Antigua’s Alternative Food Joints: English Breakfast
Felix and Anita run the restaurant inside Caoba Farms where they offered high quality, fresh and organic breakfast and lunch dishes. They …
Antigua’s Alternative Food Joints: Breakfast Burrito
How about a breakfast burrito from the hottest breakfast joint in Antigua Guatemala right now. Mama Jojo’s is run by Québécoise Joëlle …
Exploring the back roads of Antigua Guatemala
If you go beyond the heart of downtown Antigua Guatemala, there’s a world of interesting destinations around the villages and nearby municipalities. …
The End of the 2017 Holy Week
Domingo de resurrección or Easter Sunday marks the end of the Holy Week. We wave goodbye to the processions, the carpets and …
Holy Week Vistas — Elaboration of Processional Carpets
The passion and devotion that goes into making the processional carpets is incredible. Often we only mention how long it takes to …
Holy Week Vistas — Processional Marching Bands
The Processional Marching Bands provide the sonorous aspect of Lent and Holy Week processions with the sorrowful notes. The music touches every …
Holy Week Vistas — Children’s Procession
Semana Santa in Antigua Guatemala gives everyone a chance to participate. Even the children get their procession. One for boys and another …
Holy Week Vistas — Cucurucho kids having an ice cream break
One of the most important lessons we can take from experiencing the Holy Week in Guatemala is the many different ways of …
Holy Week Vistas — Processional Carpets
Some of the more intricate and complex designs of alfombras, carpets, can take as long as 12 hours. Such was the case …
Holy Week Vistas — Photobombing a Grandmother during the Holy Week
Here’s the short story, this grandmother poses on the other side of a procesional carpet, or alfombra in Spanish. A relative is …
Holy Week Vistas — Palm Sunday Virgin Mary Procession
The Palm Sunday procession kicks off the Holy Week 2017. The Jesús Nazareno “La Reseña” and Santísima Virgen de Dolores procession leaves …
Lent Vistas — Street Portraits of Cucuruchos made during Lent Photo Walks
The special Lent and Holy Week photo walks are a fun way to make great up-close photographs of people, all kinds of …
First Ever Desfile Bufo of the Huelga de Dolores in Antigua Guatemala
How about a satirical parade about a procession? As I said before, in Antigua Guatemala the two most popular form of manifestation …
Exercising in Antigua Guatemala
The mornings are the favourite time for many people to hit the streets and roads in and around Antigua Guatemala to jog, …
El Carmen Ruins
I believe this is only the second time in over decade that I have found Ruinas El Carmen totally clear from vendors …