Puerto Rico Features

Puerto Rico Features

• When to Go
  High season runs from mid-December through mid-April. Winter hotel rates are as much as 25% higher than...
• Great Itineraries
  This itinerary takes you west to the best beaches of the Porta del Sol, along the island's west coast...
• Peaceful Music
  Cellist Pablo Casals was one of the 20th century's most influential musicians. Born in Catalonia in 1876...
• On the Menu
  Adobo. A seasoning made of salt, onion powder, garlic powder, and ground black pepper, usually rubbed...
• The Piña Colada Wars
  This mixture of pineapple juice, coconut cream, and liberal amounts of rum, always garnished with a wedge...
• Vieques Libre
  For nearly six decades, the U.S. Navy had a stranglehold on Vieques. It controlled the island's eastern...
• Underwater fireworks
  On most moonless nights strings of kayaks float along the surface of Bahía Mosquito. The people...
• Masked Mischief
  A week before Ash Wednesday, vejigantes (pronounced veh-hee-GAN-tays), wearing long, colorful robes and...
• Lives of the Santos
  When they arrived on Puerto Rico, Spanish missionaries spread the word of God and fostered a spirited...
• The Abominable Chupacabra
  The Himalayas have their Yeti, Britain has its crop circles, New Jersey has its legendary Jersey Devil…and...
• Cocina Criolla
  Puerto Rican cocina criolla -- literally, the creole kitchen -- is a relative of other Caribbean cuisines...