It is a beautiful city, I'm glad you enjoyed it. You were in the building across from the cathedral with all the murals upstairs? That is open again, the mayor had the building renovated and the murals cleaned. I live about 6 blocks from the central square in the heart of the old city. We renovated a very old stone house with high ceilings and tile floors, we enjoy being in the middle of the city.
You were here at a good time to see a lot of flowers. The plumeria that are not white with a yellow center, there are several colors, start to bloom in the spring before they get leaves (the white ones bloom more then as well but they don't lose their leaves and bloom a little all year). It's a beautiful sight. The orange flowers on a tree could have been flamboyán (royal poinciana) or african tulip (Spathodea campanulata,). Both are quite common as street trees here (they get enormous) and the blooms on both are orange. The flamboyán blooms are a redder orange, profuse but smaller and cover the tree. The african tulip has a couple colors ranging from light orange to dark red/orange, my favorite is the light orange, exactly the color of the fruit. Those blooms are large and dot the tree rather than covering it. The flamboyán would just be beginning to bloom in May and the african tulip would be near the end for the season, it blooms in the winter.
Send me a message if you ever return, I would be happy to meet for lunch.
