Antigua Street Colors: Green and Lilac
Whenever I roam the streets with my camera, I am hyper aware of color combinations, from the basic complimentary colors of red …
Enjoy the Spring Weather of Antigua Guatemala Now!
Believe it or not, there are a lot of foreigners who have moved in recent months to Antigua Guatemala to hibernate and …
Tourists from Chichicastenango in Antigua Guatemala
We continue our series of tourists visiting Antigua Guatemala with this colorful portrait of a family from Chichicastenango. Follow the white rabbit …
Tourists from San Juan Comalapa
As I said a few weeks ago, often in Antigua Guatemala people when they think of tourists, they think of foreigners who …
The hidden Santa Rosa Ruins of Antigua Guatemala
I am almost certain that most visitors to Antigua Guatemala do not walk through this part of town since it is quite …
Quotidian Vistas from Antigua Guatemala — Sunshine Strollers
If you are still suffering the effects of one of the coldest Winters in decades, don’t suffer any longer, we provide Winter asylum and warm shelter. Heck you can even take strolls on the sunny side of the streets to get the vital vitamin D. What are you waiting for?
Quotidian Vistas from Antigua Guatemala — Windows with Flowers
By the way, I just read this coming week will be one of the coldest in decades in the U.S. and Canada and here now we walk around like it were Summer. So, I wonder what are you still suffering, come on down to enjoy our warm Winter season…
The Haves and the Have Nots
Today you write the caption… I will send a real post card via regular mail to the best caption.
Antigua Makes Me Happy — Take 4
You have to live to believe it… walking around Antigua Guatemala you come across people with a big smile on their faces. …
Daily Life Vistas — Using Maps and Guide Books
The simple grid of avenues and streets and the limited official colour palette are what make Antigua Guatemala so easy to navigate …
Close encounters of the third kind in Antigua Guatemala
Two women worlds apart! That’s the story. This is the sort of thing we do all the time during the Antigua Photo …
Coffee and Wi-Fi Are Us
I don’t know if you can find another place on Earth that has more coffee shops and public access Wi-Fi hotspots per …
Army Day Holiday in Guatemala
Today is observed the Día del Ejército (Army Day holiday) in Guatemala, and tomorrow’s the Día del empleado bancario (Guatemalan Banker’s holiday); …
Smiles in Antigua Guatemala
One of the things one can encounter quite often on the streets of Antigua Guatemala is smiles. Big smiles are everywhere around …
Drinking 1-liter Gallo beer bottles on the streets of Antigua Guatemala
Okay, it’s your turn to caption this photograph. What are your thoughts?
Using a map to get around Antigua Guatemala
“I am telling, it should be here according to this map of Antigua Guatemala, but I just don’t see it,” he said. …
Touring the Antigua Guatemala Villages
I am glad to see more tours around the villages of Antigua Guatemala where visitors get a change to observe and experience …
Antigua Guatemala Tourists
This has to be the high season for tourism during the dry season; everywhere you walk, there are tourist groups. Of course, …
Sheltering from the Rain at the Muni
What to do while it rains? Here are some of the suggestions by our loyal readers. NYChapin: I don’t do much when …
North by Northwest
Often I see visitors to Antigua Guatemala getting lost or asking for directions. It’s kind of interesting since La Antigua Guatemala is …
Walking Is Still The Best Way to Get to Know Antigua
As I mentioned in “Nobody walks in LA…” in Antigua Guatemala is the opposite. People enjoy walking and with such small grid …
Antigua Guatemala Hangouts
There are many hangouts in Antigua Guatemala such cafes, restaurants, bars, pubs, parks, ruins, etc., but Parque Central or main plaza is …
Bicycle Tours Around Antigua Guatemala
Surely enough, riding bicycles is quite possibly one of the best ways to get to see all of Antigua Guatemala and its …
Making the Sale
If you spent any time on Parque Central, this will be one of the most common vistas. If you spend too much …
All Aboard Now
Okay everyone, I am in the Santa Claus mood, so I will send a beautiful set of three 11″x14″ photos from AntiguaDailyPhoto.com …
The Tourists and The Ambulant Vendors
One of the most often seen stamps around the main plaza of Antigua Guatemala is the groups of tourists and ambulant sellers …
Asian Tourists Have Arrived to Antigua Guatemala
…it feels sooo good to know that I’ll be back in one of my favorite cities in the world !! ( though for me it’s more like a nice little village actually, cause people are so kind and open, everyone says hello, you can always find strangers to chat with in Parque Central and when you’re there for two weeks, you always seem to meet the same people all over town almost every day. I so love
Take My Photo or Simple Rainy Season Vista
Call it synchronicity or better yet, serendipity because that’s the story behind this simple rainy season vista. For a while now I …
What time is it?
Yo creo que es hora de regresar a nuestras clases de español (I think it’s time to come back to our Spanish …
Antigua Tours
If you walk around La Antigua Guatemala, quite regularly, you come across groups of tourists taking tours of the city to learn …
I wish you were sitting here
For a long time I did not want to take the same shots from Antigua Guatemala that everybody else does. Also, I …
I wish you were here too, honest!
Elizabeth, I am telling you, he’s going to be regretting it when he also receives this photo with the line: I wish …
I wish you were here, honest!
Elizabeth, watch I am going to take this photo and send it to him with only one line: I wish you were …
Classic Elements of Antigüeño Architecture
Some of you may still remember the image behind the Typical Post Card from La Antigua Guatemala, right? Well, today’s entry is …
Ah, Look at All the Hungry People…
… Where do they all come from? It’s 10 in the morning, perhaps, MO can explain to us what all these people …
Dream of a Sunday Afternoon in Central Park
As much as I like to photograph arches, signs, churches, food, et-cetera; honest, my favorite subject is people. That’s it folks, I’ve …
The Tiny Story of Discrimination, Arrogance and Patronizing in La Antigua Guatemala
ACT 1: So there I was, consumed by own thoughts, after having had a few moments at the Benches at the Museo …
What are you looking at?
There is a “real” story of discrimination, arrogance and patronizing behind today’s photo. If at least ten (10) people request it, I …
Uniformed Tourist Queue
Often, around La Antigua Guatemala, you see long lines of tourist in uniforms; sometimes is just a t-shirt, sometimes is the everything. …
Fully Apple Equipped for La Antigua Guatemala
The tree of knowledge was an apple tree and Newton took a bite from a fallen apple. The rest is history they say, but history is being rewritten as we speak.
Cafe Micho’s at El Jaulón Building
From the tables of Cafe Micho’s, right across yesterday’s fountain, in the corridor facing south of the Jaulón Building, you can meet with friends and family for coffee or beers, or simply enjoy a sandwich from one the best bistros in town. The tables all face to the central patio, with the fountain slightly off-center. You can enter this beautifully restored building from the east and south entrances; from the south entrance you enter the Jaulón building through and arched d
Touring La Antigua Guatemala during the Rainy Season
Touring around Guatemala can be tough during the rainy season, but it can be done… nothing a good raincoat and an umbrella can not solve.
Tourists and shoe-shining boy
Kids should be in school. In Guatemala there are laws for everything you can imagine, including laws against child labor. Yet there …