When someones tell you to take out a day like if you where a tourist in Puerto Rico, it seems that you don't put many excuses and you just do it with out any problem, with a smile in your mouth. Personally I love to do what is know as domestic tourism, or internal toursim (that is to take a trip like a tourist in the same country you live).
I decides in this case to go to a beach in the east coast of Puerto Rico with some fiends. The idea was to have a nice day in the beach, with some friends and live the experience to feel like if I where a really tourist in Puerto Rico. Went we arrive the beach, it was a beach with a lot of people, their where so much tourist as well as people from puerto rico, you can feel how every body was in their own world, where no body talk with the others, it was a more relaxing but personal antisocial internal experience. This was until we meet a guy who si from Luquillo that live in a house very cole to that beach , Seven Seas. He told us , if we want , we can walk like for 20 minutes in a mangroves that was at the end side of the beach and we will find another beach who's name was "Playa Escondida". It was a much more lonely beach, but also more beautiful and peaceful beach.
I decides in this case to go to a beach in the east coast of Puerto Rico with some fiends. The idea was to have a nice day in the beach, with some friends and live the experience to feel like if I where a really tourist in Puerto Rico. Went we arrive the beach, it was a beach with a lot of people, their where so much tourist as well as people from puerto rico, you can feel how every body was in their own world, where no body talk with the others, it was a more relaxing but personal antisocial internal experience. This was until we meet a guy who si from Luquillo that live in a house very cole to that beach , Seven Seas. He told us , if we want , we can walk like for 20 minutes in a mangroves that was at the end side of the beach and we will find another beach who's name was "Playa Escondida". It was a much more lonely beach, but also more beautiful and peaceful beach.
To comport and feel like a tourist in your own home is a complete different experience than just to visit a place to pass the day. It make a complete different perspective to what you normally are used. I make your internal journey to feel and appear like if it where your external one. the tourist experience Is like Kincaid said in "A small place", you start to care less about whats is around you and that is good in a why, but bad in another, because you can not ignore the realities that around you and behave as if they don't exist. But it is also good in the perspective that you notice to many other things as a tourist that you usually don't but much attention, like for example the beauties of you own country, the way puerto ricans others white people as tourist or "gringos" that don's speak spanish and not know nothing about Puerto Rico, this is why where you start to create awareness about how a real tourist can fell in place they just only wants to relax and hace a nice day.
I could be a great tourist in Puerto Rico because I haven't been able to go to many places here or as we call "internal tourism".
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