26 December 2009

A walled Baptist











San Juan was named after St. John the Baptist and Old San Juan is a fortified city like Charleston, but the walls are MUCH bigger. I did learn that orginally the city was called Puerto Rico "rich port" and the island San Juan which in a way made much more sense.

Emily and John had suggested not to get a tour guide and use the walking tour from the book which was a great idea because we could stop whenever we wanted along the way. The only bad thing was that it was hard to figure out where the tour started. We started our tour three times thinking we were in the right spot. We ate, did some shopping, walked around and took pictures. I could have done more of all three. In this entry, I'm just putting up some pictures of the old city. It really was gorgeous and we couldn't have asked for better weather.

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