Category: Jamaica 2016
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10 things that make me laugh/smile in Jamaica
Jamaica definitely has a lot of issues within its society and there are some things which are hard to get used to when you first arrive, but despite this, Jamaica is a place with so much culture, character and life, and I find myself laughing and smiling at a variety…
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Loading Buses in Jamaica
One of the frequently used types of public transport in Jamaica is the coaster bus, basically a minibus. They’re privately owned (as opposed to the big yellow government buses) and there are set routes that they take e.g. Kingston – Port Antonio, stopping on the way to pick up more…
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Sunning Hill, Jamaica
I felt like leaving Kingston for a few days on my days off, so I booked a random AirBnB in a community in the Blue Mountains called Sunning Hill. To get to Sunning Hill from Kingston, you take a coaster bus (minibus) to Morant Bay from downtown from outside Mothers Express…
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Football Matches in Jamaica
In general I think sports games are a great cultural experience wherever you’re travelling, and they don’t tend to be too ‘touristy’, so it’s something I try and find out about when I’m abroad. I’ve been in Jamaica about 6 weeks and I’ve been lucky enough to go to two…
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Ibo Spice Restaurant and Art Centre
Yesterday in downtown Kingston I made a pretty cool discovery – a place called Ibo Spice which is located at 131 Orange Street (walking distance from the Parade where the buses stop. Just look at Google Maps before you go and you should be able to find it). From the…
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Cane River Falls, Jamaica
The other day by basically just searching online for lists of waterfalls in Jamaica, I found another cool place to add to my collection of ‘easy day trips from Kingston’. Cane River falls is apparently where Bob Marley used to wash his dreadlocks, but apart from that I couldn’t find…
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Life Yard – An Inner City Jamaican Farm
One way to find cool things to do in the country you’re visiting is to read previous visitors’ travel blogs and basically follow their instructions of where to go. I’d read on one travel blog about a place called Life Yard which was described as a farm in the middle…
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Bowden Hill, Jamaica
I’ve been in Kingston for a week now and I was starting to miss the countryside, so I decided to search for some local people on the Couchsurfing app (a site/app to meet local people who like to host travelers or show them around their city) who might be able…
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Coronation Market, Kingston
On my second day in Jamaica, I wanted to go and explore a random area so I took a bus to Downtown Kingston with a girl and a boy from the hostel I’m staying at in the centre of Kingston. People had said it’s a kind of hectic/dangerous place and…
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