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GLOBETROTTING
With Herman
THIS GEM CALLED
"JAMAICA"
The Union Jack of Imperial
Britain has been gone now since
1962. The flag of free Jamaica is
green, gold and black, The
colours are there wherever you
look: the green in the hills and
valleys, the gold in the sunlight,
the black in the faces of the
people. They shine and gleam.
They intermingle. They blend
with other colours: the blue of
sky and sea, the white of beaches,
the yellow of fruits, the red of
earth.
Putting first things first, Ja-
maica is beautiful, It is also big
(as Caribbean islands go) with an
area exceeded only by Cuba's
and Hispaniola's and a popula-
tion pushing toward two million.
No "pancake with a palm tree,"
Jamaica is a land of many moods
and aspects, faces and voices. Of
lagoons and mountain peaks,
cane fields and bauxite, orchids
and traffic jams, hotels and
history.
"Yes sir," a taximan said
proudly, "our island's got every-
thing there is." Then he added,
"Except money," But even that
seems to be coming.
I flew into Kingston, its capital.
Though one of the largest cities in
the Caribbean, it is emerging
from the 19th century. It sprawls
and swarms, but 99 per cent with
homegrown Jamaicans. Other
than the short-stay passengers on
winter cruise ships, the main-
stream of visitors prefer the
north shore resorts, where the
beaches are. I spent a total of 2
days in the Kingston area visiting
such attractions as the Hope Bo-
-tanical Gardens, a splendid array
of tropical flora, with a few fauna
added. Close by is the University
of the West Indies, in which you
can see Jamaica's past and pow-
erfully feel its future. Also during
your stay in Kingston a visit to
Port Royal is a must. At the tip of
the long arm of land that forms
the outer rim of Kingston's har-
bour, the old town was long the
capital of Jamaica,, the strong-
hold of Henry Morgan and his co-
buccaneers, once known as the
"richest and wickedest city" in
the world. In 1692 Port Royal was
stricken by an earthquake that
tumbled most of it into the sea.
After two days in Kingston
(just right, I should say, in a two-
week trip) I took to the road in a
rented car. This is no project to
be undertaken lightly. One's
hired car is tiny, frail and driven
by clutch and gearstick on the left
side of the road. Opposition cars,
trucks and buses are often huge
and ferocious. They roar around
Jamaica's five-million blind
curves at fifty-per, neatly strad-
dling the central dividing line.
Even if your nerves are not
quite those of an astronaut, the
strain is worth it. For the island's
interior is surpassingly lovely.
On the flat coastal plains you are
flanked by seas of sugar cane. As
the road rises and twists you
come to the realm of bananas,
coffee, cocoa, bamboo, bread-
fruit and yams. When the land
steepens into true mountains, the
way lies through deep gorges and
grottoes, their walls lined with al-
most vertical hanging jungles. At
the top of a rise, unexpectedly,
there may be a bare plateau, with
the raw red earth and looming
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sheds of a bauxite plant. But
these are --soon gone. There is
again only the green foiesT until
you top a final rise and see, far
ahead and below, the shining blue
miles of the Caribbean.
Naturally space does not allow
me to go into complete detail of
all the places I encountered along
the way, so I'll just mention a
few, First of all there's the town
of Mandeville, 2,000 feet in the
hills. For years Mandeville has
been the holiday refuge of Kings-
ton Britishers seeking the cool-
ness of elevation, But the North-
American Tourist, seeking not
coolness but warmth, has
avoided it. Westward from Man-
deville are villages with won-
drous names: among them Pep-
per, Gutter, Lilliput, Maggotty.
Here are goats, donkeys, roos-
ters, naked wide-eyed children
and kerchiefed women beating
their wash against the stones of
stream beds.
It is not all pastoral idyll, for in
the village one finds a gas pump,
a Coke dispenser, and a sign say-
ing F. WATSON, OFF-COURSE
BETTING, And along the road-
side are groups of men, young
and old, loafing the day away. In
spite of Jamaica's great strides
in agriculture, industry and tour-
ism, there is still noticeable un-
employment on the island. In the
southwestern area, most jobs for
men are on sugar plantations.
