San Juan

San Juan The old city area

Jeffry L'H. Tank
Pictures Taken Feb 24-Feb 28 2006

These are pictures from a trip taken in February of 2006 to the islands Puerto Rico, to explore the old city area of San Juan, and to the islands of St Thomas and St Martin in the Western Caribbean area. This first set of pictures were taken in San Juan, mostly in the old city area, though some show the newer city as seen from the cruise ship we were on. As we wandered around the old city area it reminded me of many of the European cities I have visited and really brought home just how strong the Spanish influence is in this part of the world. As Jeanne and wondered the city though the narrow streets, lined with all the blighted painted houses with their abundant balconies, we could easily imagine ourselves in Europe or perhaps even New Orleans, with it strong French, old world charm.


Old church	Old church, close up	Fort	The harbor	City view at evening	City view at evening

small lizard sunning	another lizard	the lower wall	cat chairs near wall	old fort wall	street scene

monument near old fort	fountain at monument	another view	yet another fountain	approach to old fort	fort cemetery

old fort	old fort	lower level of fort	another fort that protected harbor	main level of fort	looking along coast

outer fort wall	more of same	passage to lookout	upper level of fort	another view from fort	street scene

street scene	street scene	street scene	street scene	old building	street scene

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