I believe this is the first trip we went on using credit card points. Costa Rica was originally on our list, but we did not have enough points. So Puerto Rico it is! I’m so glad we came. Puerto Rico is kind of like America’s basement; as in you don’t often think of it and there is a lot of cool stuff down here!
We flew into San Juan airport. Our airbnb was located just East and outside of San Juan in Santurce, a trendy local neighborhood that was very walkable, had lots of restaurants, shopping, and was only a block from the beach.
One of the things I was most looking forward to was the Coconut Revolution Experience. This is a tour offered through AirBnB. We learned all about the coconut and how to survive on a deserted island. We ate some native plants, climbed a coconut tree, made a shelter. We learned that if our island has coconut trees we would be more likely to survive. Coconut trees will provide food, water, shelter, and fire.
Another thing I wanted to do/see was to visit a rum distillery. We visited two out of the three on the island! Ron de Barillito (rum of the small barrel) and Bacardi.
We didn’t know when/if we were ever going to get back to P.R. so we wanted to see as much of the island as we could. From the north (San Juan) we traveled to the south. P.R. has an excellent tollroad highway system that allowed us to travel all over the island in a fraction of the time it took us to travel the regular roads. The toll is relatively inexpensive too. Don’t mess around with the surface streets unless you like traffic and cities.
There were two more tours that we did, but did not take pictures because we were in and out of the water. The first was the Arceibo body rafting tour. We drove out to Arceibo (where the telescope is), put on life vests, helmets, walked up hill in the jungle and body rafted down some rapids! The second experience we did was the bio-luminescent bay tour. Snorkeled in a bay and explored some P.R. sea life, then traveled by boat to a remote bay where the glow-in-the-dark critters lived. Wow! It was like floating with stars or pixie dust.
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