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Guatemala News | May 2007
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Jaunted in Antigua: Desayuno Tipico @ Fernando's Kaffee
Fernando's Kaffee does Guatemalan breakfast best. The perfectionist owner has mastered each facet of desayuno tipico, from the warm, doughy tortillas to the soft, fried plantains and the exquisite coffee, made onsite and sold to Ferndando's followers in air-sealed bags. We discovered the place a few feet down the street from our hostel in Antigua on 7 Avenida Norte. Fernando sits in the foyer, lined with roasting machines...
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Viernes Santo by Felipe
My brother-in-law Felipe is not only a much better photographer than I am, he also has a far superior professional digital camera. It is therefore his images of the Good Friday processions that I will promote here first.
There are three main processions around La Antigua on Viernes Santo. The first which emerges from La Merced at about 5am is more or less a re-run of the Palm Sunday procession as far as I could tell, except that there is some Roman cavalry and the cucuruchos all carry lances. (So no shopping bags possible this time!)...
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Turquoise pools and misty temples
From the town of Coban, Guatamala we arranged a tour which took us through the depressingly deforested hills to a remote protected area. The area encompasses the gorgeous river and pools of Semuc Champey carved into the limestone rock of the area. A short hike into the park brought us along the river and up to the beautiful turquoise pools. We then headed up the steep path in the morning heat and intense humidity through the forest up to an incredible lookout high above the pools...
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Terms Related To Guatemalan Adoptions
Friday is a great day to wrap things up, so I'm going to explain some of the terms people have used in their search engines that have brought them to my blog. May I also suggest that if you don’t find the information you are looking for, or would prefer privacy, just email your question(s) directly to me. Many people have fostered in Antigua, and my fellow Guatemalan Blogger’s wife fostered their daughter Mia there. An “e-pal” of mine is there at present with her adorable daughter M. It sounds like they have been having a remarkably wonderful time together. They’ve just gotten out of PGN, and I wish them a “speedy pink” as we say....
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Don't Adopt In Guatemala
Something is obviously wrong when Guatemala, the 67th most populous country in the world, ranks second to China, the country with the largest population, in the number of children it sends through adoption to the United States.
As a percentage of its population, 12.29 million, Guatemala is a larger source for adoptive babies than China, with 1.37 billion residents. Adoptions from Guatemala reached 4,135 last year, compared with 6,493 from China. Russia, with a population of 142.9 million, sent only 3,706 children to the United States....
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Art & Soul & Documentaries in the Land of Eternal Spring
I call the course “The Art and Soul of Documentary Editing”. I am working with a group of young people on an intensive one-week workshop at Casa Comal, a community media center in Guatemala City.
For seven years Casa Comal has almost single-handedly built a skills base in cinema basics among young people here. I first met the “Comales” (as they call themselves) four years ago when they invited me to show our 1983 release “When the Mountains Tremble” in its first public presentation in Guatemala, after having been informally banned for 20 years, seen only in clandestine screenings during that time. It was an unforgettable night, but that’s another story. Suffice it to say that I’d been looking for a way to come back to Guatemala and do something with Casa Comal ever since. ...
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Guatemala, by bus and boat...
After making our last stop in Mexico at an open-air breakfast buffet where parrots hang out with the hopes of being fed the supplied sunflower seeds by the passing tourists, I continued on towards the Mexico-Guatemala boarder with a bus load of (mostly)backpacking Europeans.
There’s no overly convenient boarder crosing between Chiapas and northern Guatemala. You take a bus to the middle-of-nowhere Mexico, hunt down the immigration office, get your passport stamps, then climb in a small boat and ride down the river for a half hour ’till you meet the nearest road on the Guatemalan side of the boarder where you pile in another bus. A much crappier bus...
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Fuego Volcanoe
Fuego Volcano is located between Sacatepequez and Chimaltenango departments, on the central region of Guatemala. With an altitude of 3763 meters, Fuego volcano it’s one of the most impressive of the 38 volcanoes spread throughout the country, and is definitely the most active of them all. It’s peak, covered with ashes and lava rocks from previous eruptions, makes a great contrast with the vegetation that covers it’s twin brother: Acatenango Volcano....
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Rough Guides Gets It Right :: Guatemala City
Guatemala City (or Guate as it's referred to locally) has a distinct flavor. There are rickety urban buses roaring along in thick black clouds of diesel, trawling for ever more passengers. There's the shocking contrast between the glitzy Zona Viva, home to luxury hotels, gourmet restaurants and trendy nightclubs and the poverty-stricken outlying shantytowns.
Our Take: Everyone warned us of the perils of Guatemala City. Co-workers and friends shared with us friends' of friends' of friends' horror stories, and instructed us to leave the airport and head immediately to Antigua...
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