One of the best acclimated abandonment ports for cruise ships in the Caribbean is San Juan in Puerto Rico. We absitively to access a day aboriginal to San Juan in adjustment to see some architect afore our cruise address departure. San Juan, accepted as ‘La Ciudad Amurallada’ (the belted city), was founded in 1521 and is the oldest burghal beneath the US flag. During the 16th century, the Spanish acclimated it as a point of abandonment for expeditions to the New World. Fortifications in the Old San Juan breadth of the burghal repulsed abundant attacks from the English and the Dutch during those years. Today, Old San Juan is a absorbing seven aboveboard block bartering and residential breadth with asphalt streets.

The cruise address terminal is absolutely amid abreast the south ancillary of Old San Juan so instead of booking a auberge in the bank resort breadth of San Juan, we absitively to book one appropriate in the old breadth for abutting adjacency to the terminal as able-bodied as the bounded sights. The $17 US auto ride from San Juan’s airport to Old San Juan was about bisected an hour. During the ride, I was afflicted by how developed the burghal was compared to abounding added cities I’ve visited in the Caribbean. (more…)