Need advice on PR excursions

[montereybob]

We are trying to choose between the following two excursions on PR. We are hoping anyone who has been on either of these can give us their opinion of them:

 

1. Caguas City Tour and Botanical Garden

 

2. El Yunque Rain Forest Tour including a walk on Camimitillo Trail, Yohaku Observation Tower, and Cocoa Waterfall.

 

Thanks for your help.

[orquidia]

both are lovely. the rainforest is very well known outside Puerto Rico but the botanical garden is not.

the caguas botanical garden is actually called a botanical garden and also a cultural park 'Parque Botánico y Cultural de Caguas' . It has 200 puerto rican plant species and 50 exotic caribbean plant species. It really is a walk thru the timeline of the puerto rican nation, how the 3 root races (Spanish conquistadores, Taino Indians and the African slaves) united and formed over a period of over 5 centuries (since 1492) the people that we call puerto ricans today. There is a lot of history to learn there and many great exhibitions.

the municipality of Caguas has a website with some great photos (click on the 5 photo galleries 'Galeria de Fotos') http://portalesp.caguas.gov.pr/jardin_botanico/index.html