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: 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 — Masked girls carrying water jars home
Pandemic or not, life moves on and things that are necessary at home must still be procured, such food, medicine and water …
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 …
Pandemic Sights: Fast Food To Go Only
Welcome to the new normality in Antigua Guatemala. Restaurants can only serve to go or delivery; thus their gorgeous dining areas remained …
Pandemic Sights: Farmer’s Market Stand
Not everything is bad about the Cover-19 pandemic. Farmer’s Markets and local fruit and veggie stands are popping up everywhere. For instance, …
Pandemic Sights: Garbage Collection
Here’s your illustrated Guatemalan Spanish word of the day: Basura for either trash, garbage or rubbish, depending on which side of the …
Pandemic Sights: Empty Streets
Another common sight of this pandemic is empty streets; especially with the reduced mobility regulations we are experiencing in Guatemala. Depending on …
Pandemic Sights: Face Masks on Everyone
In Guatemala face masks are obligatory everywhere outside of your home. Even though face masks have been a common sight in other …
Queue To Order Food to Go in Calle del Arco
In Guatemala all the restaurants were forced to close their dining areas, so queues outside for food pick-up or to order to …
Sights of Out Times: Face Masks on Everyone
Here’s your illustrated Spanish word of the day: Mascarilla for face mask. Well, mascarilla is the most often used word in Guatemala, …
Tailor Turns into Face Mask Maker
Here’s your illustrated Spanish word of the day: Sastre for tailor. In this challenging times many of us we have to reinvent …
Message to the World: Everything is going to be alright!
Let the walls in Antigua speak: Todo va estar bien or everything is going to be alright. Especially if we have beer …
Sights of Our Times — Nearly Empty Streets
La Calle del Arco, actually 5th avenue, is the landmark street of Antigua Guatemala and certainly always packed with people, except during …
Sights of Our Times — Doing Errands with Masks
Masks are obligatory in Guatemala whenever you head out of your home. Even though masks are a common sight in other parts …
Sights of Our Times — Food Delivery Apps
In Guatemala restaurant food is delivered in motorcycles. Even the food delivery apps use motorcycle drivers with color brand backpacks. Today I …
Sights of Our Times — Restaurants Open Only for Take Away and Delivery
Since March 16, 2020 restaurants are allowed to operate for take away and delivery order only. Many had to adapt to selling …
Sights of Our Times — Face Masks and Tuk Tuk Bars
Face masks are obligatory to use outdoors in Guatemala at present time. I imagine it is the same, more or less, all …
Antigua Awaits You!
Since many of you might still be under lockdown or quarantine regulations [that’s the case in Guatemala] and traveling is still out …
Ambulant Vendor Waiting for Tourists
Ambulant vendors are one segment of the tourism industry who is really hurting this pandemic where tourists pretty much vanished from the …
14th Anniversary — Only Shopping for the Essentials
AntiguaDailyPhoto.com began on May Day 2006 with the goal of sharing daily life imagery from the little town of Antigua Guatemala, embedded …
A Typical Vista from Our Times
Antigua Guatemala is so photogenic that even under quarantine, lockdown and curfew still looks amazing, don’t you agree? Here’s one of favorite …
Good Friday in San Pedro Las Huertas, Antigua Guatemala
Even though Antigua Guatemala is the top destination in the world for the Holy Week celebrations, many destination through out Guatemala also …
The Quietest Holy Week Ever in Antigua Guatemala!
With all the borders closed, including the airport; all non-essential activities forbidden, including religious services, processions and vigils; plus all gatherings prohibited, …
Atypical Vista from Antigua Guatemala
I imagine lots of people are in need to visit their churches and have mass or religious services; especially catholics during the …
Adapt or Perish
Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative. — H. G. Wells (1866-1946) I have always admired the speed at …
Juntos Resurgiremos — Together We Will Re-emerge
As we enter our 4th week of health and economic crisis, I see messages of hope posted on walls all over. Certainly, …
A Quiet Palm Sunday in Antigua Guatemala
2020 will be remembered as the quiet year; a year without processions; a year without massive events; a year without crowds. Yet …
Atypical Morning Vista of Calle del Arco
Even though there were still a lot of people on the streets on the first two days of April, mostly cashing paychecks …
Almost a Ghost Town
I could have never imagined desolate streets during the most important week of the year: the Holy Week of Antigua Guatemala, how …
Antigua Guatemala’s Street and Cerro de la Cruz
Any other year, this week the streets of Antigua Guatemala would be packed with people, processions and beautiful Semana Santa carpets. Now, …
Things Will Get Better
Things will get better, stay safe, stay strong, stay tele-connected with loved ones and stay actively creative. Take advantage of all the …