When we picked Puerto Rico as our honeymoon destination, it was with the idea of having a lazy kind of trip. The plan: five days away, a small area in Old San Juan to explore, some good food and drink, and some general relaxation at our hotel with its rooftop pool, interesting bars and secluded spaces to sit and read. The one exception to this was a day trip we planned to El Yunque, a tropical rainforest.
Normally we’d have done this ourselves by renting a car, but as it was a lazy trip, we booked a tour to pick us up and drop us off at the hotel and take care of guiding us around. A relatively peaceful 50 minute drive outside San Juan had us in lush, tropical surroundings. After a brief stop at El Yunque’s main entrance and interpretive site, we started up the mountain. A very narrow road wound itself further and further up:
Our first stop was at Coca Falls, right beside the main road up the mountain. The falls have about a 60 foot drop (you can see some perspective with the people standing part way up on the left):
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