Here’s your Spanish word of the day: Bledo or amaranth. Bledo, chipilín, macuy, iguashte are part of the comidas de canasta, basket foods, or comidas tanatiadas, bunch foods. In other words, you order a tanate, bunch, of chipilín or bledo or whatever is available. Often though, you order more than one tanate to sample different … Read more
Fact #1: Right now we are in what Guatemalans call the Winter season, although in reality, we are in the middle of the Summer season as Guatemala is located in the Northern Hemisphere. Also. We are also experiencing the worst draught in 35 years. You might not be believe this by looking at today’s photo. … Read more
Look at the light and look a the vibrant greens found in Antigua Guatemala almost at the end autumn and commencement of winter. Can you believe these colors? That’s right, you are looking at the rich, vigorous and brilliant green found in Guatemala year round. Don’t you wish you were here right now?
During the rainy season (May thru October), every hill around La Antigua Guatemala gets a new emerald green dress. In the picture above, we see the hill near La Ermita de La Santa Cruz ruins, right across from the Pensativo River, with a verdant dress made from coffee bushes and gravileas shadow trees in the … Read more