Warning: Heavy loaded with pics! =)
We stayed in the middle of Old San Juan and it was a few blocks away from the Fort which is breathtaking! We bought tickets for the self tour and it was around $5-$7 can't remember for sure, but it's valid for 7 days entries to both forts.
Old San Juan was just so colorful! I LOVE IT... especially this PINK building!
this is the view from our very own balcony! beautiful in every way but we were right next to a few bars so it's gets a bit too noisy to sleep at night until the weeeee hour.
Our plan was to do a cruise to the Virgin Islands round trip from Puerto Rico and because we are on a budget, we booked our flight in advance and try to book the cruise the very last minute so it's much cheaper. Keep in mind that it may not work out that way but we are totally find with spending 11/12 days in Puerto Rico. I have no problem with that! We did ended up getting our cruise tickets for cheap! Yay! So after the first 2 nights of our trip we left for the cruise then comes back to spend another 2 nights in the new San Juan right on the beach with our booking from Air B&B!
^this is practically our back yard of our condo we booked through Air B&B!
All we did was eat and chill on the beach!
Living out or fantasy of being a mermaid and merman LOL
And of course our signature writing on the sand everywhere we go to!!!! I have enough to serves as a collection to displays at home.... but of course never got to do so.
We booked a car right after we got off the cruise to use for the next two days, of which we used to go to go to El Yunque Rainforest where we hiked and bath under the waterfall! First time for me! BEAUTIFUL!!!!! Plus we get to do it on our own time and our way, which is so much more convenience than taking a tour (I think the cheapest tour I found was $50/person for practically drive you there and take you back to the city ... so we saved at least $200 for the 4 of us) that was pricey and not necessary since driving there and finding the waterfall was so easy and FREE! OMG the view of the drive is just beautiful too!!!!
The tower we came across driving up to the waterfall in the rainforest.
The gorgeous waterfall.... and my hubby is not bad either LOL
it's a good 20-30 hike down to the waterfall from where we parked!
Then after the rainforest, we randomly went to a beach where there's food stalls ect. to eat local food and just chill before we head back to the city.
there's probably zero beach town that we don't like. LOL
The following day we went to see the Window Cave that charges $20/person for a tour of the two caves there, the money goes into preserving the site which is great! I would not recommended though... sure the view is beautiful but the whole process of getting to the "window" to look out is not my cup of tea. Plus it STINKS because those rocks formations were basically the sea base zillions of years ago so there's that fishy smell add on to all the bats poop. You could imagine ...
We also went to the Bacardi ourselves and booked the tour at the distillery. If we booked with a tour office it would cost $50/person but we found out we could do it ourselves and we did with some help from the locals. It's a ferry away across from Old San Juan and each ferry ticket is $0.50!!! YES that's fifty cents!!!! per person each way! Once we got off the ferry, there's a group of people that operates as "taxi" drivers to take you to and from the distillery for $4/person and yes it's the same price for everyone so you don't have to worry about being ripped off. They usually just loaded a full van of like 15 people for each trip though.
Once at the distillery we bought our tour tickets for $12 per adult, and with that included a tour and a free alcoholic drink with a souvenir cup! How can you not be happy right?!!!
We sure were happy!!!!
