Welcome to the home of the internationally acclaimed reggae artist Bob Marley. So it is here with little surprise, you will find music to be an integral part of the Jamaican way of life every where you turn. The reggae sound brings about toe tapping no matter what the age; whether at the beach, the market or out for the evening.
Though a small nation, Jamaica is the third largest island in the Caribbean and is the most populous English speaking island as well, with Jamaican Creolean an English/African-based language also widely spoken.
Jamaica is a luscious mountainous island, with the highest point Blue Mountain’s Peak at over 7400 feet above sea level. The Blue Mountain & John Crow Mountain National Park within its almost 200,000 acres of wilderness presents a national preserve of tropical mist forests, with an array of ferns, witchcraft beans and pines, and narrow terraces where farmers are found growing the famed Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee. The island of Jamaica also boasts many rivers where visitors and countrymen alike enjoy the experience, scenery and adventure of river rafting while off-shore enjoy the challenge of deep sea fishing. A mere 15 minutes from shore provides the best marlin, wahoo, billfish, tuna and dolphin fishing in the Caribbean.
Jamaica is surrounded by the most beautiful beaches, each offering their own uniqueness and with varying degrees of amenities. One of the most famous beaches on the island is Seven Mile Beach in Negril, where you can eat, drink, shop, and hop a kayak or a wave runner, to Doctor's Cave Beach in Montego Bay—a family oriented beach playground with water sport amenities and a food court to Hellshire Beach near Kingston where the ambience is carnival like, full of booming music, laughing children, and the odors of cooking chicken and pork to other numerous beaches that provide nothing more than the chance to relax and just lay back.
If Bob Marley is Jamaica’s music claim to fame then the infamous Jerk Jamaican seasoning is Jamaica’s unique gift and claim to fame in the culinary world. You simply can’t go to Jamaica without trying this tantalizing spicy seasoning and cooking technique that is used on chicken, pork or fish. You will find Jerk stands all over the island, with their thatched roofs, pimento smoke filled air and most likely locals playing dominos and drinking another of Jamaica’s claim to fame- the infamous Red Stripe beer.
