday of Lent and the first procession comes out the …
Lent Food: Corbatas
As explained before, corbatas are fried flour-based crunchy dessert soaked in syrup or honey. Corbatas take their name from the shape they …
North by Northwest
Often I see visitors to Antigua Guatemala getting lost or asking for directions. It’s kind of interesting since La Antigua Guatemala is …
The San Juan del Obispo Parish in Antigua Guatemala
In my endless quest to bring you new fresh perspectives for the over-photographed vistas of Antigua Guatemala, I present you here the …
The McNally Smith Fusion Ensemble performed at the “XIII Festival de Jazz de Guatemala” in Antigua Guatemala
Wednesday night we had the opportunity to listen to The McNally Smith Fusion Ensemble performed for about an hour and a half …
More Tiny Planets from Antigua Guatemala
As requested by several readers, I am sharing additional tiny planet photographs, or stereographic projections. I believe that Antigua Guatemala is the …
Lent Food: Mango Chow Mein
Chomín de mango or mango chow mein simply refers to the mango sliced very thinly so it looks like chow mein pasta. …
Lent Food: Elotes & Elotes Locos
As explained before, elotes locos are chucherías (snacks) that are always present in the typical Guatemalan county or town fair. To make …
The land of the lilies
We are so fortunate to have an amazing selection of lilies in Guatemala. If we call Guatemala the land of a thousand …
High Key of La Merced Church in Black and White
Another series that I am working on is all the ruins, churches and landmarks of Antigua Guatemala taken at night and in …
Antigua Guatemala Celebrates it’s 470th Anniversary
The fountains are decorated with flower arrangements as part of the low profile celebrations for Antigua Guatemala’s 470th anniversary this March 10th. …
Stereographic Projections, Tiny Planets, of Antigua Guatemala
I’ve been experimenting with the creation of stereographic projections, commonly known as tiny planets. Here are some examples and if you click …
New Take on the Gothic Church of San Felipe de Jesús
Here’s my second attempt at capturing the new looks of the façade of the gothic church in San Felipe de Jesús, the …
Lent Food: Cheveres and Shucos Hot Dogs
Panes con pollo, chevere hot dogs and shuco hot dogs are the sandwiches that are present at every town fair and velación, …
Lent Food: Toffee apples
These apples will soon turn into caramelized apples. Toffee apples, as they are known in England, are a good example of the …
First Photos of the Eruptions of Fuego Volcano taken from Antigua Guatemala
Here are the first images I taken of the recent eruptions of Volcán de Fuego taken from Antigua Guatemala tonight. I was …
Lent Food: Batido Drink
Batido is a fruity drink topped with a powder called pinol, a coarse flour made from ground toasted maize kernels, often in …
Lent Food: Panes con pollo
Panes con pollo or chicken sandwiches are the staple food of velaciones, vigils, along with batido, a drink made from tropical fruits …
Lent Food: Plataninas
Basically, plataninas are green platano/plantains chips. Plantains are like bananas, but much bigger and with a unique flavor. Guatemalans eat platanos in …
Poporopos are Popcorn
As explained before, poporopos is the Guatemalan Spanish word for popcorn. Most other Spanish-speaking countries use palomitas. I believe Guatemala is the …
Guatemalan Spanish Words for Lent Food
Today we will begin our Spanish lesson with some very important Guatemalan Spanish words: Poporopos, Plataninas, Papalinas and Churros. Poporopos: This is …
Lent Food: Buñuelos
Just as in other celebrations, Lent has a food that is sold at the food stalls out side where velación, vigil, is …
Fresh Tropical Fruits Available Year Round
We are so fortunate in Antigua Guatemala to have a fresh plentiful supply of tropical fruits all year long. And quite inexpensive …
Fixing the roofs before the rains
Often we see people fixing their roof during the dry season to prepare for the six to seven months of rain that …
The Newly Renovated Iglesia de San Felipe de Jesús
It was almost a decade since this parish was last painted, the only gothic church in and around Antigua Guatemala. I will …
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 …
San Francisco El Grande Wall Revisited
Here’s another take on one of my favorite wall in Antigua Guatemala. If you’re in town, don’t miss this wall on the …
Only in LAG: Home Delivery of…
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Let The Photographers In for Lent and Holy Week
Just as cucuruchos and processions are the staple imagery of Lent and Holy Week in La Antigua Guatemala, so are the photographers …
Arches Inside Capuchina Ruins
My advice is to always carry a camera with you and I mean ALWAYS. You don’t know when you will get a …
Lent season decorations
It’s impossible to miss the Lent, Cuaresma we call it in Spanish, in Antigua Guatemala as you encounter decorations, shrines, carpets, vigils …
Lent Is Altar and Carpet Time
Lent is also the time for shrines, carpets, vigils and processions. Out of nowhere any of these things can appear anywhere and …
