I have shared with you pictures or wall textures. I have also shared photographs of the colorful buses of Guatemala. However, I don’t think I have shared with you a photograph that had a colorful bus and wall textures. Enjoy it!
Believe it or not, it’s been over a month since I last saw one of these colorful buses in the streets of Antigua Guatemala. Would you like to know why?
Here’s your illustrated Guatemalan Spanish word of the day: Camioneta for a public transit bus. Here’s a quick look inside a public transportation bus connecting downtown Antigua Guatemala with the villages. Here we see passengers bound for lunch around noon. If you ever want to experience a ride inside a public transportation bus in Antigua … Read more
La Antigua Guatemala is a very small town, less than one squared mile, about 10 blocks in the longest dimension. You could walk from one edge to the other edge in less than one hour. So, where do you find this curved street? Follow the white rabbit to » many more rainy season vistas from … Read more
Often times I wonder why Guatemalans have this absurd fascination with the chicken buses, or camionetas as we call them here. I mean, we also have modern-looking buses and even double-decker buses with bus attendants and bathrooms in Guatemala. However, the majority of the public transportation still rides on top of these retired school buses … Read more
Here’s the typical vista of a Guatemalan chicken bus, camioneta we call them here, en route to Antigua Guatemala. By the way, this road is known as Ruta 14, route 14, and in my opinion is one of the most scenic pieces of road in Guatemala. If you are visiting Guatemala, make sure you take … Read more
Here I was able to capture the three of the four most popular means of transportation around Antigua Guatemala. Walking and cycling, I believe, are the most healthy and ecological means of transportation. La camioneta, on the other hand, is quite possibly the most contaminating, yet the only public mass transit option for now. Honestly, … Read more
Okay everyone, let start 2014 with new goals for AntiguaDailyPhoto, more series, more people, more #RealGuatemala [let’s create a hashtag and category for it], more raw images, more in depth and researched entries. Nevertherless, I will try to do less landscapes, less signs, less food unless it is real authentic Guatemalan cuisine; I honestly will … Read more
Yo no olvido al año viejo (I don’t forget the old year) Porque me ha dejado cosas muy buenas: (Because it left behind good things for me:) Me dejó una chiva, (It left me a goat,) Una burra negra, (a black donkey) Una yegua blanca (a white female horse) Y una buena suegra… (And a … Read more
Oh the things Guatemalans must do to carry on a conversation via the cellular telephones without breaking up the call. Of course, one might break his neck if one is not careful. 😉
How many times is this image repeated every day in Guatemala? I’d say a few hundred times since the ayudantes, helpers, often ride on the back for little whiles to help bring the huge baskets, canastas with wares.
Here’s an unusual and interesting bird’s eye view of the typical public transit bus which is used in most of Guatemala. In this picture the bus shown is the Orellana bus line that connects Antigua Guatemala with Guatemala City. Have you ever ridden on a chicken bus? How was your ride?
I am truly convinced that Guatemalans can not do anything in a mild, neutral, gray manner. Guatemala is a country of extremes and there’s no middle ground here. So it comes as no surprise that everything has to have rich, saturated colors with wild patterns that under normal circumstances could not go well together, but … Read more
These colorful public transit buses are just another way Guatemalans recycle the junk from the U.S. and Canada. Of course, we live in a colorful culture where women wear the Spring on the blouses and rich saturated colors are the norm, so it comes as no surprise that take the boring yellow school buses and … Read more
The chicken bus barely stopped while crossing over 4a calle oriente; the main artery that becomes the exit to Guatemala City. A traffic cop was there. Furthermore, the bus pilot blasted the horns. Lastly, the bus parked in front of the Cathedral, next to the Main Plaza. Three traffic violations in less than 20 seconds. … Read more