A Travel Guide on the Net

Here is some basic info on Puerto Rico.
Travel Guide

Explore!

 This map makes me long for a jeep trip around and through the island staying in small inns along the way.  I can see the greenery, native wildlife (lizards, ...), and history.  There are more than 130 small inns and B&B's in Puerto Rico and lots of historical sites to visit.  Get me a hat and sun glasses!  Get me a camera!

Geography of the West Indies

The geography of the Caribbean is confusing.  The West Indies are made up of the islands of the Caribbean Sea and are divided into the Greater Antilles and Lesser Antilles.  Puerto Rico and three other larger islands make up the Greater Antilles.  The others are Cuba, Hispanola, and Jamaica.  Hispanola is divided into to Haiti and the Dominican Republic.  Puerto Rico is the eastern most of the Greater Antilles.  For further info, the Lesser Antilles include the Virgin Islands, Leeward Islands, and Windward Islands.  That's a lot, but I've always wanted to understand it better.  Here's an outline view:

West Indies = Islands of the Caribbean Sea

1. Greater Antilles
1. Cuba
2. Hispanola
3. Jamaica
4. Puerto Rico <======================
2. Lesser Antilles
1. Virgin Islands
2. Windward Islands (get the wind first)
1. Martinique
2. St. Lucia
3. St. Vincent
4. The Grendadines
1. Carriacou
2. Tobago Cays
3. Bequia
5. Grenada
3. Leeward Islands  (less wind)
1. Dominica
2. Guadelope
3. Montserrat
4. Antigua
5. Barbuda
6. St. Kitts
7. Nevis
8. Anguilla
9. St. Maarten

This information helped me as I never knew how various islands related to each other geographically and I'd never heard of some.  Have you been to any?

Puerto Rico as a Destination

I love Caribbean travel.  I've been up and down the eastern coast of Mexico and some of Central America.  This week I've been reading about Puerto Rico and I'm taking a travel agents course from there.  This US territory has many of a travelers wishes - beach, mountain, forests both rain and dry, big hotels, little inns, bed and breakfast inns, history, architecture, ruins, and on and on.  Oh, yeah - and shopping!  I'm ready to go now.

In this little blog I'm going to post what I learn about Puerto Rico in general and as a travel destination.  If you have questions, or you have been there and have experiences to share, please comment.