First Vigil of Lent in Antigua Guatemala
This is the first vigil of the Lent season with its traditional stalls of chicken sandwiches, the batido drink and other meals …
Let Lent Begin in Antigua Guatemala
With the Ash Wednesday religious ceremony begins the 40-day period known in Spanish as Cuaresma, Lent, which ends with Semana Santa, Holy …
Colourful Guatemalan Carnival Eggshells
Ordinarily, I begin by asking readers to recall their earliest memories to provide a context for corpocratic historians of the future… Could …
Flat TVs Are The New Trend Inside Camionetas
The never mind the lack of seat belts, comfortable seats, handicap access ramps, clean fuel burning engines or thread-less tires so long …
Freshly-cooked tortillas for breakfast, lunch and dinner
There’s nothing like on-the-spot-freshly-cooked tortillas to accompany your Guatemalan meals. If you grew up eating freshly-made tortillas, the aroma near a tortilleria …
Sunsets at Parque Central
Interesting enough, Parque Central or main plaza is a great place to not only watch people, but also to enjoy the light …
Clay Pottery for Sale
This wonderful clay pottery was brought all the way from Totonicapán; that’s near Xela in case you didn’t know, to be sold …
Silver Miner Costume at Central Park
This silver-painted miner is the most recent show I have seen at Central Park. People were fascinated by the frozen stand of …
Black and white of the Izote tree or yucca guatemalensis
The izote tree, yucca guatemalensis, is the Mesoamerican cousin of the yucca tree or Joshua tree and one of my favorite plants …
Details of the façade of the church of San Gaspar Vivar
Only when you get a close-up and pay attention to the details on the façade of the church you realise how baroque …
Fresh Tropical Fruits To Go
Everywhere in Guatemala you can find fresh fruit ready to go inside a transparent plastic bag. Often you can can these fruit …
The Voca People at Ermita de la Santa Cruz, Antigua
Last night was the presentation of Vocal People at Ermita de la Santa Cruz ruins, Antigua Guatemala’s concert venue, as part of …
10 Days of Cultural Events Were Inaugurated Last Night with the Paiz International Cultural Festival
The night of February 1 was chosen as the inauguration of XII Festival Internacional de Cultura Paiz to be held for ten …
Gorgeous Light Lovers Wanted!
Hurry, we only have a few more weeks of gorgeous light left before the rainy season begins. I wonder why Guatemala does …
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 …
Wintertime in the Land of Eternal Spring
Contrary to popular belief Guatemala shares the same seasonal schedule as North America. Thus, it starts to get chilly in LAG by …
Mango Season 2013 Is Now Open
Last week I saw the first mangoes for sale around Antigua Guatemala. Some of mangoes, the Manila kinds, I was told were …
Glorious Light of Winters in Antigua Guatemala
In the recent photos I have posted here and elsewhere on the social media world, many people have commented on the gorgeous …
Acatenango Nevado
As mentioned yesterday, on Thursday night we had rain falling in Guatemala which caused most peaks above 3,700 meters to acquire cap …
Clear skies and beautiful weather available in Antigua Guatemala
In case you didn’t know, on Thursday night we had rain falling in Guatemala which caused most peaks above 3,700 meters to …
Clock Tower in Ciudad Vieja
I honestly wonder if any of the public clocks in Guatemala actually work. The clock tower in Ciudad Vieja for instance has …
Inside view of the arches of the entrance of El Calvario
Here’s a peak view at the three arches of the entrance of El Calvario church. A few times I have shown these …
It’s time for the paint job again
As I have mentioned before because of the high levels of humidity around Antigua Guatemala, people have to paint their walls often, …
Guatemalan Catholic Women
You talkin’ to me? No. Honest I am not talking to you… I believe that Antigua Guatemala and the surrounding villages are …
The Ever-present: the mutt and the bicycle
¡Nunca falta un chucho! or A mutt is never missing! The same can be said of the bicycles in the Guatemalan landscape. …
Unos van, otros vienen
The Alameda El Calvario is one of the few places in Antigua Guatemala where there is a designated pedestrian walkway and so …
Typical firewood logs load carrier
I am surprised and at awe when I see people in Guatemala carry loads much heavier than their own weight such as …
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. …
Guatemalan Fortune Owls
Did you know that the number 13 is sacred and a good luck number for the Maya? The same principal applies to …
The Black Christ of Esquipulas was carved in Antigua
As I have mentioned before, every year, on 15th of January, thousands of pilgrims from Guatemala, the United States, Europe, Mexico and …
Magical Sunsets in Antigua Guatemala
Well, believe it or not, the information about the ingredients of the magical light is available in the long and deep archives …
Side view of Iglesia del Calvario
