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Puerto Rico Day 3: Old San Juan

27 December 2021 • 13 km / 8 mi (map)

  • Added to Eric Scouten :: Travel on 4 January 2022
  • Puerto Rico 9

Having spent our first two days of acclimating and relaxing on the beach, we’ve now moved on to the historic district of Old San Juan.

This evening, we walked among the colorful streets and then to the Paseo del Morro, a trail along the edge of Castillo San Felipe del Morro.

A narrow, sloping street in Old San Juan lined with colorful colonial buildings — a white one with wrought-iron balconies and a black lantern on the left, and a mustard-yellow building on the right — with cars parked along the curb and an orange-and-white construction barrel under a blue sky with scattered clouds.
A narrow colonial street in Old San Juan lined with pastel-colored buildings featuring wrought-iron balconies, with cars parked along the left side and pedestrians walking in the distance beneath a blue sky with golden sunset clouds.
A yellow colonial building with a white-trimmed tall wooden spindle window strung with string lights, above a decorative flower box overflowing with green foliage and pink blossoms. To the right, a black iron fence borders lush palm trees, and a dark parked car is visible in the foreground.

I intend to someday revive my long-defunct black-and-white photoblog; in the meantime, I couldn’t resist breaking out the infrared camera.

Le Chat Noir et Blanc
Paseo del Morro, San Juan, Puerto Rico · by Lisa Rozmyn
Paseo del Morro, San Juan, Puerto Rico · by Lisa Rozmyn
Paseo del Morro, San Juan, Puerto Rico · by Lisa Rozmyn
A weathered stone fort wall with a domed sentry box (garita) juts up from the lower left against a dramatic evening sky filled with pink- and gold-tinged clouds over deepening blue, with a low silhouette of trees and buildings along the horizon.
Paseo del Morro, San Juan, Puerto Rico
A sailboat with a raised white sail glides across calm water at dusk, silhouetted against a low horizon lined with palm trees, beneath a broad sky of scattered gray clouds glowing orange and yellow near the water. A second smaller sailboat is visible in the distance to the right.
Paseo del Morro, San Juan, Puerto Rico
A cobblestone street in Old San Juan at dusk, lit by warm streetlamps that cast long shadows, with pedestrians strolling between pastel colonial buildings under a deep blue twilight sky framed by palm fronds. A yellow corner building with a wrought-iron balcony bears a sign reading “Calle Clara Lair.”
Puerta de San Juan, San Juan, Puerto Rico

After the sun went down, we walked back to the main square (Plaza de Armas) and enjoyed dinner with some live music nearby.

Plaza de Armas, San Juan, Puerto Rico
A colonial-style two-story building with twin bell towers illuminated at night with pink, purple, and blue lights and decorative white light displays, fronted by a brick plaza where cars are parked and people walk in the evening.
Plaza de Armas, San Juan, Puerto Rico
San Juan, Puerto Rico · 13 km / 8 mi
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