Ocho Rios
Cruise ships dock in downtown Ocho Rios and you can easily walk straight into the town's craft markets, restaurants and bars.
Jamaica's Ocho Rios is known as the ‘garden parish' thanks to its lush tropical flora and exotic fauna, magnificent waterfalls and winding rivers. The coastal island town also boasts one of Jamaica's most popular attractions, Dunn's River Falls.
Like all Jamaican towns, Ocho Rios is alive with reggae music and tourists who meander along the beaches and through the open-air restaurants and markets. Movie buffs know that ‘Goldeneye', the luxurious former estate of James Bond author Ian Fleming, is just a few miles east of town. It's been converted into a high-end resort.
Jamaica's Ocho Rios is known as the ‘garden parish' thanks to its lush tropical flora and exotic fauna, magnificent waterfalls and winding rivers. The coastal island town also boasts one of Jamaica's most popular attractions, Dunn's River Falls.
Like all Jamaican towns, Ocho Rios is alive with reggae music and tourists who meander along the beaches and through the open-air restaurants and markets. Movie buffs know that ‘Goldeneye', the luxurious former estate of James Bond author Ian Fleming, is just a few miles east of town. It's been converted into a high-end resort.
Montego Bay
Lush, green and hilly, Jamaica is the third-largest Caribbean island, after Cuba and Hispaniola. Its population is largely descended from African slaves brought here to work sugar cane fields. Pirates loved Jamaica's protected anchorages. But the Royal Navy ultimately did away with buccaneers, and in the 20th century, tourism and mining surpassed sugar, rum and coffee production in the economy. But even a visitor is likely to notice Jamaica is an island of haves and have-nots.
