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Enjoying a week in Puerto Rico Question: My wife and I will be traveling to Puerto Rico after Easter. I am a peanut geneticist and I have work to do in Isabela. I have stayed at El Guaha Taca (spelling?) Any suggestions for sightseeing and other places to stay? We will be there one week. Thanks. Corley Holbrook
ϳԹ Adviser: Consider going around the corner to Rincón, the westernmost point in Puerto Rico and about a 25-mile drive from Isabela. The draw here is watersports of all kinds–international surfing competitions are held here in the 10-foot breakers offshore, the diving and snorkeling are primo off Playa Bajura, and expert A good bet for accommodations is the high-end Horned Dorset Primavera (809-823-4030), an elegant Spanish colonial inn on a private beach that rents doubles for $140-$220 a night. While you’re busy with your peanut analysis, your wife can check out the 100-foot-high Rincón lighthouse on Maria’s Beach or one of the 14 other beaches in town. Augadilla, just north of Rincón and a few miles closer to Isabella, is also worthy of a closer look, mostly because of its great beaches and historical sites. Columbus is said to have first stepped |
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