Friday: First full day in San Juan

The weather here is weird. This morning when I checked my cell phone at 6 AM it was 80 degrees. We took a cab to Old San Juan at 9 AM. It was humid, but sunny. We took the free shuttle to the two major attractions. Castillo San Cristobal is a fort (I love forts) built because of attacks by England (1598) and Holland (1625). It is huge once you get inside it. The other attraction is a fort. Yea! Castillo San Felipe del Morro also dates back to the 1500s. It has six levels built over 500 years.

Here are the pics:

Actually, I'm starting with one of a typical Old San Juan street. Every single street looked like this.

 

Inside San Cristobal. Ramp to get guns up to their positions along the wall.

 

 

Looking through an observation post in San Cristobal. Way in the distance, on the far right, is El Morro.

 

 

This is approaching El Morro. People were flying kites on the lawn. Our two dogs would have loved this area. The fort is center background.

 

 

El Morro is at the very tip of Puerto Rico so they had to build a modern lighthouse inside the old fort. At least they made it look interesting. The people standing to the left of the lighthouse were part of a professional photo shoot going on. It looked to me like it might have been a clothing designer using models. Behind us is the Atlantic Ocean, so even without the models it was quite a view.