Exotic Flower Arrangements
This was the second time I was alerted about the exotic flower arrangements placed on the fountains prior to a procession or …
The Economics of the Holy Week
As Semana Santa, the Holy Week before Easter, approaches, the historic colonial town of Antigua sees almost daily processions. These processions include …
Show Me What You Paint
Sure, no problem. This is what I paint…
Have Balls, Will Travel
Guatemala is a colorful country. What, you don’t believe me? Well, Why not check out the Color palette category to see for …
Holy Week Percussionist
The unmistakable thumping that accompanies the processions comes from percussionists beating huge drums with this hummer-like sticks. Do you know the name …
The Aromas of the Holy Week
I can bring to you the colors, the imagery, the sounds and even video clips, but I can’t transmit or transfer you …
Girls Procession
Transference: the action of transferring something or the process of being transferred. With these processions not only the heavy floats are being …
My Turn is No. 11
The Cuaresma and Semana Santa season comes with its own set of garments; from the Romans to the Cucuruchos to the Dolorosas …
The Broom-head Romans Are Back
I have honestly tried not put as many Cuaresma/Lent and Semana Santa/Holy Week photos here. I could, in theory, have a Lent/Holy …
Here, Take My Photo
On the weekends Calle del Arco is turn into a pedestrian strip and several business bring out benches, carts and flowers and …
Taking A Short Break
Often we hear that Guatemala is a country of contrasts. Even I try to show it often and what better way to …
Guatemalan Weekend Fashion
The people from Guatemala City are known as capitalinos; residents of the Capital city. Women from Guatemala City would be capitalinas. La …
Guatemalan Smile
Last Monday 8 of March was celebrated the International Women’s Day through out the world. I believe women should be celebrated everyday, …
Prensa Libre Sponsors Semana Santa
I noticed that Prensa Libre, one of Guatemala’s largest and oldest newspapers, was also sponsoring a processional band this past weekend. I …
Sponsoring The Holy Week
I don’t know if sponsoring the processions for Cuaresma and Semana Santa (Lent and Holy Week respectively) was already common practice in …
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 …
Studio C Sign
Stucio C took part in the realization of visual effects for more than 350 shots for the movie “The Chronicles of Narnia: …
Blue Skies Are Us
Definitely, blue skies are us during the dry season. During the rainy season, the sky line remains white and gray most of …
Everybody Walks in LAG
Oh leave it to the French and their Je ne sais quoi, yo no sé que in Spanish, to describe something the …
The Nexus One has arrived to Antigua Guatemala
Modernity has arrived to the quincentennial Antigua Guatemala. AGAIN. It was nearly 18 months ago that I reported the arrival of the …
Guatemalan Dessert: Flan Antigüeño
Wow, I can’t believe it took me 1,420 days to show you the world-famous caramel flan antigüeño. Bad Rudy, bad. Well, as …
Santa Clara Ruins Garden
The Santa Clara ruins is among the most popular wedding destination venues. And even if folks don’t decide to celebrate inside Santa …
Photographing Antigua Corners
It looks like I am not the only one who enjoys photographing corners. Here I captured a fellow photographer who was photographing …
La Esquina Sign
La esquina means the corner so what a fitting name for this restaurant and shop located on a corner house one block …
Contrast: Red and Green
Guatemala has very creative names for their chilies. For instance, diente de perro, dog’s tooth, and diente de caballo, horse’s tooth, come …
Contrast: Orange and Blue
Okay guys, today’s game is very simple: find as many kinds of contrasts as you can in this image of the San …
Theme Day: Passageway
What’s inside this passageway? The largest fountain in Central America Ruins of a monastery Mayan arches used in colonial architecture Access to …
El Carmen Handicrafts Market
Visiting the El Carmen ruins folkart market is among the top things people do on the weekends and holidays in La Antigua …
Flowers Are Us
Believe it or not, in La Antigua Guatemala we have flowers in our gardens year around. We also are lucky to have …
Sunsets from the Land of the Eternal Spring
Don’t you wish you were here now? How many songs can you think of when you see these photos? text and photos …
Lent Season Decorations Over City Hall
As in previous years, La Antigua Guatemala begins wearing violet or purple decorations over doors, windows and balconies. Heck, even the jacaranda …
Guatemalan Cuisine: Higado encebollado
We visit the daily menu again with today’s higado encebollado, liver with onions. It is so ironic that one can get home-made …
A Photographic Visit to El Mirador…
Before you think of the largest pyramid in the world and the Mayan ruins complex known as El Mirador, El Petén, this …
Festive Mood at Calle del Arco
This Sunday afternoon at Calle del Arco was just as guest contributor Arturo Godoy said in The mime just wants to get …
Lent’s First Sunday Procession
Sunday was such a great day in La Antigua Guatemala; nice weather conditions and a wonderful atmosphere all around town with people …
The Procession Season Is Officially Open
This entry should be called “ephemerides updates” because there several events that happened this week. On Tuesday, kids everywhere celebrated carnaval, carnival, …
What are they guarding?
