Day 5 – Wednesday
As we checked out of hotel Melia in Ponce this morning, the sky opened up and torrential rain started coming down. We barely made it to the car and drove in a wall of rain for a while. We had a reservation at Hacienda Buena Vista, a historical coffee plantation about 2o km north of Ponce. We had a tour (still in the pouring rain) of this non-operating coffee plantation and corn mill. We were hoping for some coffee after the tour, but there was no coffee to be found there. Luckily, at the nearby gas station we bought not only coffee, but also a plate of lechon asado (roast piglet) from a truck, one of the best meals we’ve had on the island.
Our next planned stop was in the town of Yauco, the capital of the PR coffee industry, but the rain was so torrential that we decided it made no sense to even bother stopping. We were also planning to visit a dry forest in Guanica, but gave it up in favor of getting to our evening lodging in the village of Parguera. We checked into Parador Villa Parguera (still in the rain), a nice waterfront hotel in the so called Fluorescent Bay. In the evening we took a short boat ride to see the fluorescent phenomenon. According to the boat driver, it was not the best night to experience it because of the moon and all the rain, but we could still see some of it. When you agitate the water, it creates bright flashes of light that resemble shooting stars or fire flies, many, many of them at the same time. Quite impressive.
As we checked out of hotel Melia in Ponce this morning, the sky opened up and torrential rain started coming down. We barely made it to the car and drove in a wall of rain for a while. We had a reservation at Hacienda Buena Vista, a historical coffee plantation about 2o km north of Ponce. We had a tour (still in the pouring rain) of this non-operating coffee plantation and corn mill. We were hoping for some coffee after the tour, but there was no coffee to be found there. Luckily, at the nearby gas station we bought not only coffee, but also a plate of lechon asado (roast piglet) from a truck, one of the best meals we’ve had on the island.
Our next planned stop was in the town of Yauco, the capital of the PR coffee industry, but the rain was so torrential that we decided it made no sense to even bother stopping. We were also planning to visit a dry forest in Guanica, but gave it up in favor of getting to our evening lodging in the village of Parguera. We checked into Parador Villa Parguera (still in the rain), a nice waterfront hotel in the so called Fluorescent Bay. In the evening we took a short boat ride to see the fluorescent phenomenon. According to the boat driver, it was not the best night to experience it because of the moon and all the rain, but we could still see some of it. When you agitate the water, it creates bright flashes of light that resemble shooting stars or fire flies, many, many of them at the same time. Quite impressive.
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