97. Try an "Aguas Frescas" or a Fruit Cup

Editor's Note: This is the fourth installment in a series titled, "Top 100 Things to do in the South Padre Island/Brownsville Area," designed to allow the visitor to get the complete experience of this tropical South Texas area.

97. Have an Aguas Frescas and a Fruit Cup


This is a tropical paradise and what would you expect in paradise but lots and lots of fresh tropical fruit? You must try the big cups of fresh, sweet, natural fruits such as these pictured here which can be bought from vendors at the local flea market as they are in Mexico.

Conveniently cubed for your

pop-into-your-mouth pleasure.

"Aguas Frescas" translates literally into "Fresh Waters" and are the juice of the plentiful fruits in the area. The many fresh fruit flavors include: watermelon, mango, pineapple, and many more.

Large cups may be had for a dollar or a little more.

Nothing is quite as refreshing as these natural fruit drinks on a hot afternoon. Finding them is the hard part, but we will take the hard part out of it by letting you know where they can be found.

They can be found in snow cone stands

such as the one pictured here or in

Sunrise Mall next to the

carousel pictured below.