Reply #4: well you're missing a damn good thing

[pitohui]

puerto rico is damn nice, i don't even have words for how impressive it is, their old quarter makes the new orleans french quarter look a little sad by comparison, their beautiful old forts are just out of this world

damn good food too

the rain forest and the dry forest just a short drive away if you're into hiking

the "bio" bay where you glow in the dark as you swim!

the fishing, the birding

i dunno

i think you're missing a good thing, i wish somebody had told me about it years before

i personally think it's nicer than hawaii, but maybe it's because the birds are better, the hawaiian birds are essentially extinct and they are mostly introductions, the puerto rican birds are mostly real and a nice mix of true exotics and our own birds on vacation




check it out, puerto rican tody and you can practically walk up to these dudes in some places

oh here's another photo:



have you ever visited another place where even the slum is scenic, that's la perla from el morro fort in san juan, the picture's a bit rough, in person, the buildings are all different pastels and the sea quite blue although rough -- yeah, a slum on the sea in pastel buildings, got to be only a matter of time before it's gentrified