Let’s know your guesses in the comments or stay tune for an upcoming entry with the answer. 😉
Photographing The Maya Hieroglyphic Writing
This room with samples of the Maya hieroglyphic writing from San Bartolo (I believe) was another treat available at Casa Herrera on …
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 …
A glance of San Martín Jilotepeque
Aren’t you curious of what else is around Antigua Guatemala besides the famous places? Aren’t you curious of what might you find? …
Moon lit cupolas
This is a follow up image to Luna de Antigua to ease you up at the start of a new week. I …
Valentine’s Day Post-it Notes Display
In La Antigua Guatemala people really go the extra mile to show they care about each other. If one is creative, all …
Municipal Clinic and Pharmacy
Here’s a typical vista of a municipal clinic and pharmacy found in La Antigua Guatemala villages. Can you guess the name of …
Guarding The Coke
Guatemala is a gun-crazy country. Everywhere you look there are men with guns. There are even signs forbidding to carry the naked …
The Young Maya and Technology
On January 4, 2010, in the comments posted under Digital life in Antigua Guatemala, Braaad wondered aloud: “I can’t wait till smartphones …
A Motorized Boost for Bicyclists
Reading the New York Times Sunday supplement that comes with Prensa Libre, I learnt about a revolution is taken place without making …
The Bicycle Culture of Antigua Guatemala
One of the things that most people notice when they get to La Antigua Guatemala is the large quantity, critical mass really, …
Guatemalan Town Fair Pizza
We get a lot of things from our neighbors from the big white north like remittances, retired chicken buses, junk cars, and …
Colorful Guatemalan Wooden Animal Heads
As a graphic designer I can only have admiration for the excellent handling of color, texture, patterns and shapes found in Guatemala’s …
Front View of Iglesia de La Merced
Even though I have shown quite a few photos of Iglesia de La Merced, I believe this is the first time I …
Church of La Merced Revisited
The last time I showed you La Merced church from this perspective I forgot to include this vertical shot, which has a …
Guatemalan Beer: Chelada or Michelada?
Chelada or Michelada, or which ever way you have them, Guatemalan beers are so refreshing! 😉 How many Guatemalan beers can you …
Colonial Kitchen And Modern Appliances
Like I said yesterday, “my never ending quest of bringing you the contrast of the ‘Old’ Guatemala versus the ‘New’ Guatemala…” Also, …
Luna de Antigua
Anyway, in my never ending quest of bringing you the contrast of the ‘Old’ Guatemala versus the ‘New’ Guatemala, I share with you two new versions of Luna de Xelajú. The first rendition of Luna de Xelajú is by Malacates Trebol Shop. The second version of Luna de Xelajú is performed by the group Abracadabra. Next, you will find the lyrics for Luna de Xelajú in Spanish and English right below. Last but not least, you can watch and hear the Marimba of Bellas Artes performed Luna de Xelajú. Enjoy!
Theme Day: Wood or Holly Wood
As almost every first of the month, AntiguaDailyPhoto is joining the City Daily Photo community in the orchestrated global effort to show …
Colonial Washbasins from Guatemala
The venerable colonial pila from Guatemala is often in my focus, don’t you agree? Now, if you can tell exactly how many …
2012: Myths and Facts about The Mayan Prophecy
Last Friday night at 7 p.m. AntiguaDailyPhoto guest contributor and professional photographer Arturo Godoy, Kara Andrade from HablaGuate and I attended the …
The Modern Maya
The Maya represent a culture that demonstrates how tradition and technology can thrive together. This Maya woman, dressed in the traditional Mayan …
Smoke Signals from Volcán de Fuego
Have I told you how much I love the dry season in Guatemala (November through April)? Well, I do for so many …
RENAP Is Retiring Guatemala’s Old ID Cards
Guatemala’s National Registry of Persons, Registro Nacional de las Personas, RENAP began retiring the old Guatemalan identification card known as Cédula back …
Antigüeños Love Processions
I don’t know about the rest of Guatemala, but in and around La Antigua Guatemala it seems there is at least one …
Colorful Guatemala Revisited
I am completely ruined. After having spent so much time around rich, intense colors, textures, idiosyncrasies, how could I ever live again …
It’s Coffee Time!
In La Antigua Guatemala we are so lucky to be able to get excellent coffee just about everywhere. Cafetenango in Finca Filadelfia …
al Macarone Pizza y Pasta Sign
Trust me, do no trust your nostalgic memories; they will mislead you. 🙁 Today’s sign of al Macarone is a very good …
What time is it?
