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Montego Bay Marine Park & Bogue Lagoon
The waters of Montego Bay are gorgeous to behold both above and below the surface, but they have long been compromised by the effects of fishing, water sports and pollution. With the creation in 1991 of the Montego Bay Marine Park, environmental regulations at last began to be stri
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Apple Valley Park
Owned by Patrick Lee and his lovely Chinese-Jamaican family, Apple Valley Park is a little triumph of green sensibility and community tourism. The park grounds consist of an 18th-century home, a manicured lake, an artificial pool and further on, a forest reserve that stretches past
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Headquarters House
The brick-and-timber house was originally known as Hibbert House, named after Thomas Hibbert, reportedly one of four members of the Assembly who in 1755 engaged in a bet to build the finest house and thereby win the attention of a much-sought-after beauty. It seems he lost the bet
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Cecil Charlton Park
This tiny English-style ‘green’, also known as Mandeville Sq, lends a slight Cotswoldian village feel to the town center (that’s assuming Cotswold greens are dominated by dozens of people hailing taxis, selling produce and hawking Digicel scratch cards). On the north side is the Ma
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Sir Alexander Bustamante Square & Around
Bustamante Square is centered on a small fountain fronting the handsome courthouse. Note the vintage 1932 fire engine beside the courthouse.The town’s restored courthouse has limestone balustrades and a clapboard upper story topped by a clock tower supported by Corinthian columns.
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Gourie Forest Reserve
An unexpected bloom of pine trees, plus mahogany and mahoe, grows atop the flinty heads of the Cockpits 3km northwest of Christiana, near Coleyville. This park is laced with hiking trails and is most noteworthy for having one of Jamaica’s longest cave systems. Two routes into the G
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Peter Tosh Monument
Many monuments make a political statement, and the memorial to reggae superstar Peter Tosh, plunked a kilometer south of Bluefields on the beach road in Belmont, is no exception. And the cause here is, as Tosh once sang, to ‘legalize it.’ You can guess what ‘it’ is, but if not, jus
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Reach Falls
Even in a country that abounds in waterfalls, Reach Falls stands out as one of the most beautiful places in Jamaica. The white rushing cascades are surrounded by a bowl of virgin rainforest; the water tumbles over limestone tiers from one hollowed, jade-colored pool into the next.
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Institute of Jamaica
The Institute of Jamaica is the nation’s small-scale equivalent of the British Museum or Smithsonian, housed in three separate buildings. The institute hosts permanent and visiting exhibitions. Buy your ticket at the Natural History Museum , accessed by a separate entrance around t
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Trench Town Culture Yard
Trench Town, which began life as a much-prized housing project erected by the British in the 1930s, is widely credited as the birthplace of ska, rocksteady and reggae music. It has been immortalized in numerous reggae songs, not least Bob Marley’s ‘No Woman No Cry,’ the poignant an
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Appleton Sugar Estate and Rum Factory
You can smell the yeasty odor of molasses wafting from the Appleton Sugar Estate and Rum Factory well before you reach it, 1km northeast of Maggotty in the middle of the Siloah Valley. This is the largest and oldest distillery in Jamaica: the factory has been blending rums since 17
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Windsor Caves
These caverns may be off the beaten track to most people, but they’re a major way-point for some 50,000 bats. Their egress and entrance, a massed cloud of skittering airborne mammalian tooth, fur, flap and claw, is a sight to behold (theres guano galore). Luckily, the caves were do
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Bellefield Great House
The sea of sugarcane south of Montego Bay is part of the Barnett Estate, a plantation owned and operated since 1755 by the Kerr-Jarretts, one of Jamaica’s preeminent families; their holdings once included most of the Montego Bay area. Today the family holds the land and its accompa
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Indigenous Rastafarian Village
If you want to learn about the Rastafari movement past the effort it takes to pop in a Marley CD, come out to this…hmmm. ‘Theme park’ is definitely not the right description. How about ‘living interpretive exhibit?’ There’s not exactly a natural mystic floating in the air, but this
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Town Square & Around
Port Antonio’s heart is the Town Sq, at the corner of West St and Harbour St. It’s centered on a clock tower and backed by a handsome red-brick Georgian courthouse from 1895; the building is surrounded by a veranda supported by Scottish iron columns and topped by a handsome cupola,
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Glistening Waters (Luminous Lagoon)
Glistening Waters, also known as ‘Luminous Lagoon,’ actually lives up to the substantial hype. Located in an estuary near Rock, 1.6km east of Falmouth, the water here boasts a singular charm – it glows an eerie green when disturbed. The green glow is due to the presence of microorg
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Cinchona Gardens
A dilapidated old house sits atop these 2.5-hectare gardens, fronted by lawns and exquisite floral beds. Its a little run-down, but the views are fabulous: to the north stand the peaks, but you can also peer down into the valleys of the Clyde, Green and Yallahs Rivers. The Panorama
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Trench Town Museum
Trench Town, which began life as a much-prized housing project erected by the British in the 1930s, is widely credited as the birthplace of ska, rocksteady and reggae music. The neighborhood has been immortalized in the gritty narratives of numerous reggae songs, not the least of w
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Negril Hills
This range of low-lying hills rises inland of Negril’s West End. The raised limestone upland is wild and smothered in brush. Tiny hamlets sprinkle the single road that provides access from Negril: Whitehall Rd leads south from Sheffield Rd to the hamlet of Orange Hill, swings east
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Rose Hall Great House
This mansion, with its commanding hilltop position 3km east of Ironshore, is the most famous Great House in Jamaica.Construction was begun by George Ashe in the 1750s and was completed in the 1770s by John Palmer, a wealthy plantation owner. Palmer and his wife Rose (after whom the
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