Driving from Ceiba to Playa Guayanes in Yabucoa, Puerto Rico
After exploring the beaches of Roosevelt Roads in Ceiba, we are going to drive south along the coast in search of another beach, Playa Guayanes in Yabucoa.
Our route today is going to take us south along Puerto Rico Highway 53 which is a main tollway that is parallel to Puerto Rico Highway 3. Running from Fajardo to Salinas, it borders the entire eastern and southeastern coasts of Puerto Rico. Our drive today will take us through some fertile valley areas that produces most of the island's plantain and bananas. This area was also once known for it sugar production.
Off in the distance there is the southern part of El Yunque National Forest. If you plan to visit El Yunque, and you should, you'll want to use the northern entrance to the Forest because the southern entryway has been closed for years and you can only get a short distance into the Forest.
Interstate highways and expressways in Puerto Rico connect all areas of the island and make it pretty easy to get to any area of the island quickly. The expressways are tollways whose funding are collected by a system of tolls. Most tollbooths accept AutoExpreso, an electronic toll collection system, to avoid traffic congestion and allow you to drive through without stopping. If you rent a car in Puerto Rico, the EutoExpreso pass is generally included.
Puerto Rico's balmy south coast is known as the Porta Caribe (gateway to the Caribbean) and is the only part of Puerto Rico that faces the Caribbean Sea. The waves are calmer here and the air drier than elsewhere on the island. Because there are far fewer beaches means there will be fewer visitors in this area.
Guayanés beach has calm waves and wide areas of sand, but few visitors today. Most of the beaches on this south side of the island are not as groomed as those in other parts of the island.
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Puerto Rico Family Vacation
We took a trip to Puerto Rico, going to Luquillo, El Yunque, Vieques, Culebra, and Old San Juan. We stayed in 4 great AirBnBs and loved every minute of our trip! If you have any questions don't hesitate to ask. A great way to help the Island recover is by going there and spending your money, sounded like a plan for us.
DFW to SJU, Stayed in Luquillo at this AirBnB
After a flat tire, ticket, hike around El Yunque and beach time we took the ferry to Vieques. We spent time all over the island exploring, while our bio bay tour was canceled we made the best of it and got to go snorkeling with sea turtles before flying to Culebra on Vieques Airlink.
Culebra was great and we stayed in an awesome AirBNB called Casa Rosado
We then flew to San Juan and got to spend some time in Old San Juan, our AirBNB was a great location.
If you want to give us a house in PR give us a call.
Ponce in Puerto Rico, travel , church, cross, tourism, museum, Plaza Las Delicias
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The Lions Fountain in Plaza Las Delicias
The city has been christened as Museum City for its many quality museums.[141][142] All museums in Ponce are under municipal government administration. On September 15, 2004, the last four museums not under local control were transferred from the Institute of Puerto Rican Culture to the Ponce Municipal Government by act of the Puerto Rico Legislature.[143] However, these four museums (Casa Armstrong Poventud, Casa Wiechers-Villaronga, Museo de la Música Puertorriqueña, and Casa de la Masacre) continue to be controlled by the ICP.[144][145] Downtown Ponce in particular features several museums and landmarks.[146]
Plaza Las Delicias, the town's main square, features a prominent fountain (namely, the Lions Fountain), the Ponce Cathedral, and Parque de Bombas, an old fire house, now a museum, that stands as an iconic symbol of the city and a tribute to the bravery of its firefighters. This plaza is also a usual gathering place for ponceños. Other buildings around Ponce's main plaza include the Casa Alcaldía (Ponce City Hall), the oldest colonial building in the city, dating to the 1840s, and the Armstrong-Poventud Residence, an example of the neoclassical architectural heritage of the island.
Just north of downtown Ponce lies the Castillo Serrallés and the Cruceta El Vigía, a 100-foot (30 m) observation tower which overlooks the city. The Serralles castle is reported to receive nearly 100,000 visitors every year.[147] The hill on which the Cruceta is located was originally used by scouts to scan for incoming mercantile ships as well as invading ones. The invasion of American troops in 1898 was first spotted from there.
Ponce is home to Puerto Rico's oldest cemetery; in fact, it is the oldest cemetery in the Antilles. In the city outskirts, the Tibes Indigenous Ceremonial Center was discovered in 1975 after hurricane rains uncovered pottery.[148] The center is the site of the oldest cemetery uncovered up to date in the Antilles. With some 200 skeletons unearthed from the year 300 AD, it is considered the largest and the most important archaeological finding in the West Indies.[149][150] Two other cemeteries in Ponce worth noting are the Panteón Nacional Román Baldorioty de Castro and the Cementerio Catolico San Vicente de Paul, both of which are listed in the National Register of Historic Places. The Cementerio Catolico San Vicente de Paul has the most eye-catching burial constructions of any cemetery for the wealthiest families, both local and foreign-born, of southern Puerto Rico.[151]
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