Colorful Public Transit Buses in Antigua Guatemala
The corner of 7a calle oriente and 3a avenida sur has to be one of my favorite corners to photograph the colorful …
Sights of Antigua — Ruinas de Santa Rosa and a Colorful Bus
This is rare vista of the Santa Rosa ruins as normally the public transportation buses do not go through this sleepy little …
Sights of Antigua — Colorful Bus and Wall Texture
I have shared with you pictures or wall textures. I have also shared photographs of the colorful buses of Guatemala. However, I …
Inside Peek Into The Public Transportation Buses in Antigua Guatemala
Here’s your illustrated Guatemalan Spanish word of the day: Camioneta for a public transit bus. Here’s a quick look inside a public …
Rainy Season Vistas from Antigua Guatemala
La Antigua Guatemala is a very small town, less than one squared mile, about 10 blocks in the longest dimension. You could …
Fish-eye view of a colorful bus from Antigua Guatemala
Here I was able to capture the three of the four most popular means of transportation around Antigua Guatemala. Walking and cycling, …
New Year, New Ride and The #RealGuatemala
Okay everyone, let start 2014 with new goals for AntiguaDailyPhoto, more series, more people, more #RealGuatemala [let’s create a hashtag and category …
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 …
Hello, hello, you’re breaking up…
Oh the things Guatemalans must do to carry on a conversation via the cellular telephones without breaking up the call. Of course, …
Chicken Bus Acrobatics
How many times is this image repeated every day in Guatemala? I’d say a few hundred times since the ayudantes, helpers, often …
Colorful chicken bus stamp from Guatemala
Here’s an unusual and interesting bird’s eye view of the typical public transit bus which is used in most of Guatemala. In …
Guatemalan Style School Bus
In Guatemala, nothing can be plain and simple, not the public transit system buses nor the school buses. Here’s a very good …
Chicken Bus Chronicles: The Groceries
Sometimes things are so obvious that one doesn’t mull over them; that’s the way things are and you accept it. While taking …
Chicken Bus Chronicles: DVD Players
The world infamous chicken bus reinvents itself again. The chicken bus that was born out of a retired school bus from our …
From Blue Bird to Green Quetzal
The typical Guatemalan camioneta (public transit bus or chicken bus for those who like the colourful derogatory term) is based on an …
Marimba Orquesta Chicken Bus Ave Lira
Like Manolo said, with Marimba music as the background for many parties and celebrations around La Antigua Guatemala and the rest of the country, I can almost smell the pine needles under my feet and the tamales and ponche (fruit punch) in the air. Oh what memories… sometimes I even wish I could like this type of music. 🙁
Marimba Chicken Bus and Church of San Pedro
Well, well, what we have here… what’s up with that, why are Guatemalans so enchanted with the infamous chicken bus. I mean what makes Guatemalans take on the crappy junk and retired school buses from up north and give them a second life as public transit chicken bus, mobile libraries chicken bus and now as a marimba orquesta mobile unit chicken bus.
Chicken Bus and the Driver’s Assistant
Guate, Guate, Guate… vamos vaciooossss!
That is what you hear the chicken bus driver’s helper yell out as the omnibus makes its way back into Guatemala City. But there are all kinds of yellings: Antigua, Antigua, Chimal, Chimal, Chichi, Chichi, Xela, Xela and so on.
Guate, Guate, Guate… vamos vaciooossss! Guatemala, Guatemala, Guatemala, we are empty is what the driver’s ayudante (helper) would yell out if they are full, like this.
Antigua’s Public Transportation
These buses are known are chicken buses on most travel guides. They make a great postcard and if you ride them, they …