Dec 2009 - Puerto Rico
For my birthday, we took a December trip to Puerto Rico. What a good decision! I had been wanting to go for years. There are pictures of Spanish forts, old San Juan, the rain forest, and beaches!
For my birthday, we took a December trip to Puerto Rico. What a good decision! I had been wanting to go for years. There are pictures of Spanish forts, old San Juan, the rain forest, and beaches!
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| There are two spanish forts in Old San Juan. You can see both of them along the coast there | Iguanas everywhere | The lawn inside the first fort |
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| Along the coast, the government center | The flags that fly over the fort: The top is the old spanish military flag, which has been flying over this fort for pretty much 400 years | There was a tunnel connecting two parts of the first fort |
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| The other fort up the coast, with some of Old San Juan in between | A stack of cannonballs in the fort | |
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| The entrance to the 2nd fort. This is the only place where I have seen national park rangers with weapons | ||
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| A very interesting lighthouse | ||
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| Some really old cannons | The exterior wall of the fort. Try to scale that! | |
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| One of the sentry towers | The view from the restrooom | Another little fort that was over by our hotel |
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| Old San Juan | The cathedral of San Juan Bautista is the second oldest cathedral in the western hemisphere | |
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| Ready for Christmas | A nice statue of Columbus | |
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| Sharla and I hanging out in Old San Juan in the evening | The rain forest, in the eastern part of Puerto Rico, extending out to the sea | |
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| We did some hiking, and the trail through the forest was fantastic | ||
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| It was freezing cold at first, but you got used to it quickly | ||
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| Sharla and I are natives! | A fantastic beach over by the rain forest | |
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| The water was warm and clear! Perfect! | Coconut water | |
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| Our hotel | ||