Panoramic vistas and tiny worlds of all the main plazas of the villages of Antigua Guatemala are also among my goals for 2015. The Municipality of Antigua Guatemala is divided into various categories of smaller urban areas: aldeas [villages], caserios [hamlets], barrios [neighborhoods], colonias and lotificaciones [residential communities]. In total, there are now 23 aldeas, … Read more
Once again Parque Central is looking radiant for the Christmas season with the help of over 200,000 lights. It is a very wonderful experience to seat at bench and watch people and look at serendipity at work. Hones, this is too much of a good thing. Come and enjoy it for yourself!
Parque Central, or Central Park, is the heart of Antigua Guatemala. And just as any heart, it pumps fresh new blood through out our colonial town. At Plaza Mayor, Main Square, the official name, one can watch people and see how stories develop. There is always a bench or shaded area to watch the interaction … Read more
I am guilty as charged: I don’t show enough movement in Antigua Guatemala. To fix that, I will begin a series of long exposure photographs to capture movement in Antigua Guatemala. Often, I prefer to focus in the aperture setting of the camera and only a few times I play with the shutter speed to … Read more
Here’s your Spanish word of the day: Burbujas or bubbles. Such simple game to play with kids and adults alike in Antigua Guatemala’s main square. So inexpensive as well and not batteries are required. I believe that as often as possible we should unplug to enjoy the simple pleasures of life. By the way, sometimes … Read more
People watching while sun-bathing are about the most enjoyable activities to do for free in Antigua Guatemala. Can you recall when was the last time you had the chance to seat at a bench in Parque Central and just do nothing while enjoying the warm sun and watch people coming and going?
Tomorrow AntiguaDailyPhoto will be celebrating 8 years of daily multimedia updates from and around Antigua Guatemala. Come and celebrate and let us know what are your favourite photos and posts. I read somewhere that one of the longest relationships one can have is with your siblings, often longer than with our parents. Here I was … Read more
I wonder how many things one can do at Parque Central. I have shared several dozen activities through out the years, I think, but guitar lessons even surprised me. How about you, what’s the strangest thing you have seen at the main square of Antigua Guatemala?
Here are some the notes from the talk “Las Sirenas de La Antigua Guatemala” by Dr. Miguel F. Torres that I attended a few weeks ago. Sirens or mermaids are mythological beings from prehistory. Their origins go as far back as Sumerian and Egyptians gods and survived thanks for Homer’s description of their singing in … Read more
We are on the last leg of the Winter season on the northern hemisphere, that’s where Antigua Guatemala is located, yet we are already experiencing the wonderful Spring climate that Guatemala is known for. This is the typical morning vistas around Parque Central, main square in Antigua Guatemala, excellent weather, if you ask me, to … Read more
There are over 200,000 lights over the trees of La Antigua’s main square. These are the main Christmas lights decorations you will find in Antigua Guatemala. These Christmas lights will illuminate the Parque Central during the Navidad season. For extra bonus points, what date is Christmas season over in La Antigua Guatemala?
Wishful thinking, yeah, I know. Anyhow, let us hope these are the last days of the rainy season 2013 which has been extremely copious since the beginning of September. As I promised once, I will complain less about the rain and try to find the beauty of it. I hope you like it.
In case you don’t know who Enrique Gómez Carrillo was, here are some highlights taken from Wikipedia: Enrique Gómez Carrillo was a Guatemalan literary critic, writer, journalist and diplomat, and the second husband of the Salvadoran-French writer and artist Consuelo Suncin de Sandoval-Cardenas, later Consuelo Suncin, comtesse de Saint Exupéry. Gómez Carrillo became the author … Read more
I ask because it seems that somehow we are drawn to them and I am not sure if it is just the murmur of the fountain of they actually sing and we not resist it. What do you think?
Wow, my kid does look with the sousaphone; I am glad he’s not a piano or guitar player like everyone else; he’s a real sousaphone player. 😉 I will give a penny for your thoughts! Honest. I want to know what are your thoughts now. How are you taken all the recent events and economic … Read more