Sights of Our Times: Walking Through Deserted Streets
Walking is the preferred way to get around Antigua Guatemala as the city still small enough that one can walk from end …
Sights of Our Times: Walking The Dogs
I guess bicycles can be used as another way to ‘walk’ with our dogs and exercise at the same time. Well, I …
Sights of Our Times: Bicycles Are Again a Popular Means of Transportation
As I mentioned last month, bicycles are again quite popular as means of transportation in and around Antigua Guatemala during the pandemic …
Sights of Our Times: Trucks Used As Public Transportation
As I have mention before, public transportation was forbidden at the start of the pandemic Covid-19 in March 16 throughout Guatemala. People …
Sights of Our Times: Waiting for the “Old Normal” Life
I wonder who many of us are waiting futilely for the “old normality” to come back. I know one way or another, …
Sights of Our Times: Part of the Market Setting up at the Compañía de Jesús Atrium
As part of the effort to bring the rate of infection to the colors orange or even yellow, the Ayuntamiento of La …
Sights of Our Times: Gradual Opening of Dining Areas
As part of the gradual aperture phase in Guatemala, coffee shops and restaurants are opening their dining areas making sure they keep …
Sights of Our Times: Public Works Don’t Stop
Everyone is wearing a mask in Antigua Guatemala; municipal employees are no exception. I believe the face mask usage compliance is nearly …
Sights of Our Times: Purified Water Delivery
Here’s your illustrated Guatemalan Spanish word of the day: Garrafón for demijohn. Purified water was deemed to be an essential service and …
Sights of Our Times: Welcome to Centro Cultural Real Palacio
Deserted streets, ruins and cultural centers is one of the direct effects of the pandemic. If you were here now, you can …
Sights of Our Times: Colossal Volcán de Agua Towering the Colorful City of Antigua Guatemala
Welcome to the New Normal! When you look at a vista like this one of Volcán de Agua towering at end south …
Sights of Our Times: Santiago Banners at Antigua’s City Hall
Here’s your illustrated Guatemalan Spanish word of the day: Ayuntamiento for City Hall. Since this year the city of Antigua Guatemala could …
Sights of Our Times: Deserted Tanque de La Unión
Parque de La Unión is one of the most populars parks in Antigua Guatemala with its gorgeous and eye-catching public washbasins and …
Sights of Our Times: Deserted Parque Central
Believe it or not, Parque Central formerly the most crowded park of Antigua Guatemala, now stays deserted, except for the pigeons, of …
Sights of Our Times: Bicycle Riding Through Alameda El Calvario
Bicycles and motorcycles have always been quite popular means of transportation in and around Antigua Guatemala since the distances are short and …
Sights of Our Times: Closed Churches and Temples
Guatemala began a gradual re-opening; reducing the curfew from 6pm-5am to 9pm-4am everyday; no more weekend total lockdowns. Public transportation will start …
Sights of Our Times: Masks, Gloves, Soap and Sanitizing Gel Everywhere
Even though I have focus mostly on the face masks or face coverings, there are other things that we find everywhere, from …
Sights of Our Times: An Uneventful Día de Santiago in Antigua Guatemala
July 25th is the Day of Saint James, Día de Santiago, the patron saint of Antigua Guatemala, formerly known as Santiago de …
Sights of Our Times — Fresh Produce Directly from the Farm
As I mentioned before, Guatemalans are resilient. People are doing everything to survive and put food on the table. And that’s how …
Sights of Our Times — Doing Laundry at the Public Washbasins
Even the most mundane activities of our lives have been affected by the pandemic Covid-19, as you can see in this photograph …
Sights of Our Times — Mayan Fabric Masks
Guatemala is world-famous for their colorful and intricate, hand-woven textiles, so it comes as no surprise that masks were with these Mayan …
Sights of Our Times — Queue at The Veggie Stand
Queues are part of this new normality. Keeping a healthy physical distance, 1.5 meter at a least, is part of our new …
Sights of Our Times — Pigeons at Parque Central
Parks are still closed so pigeons are the only ones enjoying Parque Central on beautiful sunny morning in Antigua Guatemala. I am …
Sights of Our Times — Exercising During the Pandemic
Exercising is definitely one of the activities that has suffered the most. Gyms are closed in Guatemala. Whenever in public spaces one …
Sights of Our Times — Pruning and weeding with a face mask
As I mentioned yesterday, through Pandemic Photo Project I am sharing images of the new normality for Guatemalans even though we have …
Sights of Our Times — Walking the Dogs
Through the Pandemic Photo Project I have been sharing sights of how the new normality will look like for the short-term and …
Sights of Our Times — Smiles Behind Masks
A chance encounter at the pharmacy provided the opportunity to capture the portraits of these three Mayan women. One of them said …
Sights of Our Times — Hot Tourist Spots Sans Visitors
Finally we have a gradual re-opening date for Guatemala: July 27. The re-opening will be gradual and by municipalities [counties] using a …
Sights of Our Times — The Show Must Go On
A Mayan woman set up a pop-up pottery shop as life must go on under the conditions set by this new reality. …
Sights of Our Times — Wear Masks Outdoors
Guatemalans are wearing masks in all public spaces, indoors and outdoors, even as in trails in nature, such as seen here where …
Sights of Our Times — All Clerks Must Wear a Face Mask
Even though the government has been providing freely face coverings ever since it was instituted that face masks were mandatory and those …
Sights of Our Times — Wheelbarrow Fresh Produce Stand
Farmers often turn a wheelbarrow into a fresh produce stand minutes later after harvesting the vegetables and fruits from their plots, as …
Sights of Our Times — Even farmers wear a face covering
In Guatemala even farmers wear a face mask whenever they are outdoors and in public spaces. They may not use a face …
Sights of Our Times — Motorcycles and bicycles are the preferred vehicles during the pandemic.
Since mid June automobiles and trucks can only circulate every other day if the license plate number is even or odd and …
Sights of Our Times — Compulsory Masks
Ever since face masks became obligatory in public spaces in Guatemala back in March, people have complied nearly 99.99% of the time. …
Sights of Our Times — Coconut Ambulant Vendor
We continue with another installment of the Pandemic Photo Project from Antigua Guatemala with a candid shot of the coconut vendor catching …
Sights of Our Times — White Flags: Job Wanted
Not everyone waving a white flag is asking for food or economic assistance to feed their family. Some people waving a white …
Sights of Our Times — White Flags
Guatemala came to standstill on March 16, 2020 and with a single declaration of state of calamity and lockdown a large number …
Sights of Our Times — Veggie Home Deliveries
As I said yesterday, Guatemalans are resilient. Motorcycles and bicycles have turned into the preferred vehicles for all home deliveries. Of course, …
Sights of Our Times — Guatemalans are resilient!
With so many people who have lost their jobs or their main source of income, pop-up stands are showing up everywhere to …
Sights of Our Times — Lottery tickets vendors waiting for clients
Honestly, I wonder how many people are still buying lottery tickets. Covid-19 has proven to be a formidable virus, turning the world …
Sights of Our Times — Shoe shiners waiting for clients
Just like many ambulant vendors, shoe shiners must find a way to generate some income to put food on the table during …
Sights of Our Times — Doing Errands
Back in May 2006 I set out to share with y’all images of daily life from Antigua Guatemala and its surroundings even …