The photographs in this album were taken on a summer 2014 family trip to Puerto Rico, a US territory in the Caribbean. Based in San Juan, we walked around the historic and colorful Old San Juan and visited the Colonial Spanish fortresses Castillo San Felipe del Morro and Castillo San Cristóbal. We also embarked on day trips to the Arecibo Observatory, a huge futuristic radio telescope, and El Yunque National Forest, the only rain forest in the US National Forest System.

Puerto Rico

Puerto Ricans refer to themselves as Boricua, or Boriquén, a tribute to the native Taíno people who occupied the island before the Spanish.