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Walter Fletcher Beach & Aquasol Theme Park
While the theme park moniker is pushing it (the kid-orientated facilities consist of some blow-up water slides and a rusty go-cart circuit), this place on Walter Fletcher Beach offers a decent spot to relax in a nonthreatening local environment; the cruise-ship day-trippers usually
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Dornoch Riverhead
The source of the Rio Bueno, a cold freshwater pool surrounded by sheer cliffs, lays hidden in a green dream in the interior south of village. This is a lonely landscape, scattered with the crumbling remains and foundations of churches; the ruins certainly far outnumber tourists. T
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James Bond Beach
The attractive strip of white sand hosts large-scale annual music events, such as Follow Di Arrow , Beach J’Ouvert and Fully Loaded (watch out for event posters in Ocho Rios). During the week it’s pretty quiet but on weekends, in particular, visitors flock to Stingray City to snork
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Kwaaman & Tacky Waterfalls
Kwaaman and Tacky Falls are so pristine and isolated that, if you stumbled across them wandering up the coast from Robin’s Bay, you might be tempted to claim them as your own. Kwaaman Waterfall is a 32m cascade that tumbles into a clear pool you can swim in. Its a nearly one-hour h
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Folly
This rather appropriately named two-story, 60-room mansion on the peninsula east of East Harbour was built entirely of concrete in pseudo-Grecian style by North American millionaire Alfred Mitchell in 1902. Short-sightedly, sea water was used in the concrete mix, causing the iron r
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Cranbrook Flower Forest
This 53-hectare botanical garden run by Chukka Cove Farm is a treat, crafted in the lush valley that carves up into the hills south of Laughlands, about 5km west of Priory. The garden is built around a colonial-era building and includes theme gardens, a hothouse orchid display, poo
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Christiana Bottom
The main reason for stopping here is to discover this beautiful riverside valley bottom, located below the town at the base of a shimmering waterfall . Two sinkholes full of crystal-clear water offer refreshing dips; collectively they’re known as the Blue Hole. You can hike from th
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Wolmer’s School & Mico Teachers’ College
At the northern end of National Heroes Park you’ll find Wolmer’s School , a venerable educational establishment founded in 1729 that has produced many notable figures, including prime ministers and governor generals.The impressive 1909 wooden colonial structures nearby house one of
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Gordon House
Jamaica’s parliament meets at Gordon House, immediately north of Headquarters House. The rather plain brick-and-concrete building was constructed in 1960 and named after national hero the Right Excellent George William Gordon (1820–65).You can visit Gordon House by prior arrangeme
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High Street
Although it’s as frenetic and chaotic as any other High St in Jamaica, Black River’s High St (note, High St and Main St are used interchangeably here) is also lined with colonnaded Georgian timber houses, all musty and fading away in the intense sunshine, which gives it a prettily
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Navy Island
This lushly vegetated 25-hectare island is popular with local day-trippers on weekends – or it was, when the ferries ran.In colonial days the British Navy used it to careen ships for repair. In the mid-20th century Errol Flynn bought the island and built a home that became a hotel,
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Seven Mile Beach (Long Beach)
Seven Mile Beach was initially touted on tourism posters as ‘seven miles of nothing but you and the sea.’ But the once-peaceful place that drew all those blissed-out sensualists in the early 1970s is now only a happy memory. True, topless sunbathers still lie half submerged on loun
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Titchfield Peninsula
Along this hilly peninsula – known locally as ‘the Hill’ – are several dozen Victorian-style gingerbread houses, most notably DeMontevin Lodge , an ornate rust-red mansion, now a hotel. Many of the finest homes line King St, which runs down the center of the peninsula (parallel to
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Old Tavern Coffee Estate
Old Tavern Coffee Estate lies about 1.5km southwest of Section. Dorothy Twyman and her son David, produce the superb Blue Mountain coffee. The Twymans welcome visitors by prior arrangement. Youre treated to a lesson on coffee growing and production as well as a tasting session of t
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Huntington Summit
The extravagant Huntington Summit mansion in May Day, about 3km southeast of the town center, forms the yin to Bloomfield Great House’s yang. The octagonal home is of palatial proportions, with wraparound plate-glass windows and artificial cascades that tumble into a swimming pool
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YS Falls Cascades
Many rate this series of eight cascades , hemmed in by limestone cliffs and surrounded by forest, as being the most beautiful in all of Jamaica. The cascades fall 36m from top to bottom, separated by cool pools perfect for swimming. The falls take their name from the original lando
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Black River Heritage Buildings
Foremost among the historic structures worth checking out is the yellow-brick Parish Church of St John the Evangelist , built in 1837. From the outside it’s a bright, mustard-colored supermarket. The wind-pocked interior is graced by wooden porticoes and a stately balcony, while th
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Green Grotto Caves
This impressive system of caves and tunnels, 3km east of Discovery Bay, extends for about 45km. The steps lead down into the impressive chambers, where statuesque dripstone formations are illuminated by floodlights. The Taíno people left petroglyphs carved into the walls; the caves
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Bear Cay & World Beach
A curlicue spit, Bear Cay , hooks around the north side of the bay. World Beach , the lonesome 3km-long, white-sand beach on the north side, has long been appreciated by savvy travelers for its good snorkeling, sunbathing and solitude. Sea turtles haul themselves up here to lay the
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Bobo Hill
Bobo Hill, or the Ethiopia Africa Black International Congress, is the home of the Bobo Ashanti and sits on Queensbury Ridge above Bull Bay. About 100 fundamentalist Rastafarians live here, making a living from farming or selling natural-fiber brooms in Kingston. Other than that, t
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