Puerto Rico Travel Books

At first glance this is a page that would seem to go against the grain of our entire site.  Why?  Because the pur­pose of this site is to tell you about all the great places that Puer­to Rico has to offer, show pic­tures, audios and videos and then guide you straight to each one with our GPS maps.

And if you have your own GPS unit or rent one with your rental car then you could always copy the GPS coor­di­nates from our maps, punch them into your own GPS unit and let it guide you straight to each place.

So why paper books and maps?  Sim­ple, because some peo­ple pre­fer them.  They like to book­mark them, scrib­ble along the mar­gins and car­ry a non-dig­i­tal piece of infor­ma­tion at all times. And our ulti­mate goal is to give each trav­el­er exact­ly what he/she wants.

The Old San Juan Walking Tour

If you’re com­ing to Old San Juan and you’re the kind of per­son that likes to explore places on your own, then you have to read “The Old San Juan Walk­ing Tour”. “The Old San Juan Walk­ing Tour” takes you by the hand and guides you through every attrac­tion in the world’s most beau­ti­ful city (I’m biased).

My name is Orlan­do Mer­gal. I’m a land­scape pho­tog­ra­ph­er, a pro­fes­sion­al writer and an all-around com­mu­ni­ca­tions expert. And I’ve been doing this for a very long time.

But you know what I’ve been doing even longer? Liv­ing in Puer­to Rico. My par­ents moved back to the Island in 1963 when I was only 9 years old. So I’ve lived most of my life in Puer­to Rico. More impor­tant­ly, Old San Juan has lit­er­al­ly been my play­ground since I was a teenag­er, and that was also a long time ago.

I just love the place. I vis­it the city sev­er­al times a month and I’ve stud­ied it, pho­tographed it and wrote about every inch of it. I guess you could say that I know the place inside out.

Sev­er­al years ago I cre­at­ed the first iter­a­tion of “The Old San Juan Walk­ing Tour”. It was a book for the Ama­zon Kin­dle that you could take along with you, like a per­son­al guide, and it would explain every point of inter­est in the City.

Now I’ve cre­at­ed the Sec­ond Edi­tion and it’s total­ly updat­ed for 2022. Now you can explore the city in advance, look at every pic­ture and decide which attrac­tions inter­est you the most. And now it even includes access to 12 GPS maps with coor­di­nates for all the may­or attrac­tions and access to 12 high res­o­lu­tion videos so you can see it all before you arrive and decide what inter­ests you the most.  Read More

Puerto Rico Beach By Beach

“Puer­to Rico Beach By Beach”, is the ulti­mate guide to Puer­to Rico’s most beau­ti­ful beaches.

Most peo­ple think of Puer­to Rico as an Island. But it’s actu­al­ly not. It’s a group of islands with­in an arch­i­pel­ago called the Caribbean. That means that it’s com­prised of the main Island and sev­er­al small­er islands to the east, south and west. In spite of this con­fu­sion there’s one thing that’s crys­tal clear. We’re sur­round­ed by water! And that means beach­es… lots of great beaches.

Many of Puer­to Rico’s beach­es con­sis­tent­ly rank among the best in the world in pub­li­ca­tions like Condé Nast Trav­el­er, Tri­pAd­vi­sor and The Trav­el Chan­nel. But most impor­tant­ly many of these beach­es are only a few miles away from the Island’s pop­u­lar tourist spots. And guess what? They’re all free (or most­ly free)!

That’s right! In Puer­to Rico every sin­gle beach belongs to the peo­ple by law. So in most cas­es the only thing you’ll be pay­ing for is parking.

This new and expand­ed ver­sion of “Puer­to Rico Beach By Beach” presents a col­lec­tion of 53 of Puer­to Rico’s most beau­ti­ful beach­es pho­tographed and described in great detail for beach lovers like you. Also new in this edi­tion we include an online GPS Map with the coor­di­nates for every beach and a short online video of each beach so you can “vis­it before you vis­it”.   Read More

Puerto Rico Playa Por Playa

“Puer­to Rico Playa Por Playa”, is the ulti­mate guide to Puer­to Rico’s most beau­ti­ful beach­es. This book is in Spanish!

Most peo­ple think of Puer­to Rico as an Island. But it’s actu­al­ly not. It’s a group of islands with­in an arch­i­pel­ago called the Caribbean. That means that it’s com­prised of the main Island and sev­er­al small­er islands to the east, south and west. In spite of this con­fu­sion there’s one thing that’s crys­tal clear. We’re sur­round­ed by water! And that means beach­es… lots of great beaches.

Many of Puer­to Rico’s beach­es con­sis­tent­ly rank among the best in the world in pub­li­ca­tions like Condé Nast Trav­el­er, Tri­pAd­vi­sor and The Trav­el Chan­nel. But most impor­tant­ly many of these beach­es are only a few miles away from the Island’s pop­u­lar tourist spots. And guess what? They’re all free (or most­ly free)!

That’s right! In Puer­to Rico every sin­gle beach belongs to the peo­ple by law. So in most cas­es the only thing you’ll be pay­ing for is parking.

This new and expand­ed ver­sion of “Puer­to Rico Playa Por Playa” presents a col­lec­tion of 53 of Puer­to Rico’s most beau­ti­ful beach­es pho­tographed and described in great detail for beach lovers like you. Also new in this edi­tion we include an online GPS Map with the coor­di­nates for every beach and a short online video of each beach so you can “vis­it before you vis­it”.   Read More