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Pictures from trip to Puerto Rico (Jan 4-11, 2005)
The trip to Puerto Rico (la Isla de Encanta) was predominantly a beach-hopping exercise with some rainforest hiking and city exploring thrown in. The beaches naturally leant themselves to various activities like swimming, snorkeling, kayaking, horse-back riding, shell-picking, coconut hitting and breaking, sunbathing, body-surfing and sand-sculpting. The beaches were of different types - high waves, smaller waves, totally calm; had different shades of blue waters and white-yellow sands; different vegetations along the coast - dry bush, mangroves, coconut trees or forests; different kinds of sea-floors - sandy, coral reefs, sea-weeds, rocky. Then, there was the fine food (from mofango to dorado), including the very interesting Indo-Latin restaurant in San Juan. A good place to try out some Spanish since you can readily fall back to English in case things get complicated as most people are bilingual. Puerto Rico embraces various worlds simultaneously - speed limits are in miles per hour, but distances are in kilometers; McDonalds and Burger Kings coexist with Pollo Tropical and Church's Chicken; a nice, though confusing, highway system with chaotic traffic; great food in the restaurants but with service that runs on "island time"; people divided between staying as a US colony, getting statehood and achieving independence.
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