Island Routes Offers Self-Driving MINI Cooper Tours of Jamaica
Caribbean adventure company Island Routes is adding a new tour option for its visitors to Jamaica: self-driving MINI Cooper tours in Negril and Ocho Rios. The new offering was introduced to travel agents attending the Sandals STAR Awards. The company will start selling the tours in early 2017. According to David Shields, vice president of […]
Doctor’s Cave Beach, Hellshire Beach, Strawberry Fields Beach – This Week’s Picks for Best Jamaica Instagram Photos
Check out this week’s best photos of Jamaica and Jamaican culture on Instagram. Our favorites this week include images from Doctor’s Cave Beach, Hellshire Beach, Strawberry Fields Beach. If you would like your photo featured on our site tag your shots with the hashtag #jamaicansphotos and follow us @jamaicans_com on Instagram. Doctor’s Cave Beach Montego […]
Kingston Makes New York Times “Must Visit” List for 2017
The New York Times, a leading United States newspaper, compiled a list of the 52 Best Places to Go in 2017. Ranked at Number 24, is Kingston, Jamaica, and the country’s tourist industry is delighted. The Jamaica Tourist Board (JTB) called the designation “enviable,” noting that it has come shortly after Kingston was named a […]
Blue Lagoon Rafting, Waterslide from Mystic Mountain, Montego Bay Villa Life – This Week’s Picks for Best Jamaica Instagram Photos
Check out this week’s best photos of Jamaica and Jamaican culture on Instagram. Our favorites this week include images from Blue Lagoon Rafting, Waterslide from Mystic Mountain, Montego Bay Villa Life. If you would like your photo featured on our site tag your shots with the hashtag #jamaicansphotos and follow us @jamaicans_com on Instagram. Rafting […]
8 Jamaican Resorts on Conde Nast Reader’s Choice List for Best of 2016
Eight Jamaican Resorts received the 2016 Readers’ Choice award for Caribbean destinations. The list ranks 60 resorts in the Caribbean. Jamaican resorts ranked fifth, sixth, 20th, 21st, 24th, 30th, 43rd, and 50th on the list. Over 300,000 travelers participated in the 2016 survey, the 29th edition of the survey. Millions of ratings were given, and […]
Montego Bay Firm to Offer New Film Tour in Jamaica
Caribic Vacations of Montego Bay has been selected to be the exclusive provider of the “Jamaica: Land of Film” bus tour by Commercial Services. The tour is designed to provide a sightseeing tour and a unique guide to the history of film productions on the island. The tour has been constructed from research done by […]
Day 366 of 365 Things to Do, See & Eat in Jamaica – Take a Ride Down Bamboo Avenue
Bamboo Avenue in St. Elizabeth can be found on the main South Coast Highway between Middle Quarters and Lacovia. The avenue was planted with the largest variety of bamboo introduced to Jamaica, the Bambusa Vulgaris. Bamboo Avenue stretches for about 2.5 miles, with the largest plants forming an exotic canopy through which visitors can travel. […]
Day 365 of 365 Things to Do, See & Eat in Jamaica – Visit the Birthplace of Poet Claude McKay
Claude McKay, a well known writer and poet, was born in James Hill, Clarendon, in 1889. Once he finished his elementary schooling, he worked as an apprentice to a cabinet maker and wheelwright in St. Ann. He went to Kingston in 1910 and joined the constabulary force. His first volume of poems “Songs of Jamaica […]
Luminous Lagoon, Sunset in Westmoreland, Guineps Fruit – This Week’s Picks for Best Jamaica Instagram Photos
Check out this week’s best photos of Jamaica and Jamaican culture on Instagram. Our favorites this week include images from Luminous Lagoon, Sunset in Westmoreland, Guineps Fruit. If you would like your photo featured on our site tag your shots with the hashtag #jamaicansphotos and follow us @jamaicans_com on Instagram. The Luminous Lagoon, Falmouth by […]
Day 364 of 365 Things to Do, See & Eat in Jamaica – Restoration: The Persian Water Wheel
The Falmouth Heritage Renewal group and students from the University of Virginia Falmouth Field School restored and rebuilt the Persian Water Wheel in 2008. The wheel was originally ordered and installed by the Falmouth Water Company in 1798. It is a vertical wheel that measures 20 feet in diameter, and a dam was constructed to […]