Travel Blogs from Jamaica

Month 3

A travel blog entry by phantom1212

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Month 3 in jamaica.  Last weekend we had "quarterlies".  4 times a year there is a meeting for volunteers in the peace corps office.  This meeting included voting for the new VAC (volunteer advisory council) which is kinda alot like student ...

Church Today

A travel blog entry by phantom1212

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Yesterday my family had a birthday party for there now 3 year old grand daughter! talk about a party they had a moon bounce with an alligator mouth for an entrance.  Plenty of jerk chicken, roast fish, and rice.  I cant believe how much rice ...

Four Days in Kingston...

A travel blog entry by smiling_nomad

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As the intro says, the adventure has finally started. ;) It is 6:47 p.m. in Kingston, Jamaica.  My stomach is full of rice, lentils and fruit sorbet (thanks to Eloine, my host mom), my room fan is three feet from my back (to deter both the mosquitos ...

Life Post-Gustav

A travel blog entry by smiling_nomad

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... my dissertation idea (which just added to my previously mentioned affections). We will be meeting every Thursday until I depart Jamaica. From that point, my advisor will change to the British counterpart. A decision has been made regarding my ...

Slow Boat to Kingston

A travel blog entry by pete-r

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... to land in the bay (the airport being on a spit of land) and the pelicans that landed just about everywhere. - - - - - - - (Later): Jamaica turns out to be less relaxed and much more uptight in a bureaucratic way than I'd imagined. Having berthed, we ...

Don't worry , be happy!

A travel blog entry by nat_dave

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Jamaica ...

Honeymoon to Jamaica

A travel blog entry by big_red_truck

Jacqui and I went on our honeymoon to Jamaica. We flew into Montego Bay and then had to take a 3 hour bus ride to our resort.  The Sandals Ochos Rios. See ...

Naar Haīti, of toch naar Jamaica?!

A travel blog entry by sylviaenjeroen

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... de gribfiles. We zien dat het koufront ons tegemoet komt en dat we dat nog zullen moeten passeren voor we op Jamaica aankomen. De gribfiles voorspellen ons 30 knopen wind schuin van achteren. Die windsterkte krijgen we ook inderdaad, zelfs verstrekt met ...

Day 1

A travel blog entry by oom3r

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   Forecast: Hi 84 F, Low 73 F  I arrived at my hostel and was amazed at how incredibly spacious it was. My room was almost as big as a shoe closet and there was even a bar downstairs for extra curricular activities. The place was ...

Blue Mountain Trip

A travel blog entry by jennipost

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... than 300 inches each year, which provides water to half of Jamaica's population. Together with the John Crow Mountains, this area is Jamaica's last remaining rainforest where many rare and exotic plants can be found. At times along the hike I wish I had ...

Alva

A travel blog entry by phantom1212

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... three times a year.  There I met the voleenter who lives about 15 minutes up the road.  Easter was fun apparently all jamaica likes to fly kites and eat this type of fruit cake called easter bun and this incredebly proccessed cheese together.  The ...

Negril

A travel blog entry by jennipost

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... the early evening since I calculated it would take about 4 hours to travel there. Negril is on the western tip of Jamaica and Ochi sits in the middle of the north coast. Unfortunately the ride was longer than expected, because I expected transportation ...

Give Thanks

A travel blog entry by jennipost

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... working. Jamaica is still developing in many ways, but computers, telephones, faxing are all accessible communication tools. As a volunteer in Jamaica where these tools and resources exist it is difficult not to use them or have access to them, which is ...

Getting There

A travel blog entry by oom3r

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Departure Time: 8:10 pm Departure Location:  O'Hare Airport/Chicago, Illinois Arrival Time: 12:00 am Arrival Location: Norman Manley Airport/Kingston, Jamiaca My Budget: A whopping $3500 -$619 for plane ticket -$105 for 7 ...

NEGRIL

A travel blog entry by boxedoff.com