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Port Antonio To Fairy Hill best Jamaica travel vacation destination videos

WorldTravelDB.com — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 12:12:45 +0000

Beyond the turnoff for Folly the A4 meanders east of Port Antonio through the coastal villages of Drapers, Frenchman’s Cove and Fairy Hill. This is where most visitors to Port Antonio, and indeed to Portland, will find accommodations and explore the nearby Rio Grande Valley, Nonsuch Caves, Blue Lagoon as well as the luxuriate sands of Frenchman’s Cove, San San Beach and Winnifred Beach.

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While the hotels and restaurants of Drapers, Frenchman’s Cove and Fairy Hill will accommodate most budgets and tastes, be sure to venture into the local communities, small as they are. Portlanders are among the most gracious of all Jamaicans, and their acquaintance enhances any visit to their parish.

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Port Antonio best Jamaica travel vacation destination videos

WorldTravelDB.com — Tue, 21 Apr 2009 11:12:45 +0000

Cupping an unruffled bay while backing into the sleepy Rio Grande Valley, Port Antonio is the perfect capital for Portland. The parish’s only sizable town is largely untarnished by the duty-free, tourist orientation of Ocho Rios or Montego Bay, its streets, squares, quayside and market inviting leisurely strolls – invitations freely accepted by the town’s dog and goat populaces. Wandering away from the bustle past the dilapidated houses lining the potholed streets of Titchfield Peninsula, it’s very easy to think you’ve roamed onto the set of some quaint colonial ghost town.

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Ironic, then, that the tentacles of Jamaican tourism first found purchase in Port Antonio. The town came to prominence as the island’s major banana port, and its prosperity began luring visitors at the turn of the 20th century. Celebrity visitors, led by cinematic and real-life swashbuckler Errol Flynn, descended on the town in the 1930s. And when the tourist attentions moved on to the west of the island, Port Antonio went back to bananas.

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Ocho Rios best Jamaica travel vacation destination videos

WorldTravelDB.com — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 09:12:45 +0000

Wrapped around a small bay with postcard-worthy snugness, Ocho Rios is a former fishing village that the Jamaica Tourist Board earmarked for tourism in the mid-1980s. Whatever character Ocho Rios lost when the local nets were redirected from fish to the tourist dollar, its streets today are lined with interchangeable duty-free shopping plazas and fast-food emporia, persistent higglers (street vendors) and would-be tour guides, and a palpable air of waiting for something.

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That something is cruise ships – after Montego Bay, this is the island’s premier port of packaged call. Yet ‘Ochi’s’ beaches lack the splendor of MoBay’s, it has nothing approaching the latter’s downtown historic center, and the disembarkation dock here is so centrally located as to command the town’s focus. When the floating resorts pull in, their human cargo streams into town to meet the local traffic in souvenirs untainted by memories; the full frontal hustle is on.

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Northern Jamaica best Jamaica travel vacation destination videos

WorldTravelDB.com — Sat, 18 Apr 2009 08:12:45 +0000

The northeast coast is Jamaica’s windward corner, where surf rolls ashore into perfect beach-lined coves and waves chew at rocky headlands. Colonial-era edifices are relatively few, though beautiful pocket-size beaches line the shore. You’ll also find several unspoiled fishing villages where budget travelers can ease into a laid-back local lifestyle.

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Beautiful Portland parish, presided over by the sleepy town of Port Antonio, is the least developed resort area in Jamaica – a fact that endears it to many. Further west, the bustling port of Ocho Rios provides a convenient staging ground for excursions to some of Jamaica’s most popular attractions, including the incomparable Dunn’s River Falls.

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Martha Brae best Jamaica travel vacation destination videos

WorldTravelDB.com — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 23:12:45 +0000

Situated on a small hill and nearly encircled by the emerald-green waters of the scenic Martha Brae River, this small village 3km due south of Falmouth is justly famous for rafting. The river rises at Windsor Caves and spills into the sea at Glistening Waters, east of Falmouth.

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Long Bay best Jamaica travel vacation destination videos

WorldTravelDB.com — Sun, 05 Apr 2009 19:12:45 +0000

Heading east from Boston, the road hugs the coast and passes through 8km of striking scenery. Waves chew at rocky headlands as magnificent frigate birds circle overhead like juvenile pterodactyls. Your destination is Long Bay, in one of the most dramatic settings in all of Jamaica. The 1.5km-wide bay has rose-colored sand, deep turquoise waters and breezes pushing the waves forcefully ashore. Canoes are drawn up on the beach, with fishing nets drying beside them.

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Long Bay appeals to budget travelers as well as surfers, and has drawn a large number of expats who have put down roots and opened guesthouses. The lifestyle here is laid-back and rootsy, something like Negril felt 30 years ago.

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Ironshore best Jamaica travel vacation destination videos

WorldTravelDB.com — Fri, 03 Apr 2009 17:12:45 +0000

This residential suburb about 8km east of Montego Bay is a center for deluxe resorts and villas, several of which line the shoreline of the scintillating Mahoe Bay.

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The Blue Diamond Shopping Centre, near the highway at Ironshore, has a Scotiabank (953-8451), as well as Diamond Drugs Pharmacy (953-9184), Express Laundromat (953-8918) and Shopper’s Fair (953-3926), a well-stocked supermarket.

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Glistening Waters best Jamaica travel vacation destination videos

WorldTravelDB.com — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 15:12:45 +0000

At night, Glistening Waters (also known as Luminous Lagoon), a large bay at Rock about 1.6 km east of Falmouth, boasts a singular charm – it glows an eerie green when the water is disturbed. The green glow is due to the presence of microorganisms that produce photochemical reactions when disturbed. The concentrations of microorganisms is so thick that fish swimming by look like green lanterns.

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Half-hour boat trips are offered from Glistening Waters Marina (954-3229, 888-991-9901; per person US$15; 7-9pm).

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Discovery Bay best Jamaica travel vacation destination videos

WorldTravelDB.com — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 14:12:45 +0000

This wide flask-shaped bay, 8km west of Runaway Bay and 8km east of Rio Bueno, is a popular resort spot for locals drawn to its Puerto Seco Beach. The town itself has only marginal appeal.

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Resembling a kind of giant nipple, the Kaiser Bauxite Company’s Port Rhoades bauxite-loading facility dominates the town (it was used for the headquarters of Dr No – Crab Cay – in the James Bond movie, Dr No). Large freighters are fed by conveyor belts from a huge storage dome that looks like a rusty pumpkin. You can follow the road signed ‘Port Rhoades’ uphill 1km to a lookout point offering fantastic views over the bay (there is a pair of high-power, pay-per-view binoculars). Note the metal likeness of Anancy, the folkloric spider, in the playground of the Kaiser’s Sports Club, en route.

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