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- Port-au-Prince
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Jacmel
Travel Blogs from Jacmel, Haiti
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bus rides, puke and a beggar
This is a top pick! ... things hit me in the eye and mouth so felt quite lucky to have been hit where i was.. My LP guidebook states that 'the new jacmel terminal is 2 miles out of town' so when i got off i asked the motocycle taxi how much to the guesthouse and he replied 25 ...
getting out of marrying a virgin
This is a top pick! shit.. after visiting the marigot beach which is a 30 minute taptap ride east of jacmel i downed a few bottles of prestige before commenting to my new haitien friend that i'd made a few days earlier about a girl who was walking past us. We'd been chatting ...
Jakmèl (Yaquimel)
We spent 2 days in Jacmel (Jakmèl or Yaquimel), a haitian beach town on the Carribean side of the island of Hispaniola. On route, through the winding mountain roads, we saw people walking alongside visiting each other, chatting, exchanging ...
Roadtrip
... from the mountain-sides on Sunday October 28th, along the route back to Port-au-prince airport from Jacmel (approx. 3 hour drive). Deforestation explains the browned landscape at higher elevations, a likely contributing factor for mudslides ...
From Port-au-Prince to Jacmel
... . He has been part of the Family since he was about 9 when he and his older brother left the streets of Jacmel. Fignole did a brilliant job of leading the evening reflections last night and during the 2 hour “study hall” last night ...
More than I planned for!
... week and I know that my body felt its age. I worked in the pharmacy all week and had little interaction with the people of Jacmel but I got to help out with one surgery and also got to see a very rare case with a 5 month old baby. Visiting ...
The week has flown by!
... to the child slaves and offer them a morning of basic math and reading instruction. We will pop into the market as we leave Jacmel and make our way back to Port-au-Prince. We really hate to leave - even when the humidity is through the roof ...
Les couleurs de Jacmel
... qui donne sur la mer des Caraibes. La traversée des montagnes fut superbe, mais on est vraiment tombé sous le charme de Jacmel, notre destination. Petite ville tranquille sur la mer, plaquée sous un soleil anormalement chaud de ce septembre. Il ne s'y ...
Farewell to Jacmel
... were my observations today as we made our way back over the mountains and down into Port-au-Prince. The city, as compared to Jacmel, is dirty and smelly and noisy - Michael's St Joseph's Home for Boys is an oasis and after a quick stop for ...
A full day at LST
We are sitting here with our new friends Geoffrey and Stephen enjoying a cold Prestige - a quite awesome Haitian beer that won the World Beer Cup in 2000! Our day at Trinity/LST ended with Wayne refereeing a mini hockey sticks game for the resident ...
Jacmel beauty
We had a great time in Haiti. There have not been a lot of tourists there recently. I would like to see this change, but I am afraid that it probably will not for some time. Although, we spent a great deal of time throughout the country and had a great ...
Soo much to process!
... In this mixed frame of mind we set off, after lunch, via moto (motorbike) to visit a public school on the other side of Jacmel. If you may recall from an earlier post he who is most aggressive owns the right of way on the streets – we ...
Kikote ou te pwe ale? My first trip to Haiti
... of racism that have persisted for almost two hundred years after the Spanish declared the Republic? I felt while I was in Haiti a sort of latent potential humming softly below the daily disasters, tragedies and hunger. Since returning I have heard ...
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