10 Must-Try Foods In Puerto Rico
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Art Museum 2017 | Interior and Gardens | Prior to Hurricane Maria | Explore Puerto Rico
On day 2 we traveled from Mango Mansion to the Art Museum! This was a beautiful space with lots of nice paintings. We also really enjoyed the outdoor gardens as they really added to our experience!
Join me as I give a brief tour of the grounds and gallery showing highlights of what I saw.
The Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico (MAPR), a non-for-profit organization, was inaugurated on July 1, 2000, as a legacy for the Puerto Rican people. The mission of the Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico is to enrich the lives of its diverse audiences by making accessible and promoting the knowledge, appreciation, and enjoyment of visual arts from Puerto Rico and the world. The MAPR engages diverse communities to facilitate learning experiences about the visual arts through: the growth of a well-researched permanent collection exemplifying significant and representative examples of Puerto Rican art from the sixteenth century to the present; a dynamic program of exhibitions supported by engaging and exciting educational and cultural programs that collectively deepen the understanding of the role of the visual arts in the human experience and contribute to the creation of a curatorial legacy; documentation, research, interpretation, preservation, and conservation of the collection and the visual arts patrimony of Puerto Rico; and alliances with local, regional, and international museums and institutions to advance the knowledge of, access to, and understanding of the visual arts of the world. - Google Arts and Culture
This video was recorded prior to Hurricane Maria
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Puerto Rico: Treasure Hunt under the Caribbean Sun
Puerto Rico is more than tropical beaches, sun and rum. As big as Connecticut in the US the tiny state of islands offers green mountains, waterfalls, tropical rainforest, and much more.
Only 3 hours southeast of Miami and 4 from New York and Boston it is in between the Caribbean Sea, Dominican Republic and North Atlantic Ocean. As a US-commonwealth that governs itself it uses the US-Dollar as official currency. You can travel in time into their strong Spanish history and re-discover pirate stories in every corner of the archipelago — and watch out for pirates like Roberto Cofresi or his ancestors.
Despite being an island state, its capital and largest city, San Juan, accounts for the highest density of vehicles on the road of any country in the world - 4,300 vehicles per paved mile. It is the oldest city in this hemisphere and builds the South corner of the infamous and mysterious Bermuda Triangle.
San Juan is however your best starting point into the Puerto Rican adventure and learning journey with ON BOARD, where you visit all the popular places and a dozen other ones people barely know of.
You will meet locals in their home towns to make their reality be a mentor for your life, see busy San Juan in the North, relax in laid-back Ponce in the South, admire the Spanish colonial architecture in San Germán, and get to know Puerto Rico’s native people (the Taíno Indians) and learn about them in their former settlement in Bayamón. Get adventurous in the Central Mountain Range (covering sixty percent of the country) and dine fine in the rich gastronomy of Mayagüez.
And when you’re heading very East, Fajardo welcomes you as the starting point to the islands of Vieques, Culebra and La Cordillera with one of Puerto Rico’s three bioluminescent bays that glow in the dark!
Go back in time, into the 16th and 17th century, to pay a visit to El Morro with walls as high as cliff divers jump from or The San Juan Gate, a 6 meters-thick door that protected the city from invaders.
Puerto Rican culture lives through their indigenous Taíno ancestry and strong North American, Caribbean and Spanish influence. Therefore Spanish is the language of daily life but you can get along with English relatively well.
In Old San Juan, for example, you should try their traditional meal of pork, rice and beans. And taste their stew called „asopao“ or „mofongo“ that consists of seafood, meat or vegetables and mashed plantains on top.
Out of the city you wanna explore the rain forest, deserts, coastal lowlands, karst area, oceans and rivers. Sadly, El Yunque is the only remaining (tropical) rain forest system in Puerto Rico and the US, with the size of approx. 16,000 soccer fields.
You find thousand varieties of tropical plants like poinciana, flaming red blooms, huge kapok trees, sugarcane or fruits like pineapples, plantains or bananas.
And if you’re a spelunker, there are over 200 caves to explore in the Río Camuy Cave Park, or you may wanna snorkel, dive, surf or sail along the 270 miles of white-sand beach and its beautiful coral reefs in front.
Meet the Galápagos Islands of the Caribbean Sea: Mona and Monito Island. No offshore islands within the US territory offers such ecological uniqueness and biological diversity in such a small area.
Explore Puerto Rico in our learning journey around the island in 2016. As a US citizen you don’t even need a passport to visit San Juan, or any other part of Puerto Rico, and you can send letters and postcards to anywhere in the US for regular domestic postal rates.
And when you ask a Puerto Rican about their nationality, don’t be surprised when they answer: „I’m as Puerto Rican as a coquí“, a small tree frog being their most popular national symbol that demonstrates resilience and strength. Exactly this is what the indigenous Taíno have been showing in their history when they were close to extinction, just like the coquí. And we don’t want that to happen any time in the future.
So. Grab your gear, pack your bag, apply and join us in Puerto Rico: beonboard.org/puertorico
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