Puerto Rico was the port that I was looking forward to the most and it didn't disappoint! We got there early in the morning and I was sooo excited to get off the boat. This was our only spanish speaking stop and was full of culture, beaches, city and rainforest.
We started the day by taking a tour of the city. San Juan was so beautiful with old buildings maintained perfectly, and lots of lush greenery on every block.
Who needs concrete barriers, palm trees in pots does the same thing and looks much prettier!
Government Building
The old fort
After seeing San Juan, we then headed out towards el Yunque, the largest rainforest in Puerto Rico and home of the Coqui frogs.
The trees on the left were my favourite! Are they palms? Are they Ferns? I now call them Palm Ferns.
Paul taking a picture of a Tree
The Tree Paul took a picture of: the colours in the bark were amazing...no photoshop here!
We went to this tower in the middle of the Rainforest
This might be one of my favourite pictures of the whole trip...way down on the left you can see the ocean!
At the top of the tower.
Theses trees were amazing, we need to plant some in Canada. The leaves look very similar to maple leaves, but they can tell the difference in humidity levels. They actually use them to be able to tell when it is about to rain! When it's going to rain the bottem-side of the leaves turn silver/white and then when the rain is over they turn back to green!
After Leaving the tower our driver dropped us off to do a hike in the jungle!
I believe we did La Coca Trail.
Stick Bug! Ironically the only wildlife we saw in El Yunque
The next stop was to Coca Falls.
After the waterfalls, we returned to San Juan, where we meandered through old town and the old fort Castillo San Cristobal.
This was the new part of the Fort that the US military used during World War II
Apparently people were shorter back then...
Old Town
Our very last stop in Puerto Rico was to try some of the local food.
We were told Mofongo was a must!
Looking back its pretty crazy to think we did all of that in a short 6 hour time frame!
Very nice. I really enjoyed it.
ReplyDeletePR is a very beautiful and unique place.
Ed L.
Greetings,
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