Yo creo que es hora de regresar a nuestras clases de español (I think it’s time to come back to our Spanish …
Natural Texture from Escuela de Cristo Church
Beauty in things exists merely in the mind which contemplates them. —David Hume’s Essays, Moral and Political, 1742 (source: phrases.org.uk) I agree …
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 …
Close-Up View of Dome from La Merced Church
I wander what those dog figures are guarding. What do you think?
Guatemalan Cuisine: Carne Adobada, Longanizas, Viuda
We continue with tortillas con carne adobada and longanizas. I can easily explain longanizas as Guatemalan white sausage which has chopped onions …
Guatemalan Cuisine: Tortillas con Carne
Tortillas con carne could be the Guatemalan equivalent of the Mexican taco. Tortilla con carne is basically a piece of charbroiled steak …
Making Pilas: Setting the Mold
The first step of making the Guatemalan washbasin is to set the concrete mold pieces and then filling it with concrete. The …
Making Pilas: Removing the Mold
Actually, I should say removing the mold pieces. Basically, to manufacture pilas, washbasins, there four basic steps: Set the mold pieces and …
Making Pilas: Adding Color
These pilas go for a little over Q500/$60 because they use higher quality paint and more cement in the concrete mixture. Cheaper …
Making Pilas: Putting the Dots
First of all, I read ALL your comments. I don’t always find time to reply every single comment, but I do read …
It’s Refa Time!
There are two ‘official’ snack times in Guatemala known as refacción; one in the morning and one in the afternoon. I have …
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 …
Owls Are Abundant In La Antigua Guatemala
There seems to be an abundance of tecoltes, owls, around Antigua Guatemala. The reasons you might see lots of tecolotes in Guatemala …
Windy and Sunny in La Antigua Guatemala
Sometimes, every once in a while I need to report how wonderful weather is in La Antigua Guatemala: Today and tomorrow will …
Peak Hour on a Friday’s Afternoon
This is what the peak hour look like on a given Friday afternoon; around 5:30pm, on Alameda El Calvario exit. In case …
Broccoli Heads
Oh, I don’t think I will ever get tired for the abundant fresh produce available in el mercado of La Antigua Guatemala …
About Today’s Afternoon
This afternoon seems to have been one of the best of the year, and quoting Rudy: Linda tarde de enero en La …
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 …
Digital life in Antigua Guatemala
Guatemala is a country of contrasts and extremes. Here is todo o nada (all or nothing); there’s no medium. Here you find …
Spanish Tile Roof Texture
I love textures and La Antigua Guatemala seems to possess an endless amount of textures. Perhaps the fact that I am a …
I want gringas, You want gringas…
Gringas are tacos made with flour tortillas and cheese. For some unknown reason, gringas are very popular in Guatemala. Believe it or …
Antigua’s New Year Celebrations Slide Show
Who said New York is the only city that never sleeps? The New Year celebrations is one of the occasions in which …
Goodbye 2009 from Antigua Guatemala!
¡Adiós dos mil nueve! This is also goodbye to a decade. That’s it. At the closing of the 31st of December, we’ll …
Chocobananos and Chocofresas for Sale
When was the last time you had chocobananos or chocofresas? Do you know what they are?
Recipe for Guatemalan Quesadillas, anyone, anyone?
Please, could anyone provide the recipe for Guatemalan quesadillas. Thanks! Minimum Wage Salary Aside: Today Guatemala’s President Alvaro Colom announced a minimum …
The mime just wants to get married
Often it’s a bit complicated to go out on Sundays because La Antigua Guatemala gets crowded. Two dear friends from El Petén …
Typical Kitchen Cupola from Antigua Guatemala
Steve Jobs said: Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. I agree with him. What about you?
Can you spot the Chevere Guy?
The two most famous Guatemalan hot dogs are shucos and cheveres. I have covered Guatemalan shucos hotdogs often enough that I believe …
Feliz Navidad, Feliz Navidad…
Christmas is such a quite and relax day in Guatemala, except for the burning of fireworks and firecrackers at noon and 6 …
Noche Buena in La Antigua Guatemala
Christmas Eve or Noche Buena in La Antigua Guatemala is celebrated by staying up all night burning firecrackers and fireworks, eating tamales, …
Surprise Visit of Santa Claus to Antigua Guatemala
Believe it or not Santa Claus paid a surprise visit to La Antigua Guatemala two days before Christmas. No wonder we have …
Typical Guatemalan Fireworks Stand
What characteristics or traits can be extrapolated from a culture by looking at a simple kiosk? I’ll start and then you share …
Guatemalan Nacimientos or Nativity Scenes
During early December, in Guatemala people begin putting up their Nacimientos (Nativity Scenes); a tradition that was brought to Guatemala by Santo …
Sign Crazy
Last month I shared with you La Antigua Guatemala Sign Ordinances. I will again post the information below to keep fresh. One …
Christmas Shopping in Antigua Guatemala
Ho ho! not the Christmas shopping you were hoping for… merely some Guatemalan Christmas decorations (follow if you dare; I will not …