Last year, this new year, life goes on for this father and son carrying their load of wood fuel back home. In general, life changes very little for the people who live in the villages of Antigua Guatemala.
Thanks to the all the coffee plantations around Antigua Guatemala and the yearly pruning of the gravilea trees, the shadow trees most often used in the coffee fields around here, there is a constant supply of renewal wood fuel in the area. If you want to learn more about the use of wood as fuel … Read more
Often I think that Antigua Guatemala is not Guatemala. La Antigua Guatemala is a bubble where the Guatemalan reality is warped. Then, I come across vistas like this one of people carrying leña, wood fuel, or water. Or I drive over the many potholes on a 500-meter piece of road from Antigua Guatemala to San … Read more
The first time I posted the use of wood as fuel here, I was against it. By the second time I shared a photo of wood being used as leña, wood fuel, I had learnt that not all instances of the use of wood as fuel were bad from an article that appeared in National … Read more