The Oldest US City: Spanish Fortresses, Blue Cobblestones, Bioluminescent Bay & Piña Colada Birthplace
📍 San Juan, Puerto Rico📅 3-day itinerary
A 500-year-old Spanish colonial city that is simultaneously under US jurisdiction — with iron slag cobblestones from galleon ballast turning blue in the rain, two massive Atlantic fortresses that repelled British and Dutch assaults for four centuries, the world's only bioluminescent bay certified by Guinness World Records 13 km from the city, and a cocktail invented at the hotel bar in 1954 that has since been ordered more times than any other drink on Earth.
The Hexagonal Fortress That Rose 43 Metres from the Atlantic and Held the Caribbean Door for 400 Years & Iron Slag Cobblestones from Spanish Galleon Ballast That Glow Faintly Blue in the Rain
The Only Tropical Rainforest in the US National Forest System Where an Endangered Parrot Found in No Other Country Lives & Kayaking Through Water That Glows Blue Around the Paddle with 700,000 Bioluminescent Organisms Per Litre
Wild Paso Fino Horses Gone Feral on a Former US Navy Bombing Range & The Rum Distillery Relocated from Castro's Cuba That Now Produces 100,000 Cases Per Day Across the Bay from Old San Juan