Baila Conmigo: Private Afro-Puerto Rican Historical Food and Dance Tour

Our driver Catherine was awesome. She gave us a very detailed history lesson of the culture and her background. She was involved with us we weren't just tourist she made us feel like family. Catherine is highly recommended!

This was an AWESOME experience!! I really appreciate the personal touch of this private tour Catherine & @froanddrum!! Learning about Bomba and learning a choreographed dance was amazing. The way the drums 🪘 speak to your soul transports you to another time & space. The cooking experience was awesome!! Having the authentic Puerto Rican food was not only delicious, it was warming to the spirit. The shop’s owner was very patient while training us in the new dishes and while taking pics of all the seasonings. LOL

I enjoyed the entire tour. I enjoyed learning the history of Bomba and learning the dance. The food tour was awesome! Our driver Christine was the best.

The tour guide Tanya (who happened to be the company owner) was really nice, friendly, and personable. She made the experience very unique for my sister and I who happened to be the only ones taking this tour at that time. We were picked up around 10:30a and dropped off by 3p, so this is a good tour to take so you have enough time to do other stuff that day. The tour had 3 parts. The first part of the tour was taking us to a public park to meet up with a dance/ music instructor who taught us several Bomba steps (basically it's a type of Afro-Caribbean dance) and how to combine them to react to the music. I'm sorry I forgot his name (Christian?), anyways, the instructor was really talented with his music, knowledgeable, friendly, and made us feel at ease. The second part of the tour was taking us to this street strip known for the yummm 'fast foods' in this case meaning fried :) The street had lots of mini restaurants, kiosks, etc mostly known to locals, which made it all the better. This part of the tour was to show us how to make alcapurrias. Everything I ate was so delicious! The last part of the tour was to take us to a partial cave area where slaves would commune with nature to escape their oppressive situation. The area was really beautiful with lots of photo ops. I recommend this tour if you want to learn about parts of the island history and hang out like a local. My sister and I really enjoyed ourselves.

I had young adults and an eight year old and we all enjoyed ourselves. The Bomba lessons were informative and fun. Cooking was fun and the food we made was super good. Tanya and Josh were great guides gave us a true local authentic experience. If you want an authentic real experience BOOK WITH THE REAL PR TOURS!!

The history and dance lessons with Christian were amazing! And Stephanie was very lively and fun and knowledgeable. The cooking experience was fun as well, and we really enjoyed seeing areas we might not have seen otherwise. This tour was awesome!

We enjoyed a beautiful day of dance, food and scenery our guide Andrea was amazing and made us feel very comfortable. We definitely would recommend this tour to anyone visiting PR. Thank you!

This was an amazing tour from start to finish. Yuma was very knowledgeable of the history and was able to educate us on many things we would have never known about the Afro-Puerto culture. The dance lesson was very fun and the cooking lesson was the cherry on top. Unfortunately, the cave was closed so we weren’t able to go inside of it, but I still feel like we had a full tour.

This experience was amazing. Learning how to dance the Bamba and play the drums was super fun. We also got to cook some awesome food.

Absolutely great experience. Enjoyed learning about the African Puerto Rican culture. Every experience was great, from learning the Bamba dance to cooking. Our tour guide was amazing. Totally worth every penny.