Top Puerto Rico Outdoor Activities

Oh my goodness! What an amazing adventure. We did this excursion as a family (my husband and myself, and our three boys: 11,9,6). We are an active and adventurous family and this experience was a perfect fit! Blue was our tour guide and Kiko was her tour assistant. Blue was so very knowledgeable about the rain forest and its history. She took time to stop and show us various plants, what to look out for (avoid the picas picas!), their uses. She taught us about the history of the Taino Indians and the things that they invented. We learned so much as we hiked. Kiko is a certified life guard and kept everyone safe. He was in the water first to help anyone who was uncomfortable swimming. He made sure my 6yo could mount a huge boulder. My 9yo can scale just about any surface like a spider and Kiko made sure he was challenged too! The hike was great. Pretty intense at some points but a simple walk at others. You will hike a fairly steep incline up using natural stairs, roots, trees and rocks to help pull yourself up. There is another inclined path but it’s just walking and not climbing. Make sure your knees and ankles can handle it all! You arrive at the watering hole place. Here, they give you the option to stay there to relax on the large rocks and the calm waters or to continue on for another 10-15 minute rock climb hike to reach the natural water slide, jumping cliff and rope swing. There are 8ft, 15ft, and 20ft cliff jump options. My 6yo sis the 15ft jump, the rest of us did the 20ft jump. All amazing! Completely exhilarating! You hike back the reverse of how you got up there and that was sometimes tricker than getting up there! Make sure someone in your group has an iPhone with storage space. During the hike, Blue takes tons of pics and vids of EVERYTHING you do. At the end, she Airdrops the pics and vids to one person in each group. You won’t have a signal on your phone there, so this will be the only way to get the pictures. You meet up at the Farmacia Caridad. There you will follow Blue’s truck to El Yunque caravan style. Parts of that drive are tricky because it’s on a small one-lane, two direction road. Make sure the driver is confident! During the hike, Blue chats with the group and we got some amazing recommendations for food places in the area and in San Juan. And they were great recommendations! Life vests are provided. You can’t take anything with you on the hike that you don’t plan on getting dirty or wet. You have to keep up with your own belongings and there aren’t trash cans in the forest. So wearing a pack or anything like that isn’t a good choice. Blue will provide you water after you return from the hike. At most just about everyone had their phones in a water proof pouch around their necks and they had to jump and slide with them tucked inside your life vest. Wear water shoes with the thick soles or hiking sneakers that you are okay with getting completely submerged and muddy. Wear your water clothes. No sunscreen, no bug spray to preserve the ecosystem of the rainforest river. But there are NO MOSQUITOS naturally because there’s no still water and plenty of dragonflies who eat them! All in all this was a phenomenal experience that will for sure create some core memories for anyone who does it. 10/10 absolutely recommend…Blue and Kiko are AMAZING!