LECHONERAS IN GUAVATE - ISLA VERDE - LA PARGUERA - FAVORITE PUERTO RICAN FOOD
hundred meters take exit seven eight for puerto rico seventeen west tornado puerto roce okay which do you think will bring us to let's go that way oh there's a beach yay found something a sea fan sea fan so we are on isla verde right now we found the beach inadvertently and so this is actually like five minutes from the airport so as you can see you'll see a lot of hotels so if you want to come here this is a private place so you can definitely get a place by the water here and when you wake up in the morning this is what you see so guys originally we were gonna come to el santuan the hotel right behind me we were supposed to go there for breakfast but then we saw a local panaderia so we stopped there and had coffee i said why don't we still go to that el san juan hotel and just get some mimosa and we were gonna walk and figure out where it was and it's right in front of us it's right there literally in front of us so we're still gonna check it out i bet you this is their beach area here babe yeah so this is for their beach club this whole area is theirs so it's private from 1958 this is what you see the beach is right there so you can rent those umbrellas and they have a nice pool i'm sure before covet this was open for drinks oh how nice look at this very nice so i guess you can rent one of these but those have a tv let's take a look oh my gosh this one has a kiosk where you can sing they have a tv they have a safe they have a fridge for cold drinks i'm sure there's a cat okay oh so nice is so that is it for our stay here um we are going to head southwest which will be our base for the next um two days then we come back here on our way out to florida we're gonna stop by cayey there's a legenera place there um hopefully we can find it and have some lucha on and then we're gonna head down south check in in la parguera that will be for today so let's head out turn left onto kaiye segovia then turn right onto kaye casares 600 meters take exit lechonera wow it's very popular beatrice do you want to go to this one i guess this is the area now we'll go to the original these are all the legenderas now we should stop by look at all these places this is now the legend it's just like in your place oh my gosh when you come here get ready for the curves with no lines please i want to be taken there look we are going the scenic route here guys so if you are a little queasy don't look down we should be there in about seven minutes we're stopping by sorry wow h dessert oh my god so what do we have we have arrows yes the famous like john that goes with that hot sauce rice cooked with pork blood and made into a sausage okay and of course we had to have pina colada and this is that is uh leaded and this is virgin because i am the driver so all of these are like typical puerto rican food we don't have they don't they didn't have solutions so i'm gonna show you what ceruleans are that was my favorite when we used to live here puerto rican french fries yeah it's just so good so this place is like what 35 minutes away from san juan you do need a car to come go to monkey in up in the mountains but they have this you will have lines of uh lechonera you really can choose anywhere this is supposedly the original el rancho it's the uh bledstone strip yeah the electron strip some smitty stores like little kiosks look this is a nice plate but they have buddhas too where oh my gosh how cute is that and dominos oh we made it check out our room before it gets messed up we have two beds dresser here we have a small tv it's very simple and the bathroom is good enough you have a shower no coffee no coffee but they have a restaurant here but the best part of here is this made it to la parguera we will be here for two nights and then so ralph has to work well ralph is here for work i'm here too i'm just here to to accompany him in and lay in the beach tomorrow so um so tomorrow we're going to visit our previous lab so just for everybody we actually lived here and went to school here we went to graduate school here back in the late 80s our first daughter aaron was born in puerto rico in san germain and so today ralph has some meetings then tomorrow and friday then we go back to san juan and we'll explore the the city over there and that's it for our getaway for the first time in almost two years so we're here we just arrived um it was about an hour and 45 minutes from kaguas no from guava that is our lab that's where we went to school every day we're gonna go there tomorrow on a boat that's the only way you can get to the island so we had our classes there there was a dorm there so our labs are there so we're gonna bring you and show you around um tomorrow you'll meet a lot of iguanas too do so so ralph has a zoo meeting right now so i'm going to go out to see what is in town it's a very small town so these are some of the restaurants right here this is where we're staying and los balcones we ate here before and so this is a plaza you can go to this places mata lagata all that you can just go here so here's another here's another look at the plaza it's really cute fondo de cristal i think this is where you can take the boats to um so i think it's open genus or johnny's boat pretty we are off to find more fungal i hope the mosquitoes don't find us first this is another place you can have some food moorings really are hoping that they're open do you have food okay the restaurant is closed oh the restaurant for for the coffee no no tuesday and wednesday until the evening until the evening okay breakfast is closed we open for dinner oh okay thank you i guess we should have called huh i'm telling you so there it's closed okay we needed to walk i know we needed the exercise it's too much so we're here at the mooring mooring it's like close to literally like catty corner to villa pargera just winding the evening down ralph has a long day tomorrow at work yep and i have a long day i don't know sightseeing i don't know where i'm gonna end up tomorrow we meet again so rurios oh just the way i remember it it's crunchy on the outside it's soft in size kind of sweet and then you dip it in this ketchup mayo there's nothing like it it's the best it's called surujos this is interesting it has a seaweed salad on top this is somewhere here is a mofongo right there so as you can see the mofongo is a typical puerto rican dish which is uh mashed green planters green plantain so they come in different flavors wow you like it so here's the green plantain right there and what's dangling there is fish yeah what are you doing taking pictures oh my god this guy was my boss for five years oh my gosh and he was like that then he looked just like that and has not aged oh my gosh look how deserted parguera is at nine o'clock used to be a party place there is a curfew at ten that's why so restaurants have to close by nine so their workers can go home by ten but this used to be packed with tourists this used to be packed oh my gosh look at this it's good for us it's quiet it is sad but it's just it'll get back and we have our gate pass look oh i know sign of the times look at this this is so nice i love the mural thank you for watching day two of our trip to puerto rico click on the link above or in the description below to watch day one of this puerto rico travel series next we visit islamagues and meet the iguanas that inhabit the island and of course its people visit playa rosada a natural swimming pool snorkel the reefs of the caribbean with a local guide and swim in the phosphorescent bay if you like this video please give it a like and subscribe don't forget to click the bell to be the first one to know when our next video is published thank you and till next time
2021-05-05 21:52
