Cellular Towers Inside Coffee Plantations
Worry not about being unplugged while touring the coffee plantations around La Antigua Guatemala. In fact, soon you will have 4G connectivity …
Vintage Chicken Bus Inside a Coffee Plantation in Antigua Guatemala
Often times I wonder why Guatemalans have this absurd fascination with the chicken buses, or camionetas as we call them here. I …
Details from Finca Filadelfia Coffee Plantation
Even a drain cover from Finca Filadelfia coffee plantation looks interesting and appealing to the eye, at least to my eye, how …
Inside Finca Filadelfia Coffee Plantation
I have said it before and I am repeating again here, both Panchoy and Almolonga valleys are surrounded by three volcanoes and …
Visiting the Motherland never gets old
The recently anointed “abuelito” to my first born, took us three (my girlfriend, my daughter, and I) to Finca Filadelfia where we …
What Makes Coffee from Antigua Guatemala So Incredible
Volcanic soil, the perfect amount rain and sunshine and shadow, temperate weather, 5,000 to 6,500 feet altitude above sea level and to …
Coffee Plantation Entrance in Antigua Guatemala
Green should be the color that identifies Guatemala more than any other. When you’re flying into Guatemala you know you have arrived …
Coffee and Cupolas
If you live in or around Antigua Guatemala you get used to coffee farms, coffee lots and coffee orchards and cupolas very …
Coffee Harvesting Season is Underway
I was told once that in Guatemala if they are lucky coffee plantations can harvest twice a year. But, most of the …
Coffee Plantation Are Becoming Private Gated Communities
This photograph was taken at one of the newest gated residential developments within the San Pedro Las Huertas, one of the villages …
Theme Day: Postcard-worthy Panoramic Vista
Just yesterday, Zach was asking what is your favorite viewing spot of the Antigua Guatemala area? Well, I don’t have just one. …
Stairway to Coffee Heaven
This staircase leads to coffee heaven, also known as the tostaduría, the roasting room. Or maybe not. I guess you will have …
Lines
It’s so easy to take interesting photographs around La Antigua Guatemala; you just have to walk with your eyes wide open. For …
House Inside Coffee Plantation
Besides the Canopy Zip Lines tours you can find at Finca Filadelfia, in Antigua Guatemala, there are all kinds of activities to …
Time to harvest the coffee in La Antigua Guatemala
So what makes La Antigua Guatemala the best coffee in the world? To get the best cup of coffee of the world, one must start with the right altitude; somewhere above 1,500 meters above the sea level; add lots of fertile volcanic soil; mix in plenty of rain (about six months); stable temperate weather (about 75˚ F / 25˚ C); once you have the above, make sure you plant the best possible Arabica coffee.
Coffee Harvest Time in Guatemala
Yesterday’s photo was a close-up of the coffee bush in the lower left corner of today’s photo. If you click on the image above you can the coffee bushes (the small trees) being harvested under the shadows of the Gravilea trees in San Pedro Las Huertas, La Antigua Guatemala. Around La Antigua Guatemala you can find coffee bushes everywhere, including as part of the hedges of La Compañía de Jesús ruins.