Guatemalan Food and Girls Cooking at Chichicastenango
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The following travel photographs were taken in the spring of 2008 at the
Chichicastenango market in Guatemala. They are of Mayan women eating ice cream,
song birds in cages, Guatemalan woman selling vegetables, cooking pots, and
Guatemalan food.
Mayan women enjoying ice creams on market day in Chichicastenango, Guatemala.
Song birds for sale at the Chichi market in Guatamala.
Mayan woman selling vegetables in Chichicastenango.
Guatemalan cooking pots.
Cooking pots in Guatemala at Chichicastenango.
The Mayan market at Chichicastenango takes place every Thursday and Sunday. There are tourist shuttles from Antigua on these days which leave at 7AM and return at 2PM, or there are plenty of cheap local buses. The town's full name is Santo Tomas Chichicastenango and is in the El Quiche department of Guatemala, and lays at an elevation of 1,965 meters above sea level.
Indigenous Mayan woman in colorful clothing making food at the market.
Guatemalan food. Fried chicken, fried, potatoes, and French fries. I like the food in Guatemala. It is really simple. Just take a chunk of food and fry it up.
Guatemalan girl making tortillas at the market in Chichicastenango. These tortillas are made by covering the corn flour in lime dust and intermittenly patting them flat and cooking.
Shoes for sale at the Chichicastenango market.
Guatemalans getting what they need for the week at Chichi.