Puerto Rico Travel Blogs - Page 2

Okay, if you have read Yadi's blog about all these accidents that had occured they were certainly happening to Francisco!! 1. The Motorcycle accident K Thats scary and we were all amazed that Frank was fine and still having as much fun as if nothin happened 2. Rain! We had such luck with endin…

We decided to do some local tourism on Sunday, therefore we went to Rincon, it is located in the western part of the island. It is about two and half hour drive from San Juan if you go thru the north using expressway 22. Sometimes in January you can watch whales, but this time we were not lucky. Ho…

I arrived in San Juan, rented a car at the airport and checked in a hotel downtown on Isla Verde, San Juan. The next morning drove to Rincon (3 hour drive and many highway tolls) Stayed at the hostel - Rincon Inn. I spent my time surfing, snorkling, and socializing. Lots of rum. It was a blast...I flew home on a different airline than planned, because my plane broke down right before I boarded. Goodthing!...here's some pics from trip.

Castillo de San Cristobal sits on a limestone cliff 150 feet above the sea. There are five separate units spread over more than 27 acres. All units are connect by moats and tunnels, however, each unit was self-sufficient in case a portion of the fortress should fall to the enemy. The first&nbs…

One of my best friends from university, Rachel, came to visit me in Fort Lauderdale for her spring break this year. Seeing as though I am always looking to go somewhere myself, I ended up finding fairly inexpensive flights to San Juan and convinced her to go with me for 2 days! Everyone t…

So, I NEEDED to get away for spring break (or go nutty) and after exploring various options to visit friends to no avail, I somewhat randomly chose Puerto Rico (and when I say randomly I mean the ticket was cheaper than most :)) While flying to Portland over a year ago I met this guy who was livin…

We ended up going back to Blue Beach a couple of days because it was just so beautiful and picturesque. The most people we counted on the beach was about 5 one day and there were plenty of times when we were the only people on the beach. Talk about postcard perfect!

Our sixth day was the day that we flew home. This was sad because we had to leave. We didn't get to do several things because of the hurricane. There was so much that we wanted to do but didn’t because of Dean.  But I will return back to Puerto Rico to do all those things at a later tim…

Took a nice long weekend in Puerto Rico before the stress of finals set in.  We stayed at the Normandie Hotel right next to the Caribe Hilton, and used the Hilton's beach area. They have a great hammock area and they had this cool inflatable iceberg looking thing in the water. I tried abo…

Random roadtrip around Puerto Rico. (1 week)

We flew back the next day to San Juan, Puerto Rico to get ready with our Eastern Caribbean Cruise. It was  then time to return our rented car. The traffic sign was so bad that i got lost for half an hour,, and i  ended up going against the traffic on a one way road; good thing that i…

San Juan and Culebra Island, Puerto Rico

Puerto Rico was gorgeous! We visited El Morro, stayed on Isle Verde Beach (Carolina), drank pina coladas, rented jet skiis (my first time!), bought handmade jewelry in Old San Juan and listened to a fantastic SALSA band in the lobby of a local resort..

Puerto Rico La temperatura diaria promedio es de 25.5ºC (77.9ºF) en las partes bajas y 18.5ºC (65.3ºF) en regiones sobre los 1,000 metros (3,289 pies). Recibe unas 200 pulgadas (500 cm) anuales de lluvia.

As a newbie boricua, I will try to describe this island from new eyes and give some helpful tips.  First of all, one of my reasons for moving here was to learn Spanish. Unfortunately (or fortunately), most locals especially in the metropolitan area speaks English. If you find yourself in the s…