After exiting San Cristobal our plan is to walk along the wall to the other important castle in San Juan which is in the distance seemingly at the end of the wall. It is of course further away than we expect but still it is a nice walk.
The views and the houses are really interesting and we pass the La Perla neighborhood which the guidebooks are warning us not to go into so we just glance into it from above, it looks colorful and peaceful. Suddenly the number of people starts to pick up and we arrive at an Arts and Crafts area that we visit briefly and then we enter the nearby Museo de Las Americas. While we do not have time to see the exhibits we take a look at the interior architecture, it seems like there is an event going on and there are a lot of people milling around.
And then it is a short walk through a nice grassy area that many people appear to use to fly kites and then we arrive at San Felipe del Morro Castle.
It is both similar and different to Castillo de San Cristobal – it looks more imposing but it also seems smaller.
We walk across the different floors seeing the cannons and the exhibits and taking in the views in all directions. We also try to exit directly at the bottom but after descending multiple floors we encounter a locked gate so we need to climb all those stairs again which is really exhausting especially in the heat.
