Happy People and Smiles from San Pedro Las Huertas

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If you visit Antigua Guatemala and don’t spend some time in the villages, you’re missing a lot. There’s nothing more authentic than life in the aldeas, as we call the villages. You can move a mile or two from downtown Antigua Guatemala, but you’re moving decades in time when you visit the villages, most filled … Read more

Slice of Daily Life from Antigua Guatemala

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This is the sort of situation you can encounter when you walk around the villages; an elderly person taken a sunbath. In this case, she was trying to push the Municipal IUSI notice inside under the door. IUSI or Impuesto Único Sobre Inmuebles is the property tax we pay in Guatemala. Had she known what … Read more

Photographing in the villages of Antigua Guatemala

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I feel very fortunate to be able to help other photographers come to make pictures around the villages of Antigua Guatemala through the Antigua Photo Walks. There is nothing more authentic in Antigua Guatemala than its villages and life there. We walk through the raw streets photographing people and the human condition as well as … Read more

Guatemala Junk Food — Tostada de guacamol con chojin

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Guatemalan tostadas are simple and tasteful. Normally, frijoles, guacamol or salsa de tomate, or beans, avocado sauce and tomato sauce. Sometimes, though, tostadas can have other stuff on them, such as enchiladas or any tostada with chojin, radish salad. Chomín, chau mein, is another possibility for tostadas. Which Guatemalan tostada is your favourite?

Sunday Morning Strolls Through The Alamedas of Antigua Guatemala

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Here’s your illustrated Spanish word of the day: Alameda for a tree-lined street. La Antigua Guatemala has three official alamedas dating back to its founding back in 1543. These official alamedas are El Calvario, Santa Lucía and Santa Rosa. There’s a pseudo alameda at the end of 5a avenida sur, near Vivero La Escalonia, but … Read more

AntiguaDailyPhoto is your rear window to Antigua Guatemala

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“Stare. It is the way to educate your eye, and more. Stare, pry, listen eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.” —Walker Evans (source: Photo.Net) Alfred Hitchcock´s film “Rear Window” is translated in to Spanish as «La ventana indiscreta» or “The Indiscreet Window.” I can honestly say that I have put a lot … Read more

Pack of chuchos in Antigua Guatemala

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Here’s your illustrated Spanish word of the day: Jauría for pack of hounds. Slowly but surely the street of La Antigua Guatemala are looking like scenes from the film “White God”, a movie about “a cautionary tale between a superior species and its disgraced inferior – Favoring pedigree dogs, a new regulation puts a severe … Read more

The Minnesotan Invasion of Antigua Guatemala

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That’s right, La Antigua Guatemala is becoming the top destination for Minnesotans trying scape the long harsh Winter. This is understandable if you take a look at their temperatures this week, -21C/-5F versus 7C/45F in Antigua Guatemala. Of course, with each arriving wave of Minnesotans, the temperature drops one degree, so come soon before they … Read more