I don’t know if I am attracted to yellow, but somehow in the dry season I captured many yellows and blues. If …
Faux Colonial Style Living Room Window
How about having a living room window like this one? Do you like the colonial architecture found in Antigua Guatemala? How about …
Guatemalan Finquero Breakfast
The finquero word could be translated as the plantation or ranch owner. So a Finquero desayuno, breakfast, would be one that normally …
Arches at Tanque de la Unión
These arches along with the public washbasins and water tank are one of the most often photographed landmarks in Antigua Guatemala. I …
School Supplies for the New School Year
As I have mentioned before, bookstores and stationary stores are jam-packed around this time of the year in Guatemala since the new …
The Ghosts of Antigua Guatemala
Los Fantasmas de La Antigua Guatemala Growing up in Guatemala, I was often scared down to the bones by tales of famous …
The Three Wise Kings Day or Epiphany in Antigua Guatemala
Unlike other catholic countries, Guatemala does not make a big deal of the arrival of the Tres Reyes Magos (Three Wise Kings) …
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 …
Laundry Day in San Juan del Obispo
This is what a typical laundry day looks like at any of the public washbasins and water tanks in and around Antigua …
Catholic Guatemalan Woman Fundraiser
I came across a group of catholic women who were raising funds for their church. One of the women carry an image …
The Giant Guatemalan Tamal
The gigantic tamal from oriente (Eastern Guatemala) is the equivalent of 4 to 6 typical tamales or about a dozen Mexican typical …
New Year’s Fireworks Shows in Antigua Guatemala
Antigua Guatemala is the preferred destination for Christmas Even and New Year’s Eve celebrations because Antigüeños know how put on a good …
New Photographic Goals for the New Year
In exactly five months, on May 1st to be precise, AntiguaDailyPhoto will be seven years old. This means this blog is mature …
Yo no olvido al año viejo
We’re at the end of the December, so we’ll be saying our goodbyes to 2012. I would like to take this opportunity …
Have you visited Ciudad Vieja Lately?
Ask yourself, when was the last time I visited Ciudad Vieja? If it’s been a while, perhaps it is time to put …
Tropical Fruits for Sale
Even though Antigua Guatemala is located in the Sierra Madre high lands at 1,530 meters above the sea level, that’s above 5,000 …
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 …
The chucho is part of the Guatemalan landscape
Honestly, I can not think of the Guatemalan landscape without the omnipresent chucho; that’s what we call the mutt or street dog …
Guatemalan Christmas Breakfast
Here’s a typical Guatemalan breakfast for Christmas, which is normally a quite day except for the fireworks and firecrackers which begin at …
Guatemalan Nativity Scene for Christmas Eve
Guatemalans begin putting up their Nacimientos (Nativity Scenes) around December 15; a tradition that was brought to Guatemala by Santo Hermano Pedro …
Christmas Lights at Central Park in Antigua Guatemala
This is what the Christmas lighting decoration of Antigua Guatemala’s Parque Central looks like at night. Enjoy the wonderful ambience of the …
Fuente de las Sirenas Around Christmas time
The Plaza Mayor, main plaza, or Parque Central as we normally refer to main square in Antigua Guatemala is among the best …
13 Baktun Ceremony in Antigua Guatemala
All of Guatemala celebrated the end of the long count Mayan calendar and the beginning of the new era. There were events …
Message to the Sky and to 13 Baktun
For the second time this year, hot air paper balloons where released on the star-lit night right in front of Antigua Guatemala …
Typical Guatemalan Nativity Scene
This is also the season of posadas (shelter quest) and nacimientos (nativity scenes) in Latin America, Guatemala and more specifically Antigua Guatemala. …
Alameda Santa Rosa in Antigua Guatemala
When was the last time you strolled on Alameda Santa Rosa during the dry season? If you haven’t taken a stroll in …
Guatemala is always green
Look at the light and look a the vibrant greens found in Antigua Guatemala almost at the end autumn and commencement of …
The dry season is the wedding season
As I have mentioned before as soon as the dry season arrives, the wedding receptions and ceremonies commence to blossom as flowers …
Antigua Guatemala is the photographers paradise
If you like taking pictures, Antigua Guatemala will be paradise for you with so many photographic opportunities no matter where you point …
For The Innocent Victims in Newtown, Connecticut
We send our condolences to the families of the victims of this tragedy in Connecticut. Our hearts are with you.
Christmas Lights in Antigua Guatemala’s Main Plaza
There are over 225,000 lights over the trees of La Antigua’s Central Park which are the main Christmas lights decorations your will …
12.12.12 Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Antigua Guatemala
Día de la Virgen de Guadalupe in Antigua Guatemala As I have shared with you in previous years, in La Antigua Guatemala, …