Rio Grande Vacations, Rio Grande Vacation Reviews, Tourism Guide

My wife had to work again in some presentations and we stayed at the Rio Mar Hotel. It is located in Rio Grande and from there you can see El Yunque, which is the Tropical Rain forest. The hotel facilities are very nice and the beach was great. Again you will see nature pictures, I can not stop taking them, :) I guess I like nature. By pure coincidence while I was taking pictures of El Yunque another travbuddy member ( missandrea81) was visiting El Yunque. You can see in her blog very nice pi…

Omitting Thursday since we basically lounged at the beach at Rio Mar, but Friday was our tour of El Yunque, the grand rain forest which provides Puerto Rico with much of its water.  Knowing very little, we chose to go on a tour provided by the resort.  Our hopes were satisfied by Manuel, a wonderful tour guide who was quite knowledgeable about El Yunque’s flora & fauna.   Like most of the other locals we interacted with, Manuel had lived in NYC for many year…

Today is our last day and I want to hike down the beach. My friend Lisa and I made this hike (in the rain) when I was here a few years ago, and I liked the undeveloped ruggedness of the beach and trail. Steve and I are lucky to have a sunshine escort, and the walk is just as nice as I remember. Along the way we admire some palm trees spontaneously sprouting from coconuts on the beach, and get some entertainment from a couple hermit crabs. It's still relatively undeveloped, but not for long. …

Today we had only planned one thing. Going to Fajardo to go Kayaking to the bio bay. Our reservations were for 6:30pm so we had the whole day to kill. Of course the first thing I did in the morning was updating you guys! ;) We left San Juan after lunch at Camille's. It's kinda like Panera's in the States. Very yummy. On our way to Fajardo. We passed through Rio Grande again, where we had gone to the emergency room only a week ago. Enid said we had plenty of time to make our appointment so she…