But sugar is a seasonal crop, and
this was not the season.
We continue on and what
gleams ahead is one of the great-
est beaches of the world. We have
come to Negril, at the island's
far-western end. Ahead, for long
miles, are bows and arcs and
crescents of virgin sand. There if:
one small hotel here, the Sun-
downer, a small open-air restaur-
ant specializing in seafood and
some beach cottages that can be
rented. Here I stopped, changed
into swimming trunks. It was one
of the memorable experiences of
a lifetime, for on those seven
sweeping miles of beach I was the
only human being. Leaving sand
for silken. water, I was the only
visible creature in all the miles of
the Caribbean.
Later, back on shore, a few
men and boys appeared to work
on a, small,heached. boat- a. few;
hundredyards from,me. Butt they
stayed only a short while. A small
crab sidled up, seemed to eye me
curiously and took his departure.
All that was left were sun, sea,
sand and self.
But alas, I had to continue on.
"Mo" Bay was there all yight,,as
lush and plush and lovely as I re-
member it frommy last visit: a
resort that, to my mind, comes as
near to having everything as any
in the world. True there is no
spectacular single beach like Ne-
gril's, But the justly famous
strand of Doctor's Cave (public)
and those of many of the hotels
(private or semi-private) are, on
a smaller scale, pure gems. Day
or night in Montego there is al-
ways something to do, and better
yet, perhaps it is the perfect
place for doing nothing.
Montego Bay establishments
run the gamut from the top-
bracket cottage colonies through
the more conventional resort
hotels, to a host of small inns and
guest houses with modest accom-
modations and rates. Some are
close to town, some are out a
way. Some are on the shore,
others on the hillsides a short dis-
tance inland.
In the old days, (meaning fif-
teen years ago) the north shore of
Jamaica, for the tourist meant
Montego Bay, period. Now the
whole 150-mile sweep is on its
way to becoming a tropical
Riveria.
There is still confusion as to
what Ocho Rios is. Basically, it's
a town, a very small town with a
big traffic circle. But for touristic
purposes it has given its name to
the whole strip of shore from St.
Ann's Bay to Port Maria. Town or
strip, it is beautiful, more so, I
would say, than Montego Bay,
though it still lags behind its older
rival in tradition and cachet. It
offers much to see and do. Close
by, is Fern Gully, a road built in
an old river bed that for two miles
bores an emerald tunnel through
the heart of a lush overgrowth. To
the west is Dunn's River Falls, a
cascade of silver water flowing
directly into the sea over rocks so
smooth yet unslippery that one
can climb right up them to the
heights. If you think a plantation
tour sounds dull (as I did), you
will be mistaken. With fabulous
flora and top-drawer guides,
Brimmer Hall is a 90-minute de-
light, topped by a dip in the pool
and a planter's punch.
Guests at a beach barbecue at the foot of famed Dunn's River Falls are seranaded by a
Jamaican combo. The feast is one of the new Ocho Rios 'Boonoonoonoos' happenings and
includes dancing and an open bar:
Port Antonio, the third of the
north coast's prime resort areas
is smaller than Mo Bay and Ocho
Rios and has a very bright future.
Scenically it's gorgeous. As back-
drop, there rise the highest peaks
of the Blue Mountains, and front
and center are deep bays and
bold headland. Also it is the
greenest and lushest section of
the island, for which a price must
be paid in more rain. But the
rains are quick, heavy, and sud-
denly gone. Green and gold re-
turn, richer, brighter than ever.
The star aquatic attraction of the
area is not offshore but inland.
This is rafting on the nearby Rio
Grande, which has now been go-
ing on for nearly half a century
and has become one of the is-
land's popular tourist attrac-
tions. Unique among island
rivers, the Grande nresents an
eight-mile course of pools and
channels, rapids and spillways.
Long bamboo rafts, poled by ex-
pert "captains" and with a
thronelike seat for two passen-
gers, makes the kaleidoscopic
run in two hours.
Oh yes, there's much to see, do
and enjoy in grand Jamaica. It's
a holiday destination the entire
family can enjoy, and one which I
can highly recommend to you.
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