Traveling Tolins 2

PUERTO RICO (SAN JUAN), USA Puerto Rico encompasses the most alluring qualities of the Caribbean: White sand beaches, lush rain forests, and inspiring Spanish colonial archi-tecture.  Compact and elegantly planned, Old San Juan, or El Viejo San Juan to the locals, spans the centuries.  El Morro fortress has been standing watch over San Juan Bay since the 16 th century.  Its 20-foot thick walls rise straight from the roiling sea waters, and its formidable cannons peer out to sea.  The dense streets of the centuries-old city, a UNESCO World Heritage Site, are paved with steel-blue adoquin stone, used to ballast the Spanish galleons that brought settlers and goods here.  These colorful, narrow byways lead to picturesque multi-hued facades and townhouses with neo-classical balconies. US Coast Guard Station short way from our docked cruise ship.  Ferry boat dock next to our cruise ship. El Yunque Rainforest We d iscovered Puer...

ST. THOMAS (CHARLOTTE AMALIE),  US VIRGIN ISLANDS The  United States Virgin Islands  (abbreviated  USVI ; also called the  US Virgin Islands  or  American Virgin Islands ), officially the  Virgin Islands of the United States , is a group of islands in the  Caribbean  and an unincorporated and organized territory  of the  United States .    The islands are geographically part of the  Virgin Islands archipelago  and are located in the  Leeward Islands  of the  Lesser Antilles  to the east of  Puerto Rico  and west of the  British Virgin Islands . The U.S. Virgin Islands consists of the main islands of  Saint Croix ,  Saint John , and  Saint Thomas , and many other surrounding  minor islands .    The total land area of the territory is 133.73 square miles.    The territory's capital is  Charlotte Amalie  on the isla...