blogs about San Juan

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.

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.

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.

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.

Planes, Chickens and Automobiles

Sapphire — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 19:34:08 -0700

My Puerto Rican adventure began on April 13th. My flight left at 5:20 (AM) the next day, but I decided to get a head start, check my luggage and then sleep until 4 or so in the morning. Well, I didn't get to the airport around 11 and ended up leaving my guide papers and everything that would have been useful in my dad's car. Apparently, the airport checkin desks close at 22:00 so I couldn't check my luggage, but I did (after a hassle) manage to get the self-checkin-in kiosk to cough up a boarding pass.

Wikitravel Get-together: first 24 hours

evan — Sat, 14 Apr 2007 09:34:28 -0700

Maj, Amita June and I got off yesterday pretty well from Montreal. It was a bit of a rush at the last minute, since we decided to meet with our general contractor for house renovations just before going to the airport. (Yeah, I never thought I'd have a general contractor or do house renovations, either.)

There was snow a foot deep in Montreal when we left. It's been a crazy April in Quebec, and a little bit depressing. I love snow more than anyone I know, and even I am starting to get sick of it. Spring already! C'mon!