blogs about Puerto Rico

El Morro de Puerto Rico

juanfigs — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 13:10:49 -0800

El Morro de Puerto Rico is one of the places most visited by tourist that go to Puerto Rico every year. First because El Morro is in old San Juan which is the area where most of the tourists stay or at least is really close to the most visited Puerto Rico Hotels. El Morro is also known as Castillo de San Felipe del Morro. The constructions started in the year 1540.

A little more about Puerto Rico

juanfigs — Wed, 07 Nov 2007 11:17:04 -0800

About Puerto Rico, What else can I say? I just want to share a little more information about the Island Puerto Rico. Most of the people, tourist that go to Puerto Rico every year they normally stay in the north of the Island San Juan because that’s the place that you can find most of the Clubs, Hotels and few beaches.

Earthquakes, Gamblers, Pirates and Oysters: Around the World in 60 Days

jani — Thu, 17 May 2007 09:02:44 -0700

It all started with an excuse. I "needed" to visit a conference of marginal utility (but serious potential for fun) in Puerto Rico, which would be located 11913 miles away from Singapore if there was a non-stop flight, which there of course isn't.

It's all starting to blurr together...

maj — Fri, 20 Apr 2007 19:16:37 -0700

There's that day, usually about half-way into a vacation (preferably to a tropical island with friends), when you stop thinking of the First Day or the Third Day or Four-Days-Until-I-Go-Home and just think about "today." I seemed to have reached that point, because I'm having a really hard time sorting out which day was which great beach or fantastic meal. I'm sure I have everyone's sympathy...

Around the island in 8 days

evan — Thu, 19 Apr 2007 07:23:38 -0700

We've had some pretty intense driving around rural Puerto Rico in the last two days. Tuesday morning we hit the road westward from Ponce to San Germán, a small inland colonial-era city known for its architecture. It was a nice place to stop -- we took some good pictures and walked around the towns two plazas. But the unbearable Puerto Rican tendency towards traffic jams made the visit barely worth the trouble. We were glad when we got on the road again, south towards Parguera.

Poco loco público

jani — Wed, 18 Apr 2007 19:12:54 -0700

This little island's got a lot of things going for it, but public transport ain't one of them.

My mission, should I choose to accept it, was to make my way from Ponce, Puerto Rico's second-largest city (pop. ~200,000), to San Juan, its largest (pop. ~2 million). One might assume this would be easy; one would be wrong.

Get-together Day 4: Ponce & beyond!

maj — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 21:18:58 -0700

Arecibo ObservatoryWow, we've been going all out the last couple of days-- Yesterday we went from San Juan, over the hills and through the jungle to Arecibo and then over the jungle and through the hills to Ponce on the amazingly dry (as in dying cactus dry) Southern coast.

If it's Tuesday, this must be Ponce

evan — Tue, 17 Apr 2007 07:01:25 -0700

I'm in the extremely pleasant balcony hallway of the awesome Hotel Melia in Ponce, Puerto Rico. Everyone's getting ready to go for a trip to the west of the island, so I thought I'd take a few moments to blog about the last few days.

Get-together Day 2: Old San Juan, beaches & mufungo

maj — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 20:19:05 -0700

This morning we tried to get an early start to cram as much in as possible. We started with another envigorating breakfast for sugared cereal and industrial coffee and grabbed a taxi into the Old City to check out the other amazing old fort overlooking the sea.

Get-together Day 1: Beach & Old San Juan

maj — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 19:47:27 -0700

Amita and Evan on Condado BeachI slept pretty good last night, despite the fact that the three of us (Evan, Amita June,