Hello friends, today I bring you a very scary picture of El Sombrerón, a Guatemalan legend of an espanto or ghost that goes after women with long hair. I caught him on a photograph made at night inside the necropolis of San Lázaro in Antigua Guatemala. This night of Leyendas de Guatemala play was organized … Read more
Often times we get lucky during the photo walks that I lead in La Antigua Guatemala because it seems that there is always something happening around town. We can encounter all sorts of activities and events such as processions and parades [the most common], musical recitals, books fairs, mime and clowns performances, 5k, 10k races, … Read more
El Sombrerón appears at dusk, dragging along a group of mules carrying coal, with whom he travels around the city and its neighborhoods. When a woman corresponds to his love, he ties the mules to the house’s pole where she lives, unhooks his guitar and starts singing and dancing. Some residents from the neighborhoods of … Read more