http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Jamaica/Ocho-Rios/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Central America Caribbean , Jamaica , Ocho Rios en-us Sat, 06 Sep 2008 22:40:08 BST Sat, 06 Sep 2008 22:40:08 BST So just to catch up on the last few days...Keith and I spoke to the woman at our guesthouse and told her what happened when we tried to buy bus tickets to Ocho Rios and she flipped out. Turns out she knows the guy who runs the bus company she called him immediately and told him what happened. We were assured that we would get on the bus Saturday morning without any problems. We get up bright http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Jamaica/Ocho-Rios/blog-295074.html One of the world's most amazing unexplained healing springs is Firewater. This still somewhat secret healing spring is located in the hills of St. Anns in a small rasta community. Firewater was diiscovered around 80 years ago by the 107 year old woman called Aunty or Granny May. Her birth name is Mehala Smith and she will proudly tell you that she was born on March 8 and that she is 107 years ol http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Jamaica/Ocho-Rios/blog-286580.html When I decided to return to ships for another contract I made some clear goals for myself. Experiences I wanted to have that I could accomplish during this time at sea. The biggest one was getting my dive certification. Done. I also wanted to go parasailing. Also done. With less than 2 weeks left on the ship there was one more I had to do go horseback riding in the ocean.I rode horses as http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Jamaica/Ocho-Rios/blog-283402.html Yes to another adventureToday a group of us ventured to a spot in Jamaica known as The Blue Hole. I went along with Ema who until the start of this week was my roomie Thahn Ema's boyfriend who works in the Casino Craig social host Danny fitness instructor who sadly leaves the end of this cruise and Eddy the DJ. The Blue Hole is a spot that apparently only crew members usually go http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Jamaica/Ocho-Rios/blog-274814.html Before Mom Lee came to cruise with me wersquod emailed a bunch of times about things they were interested in doing in the ports. I was surprised pleased but surprised when they said what they really wanted to do was go ziplining Ocho Rios Jamaica is the one port wersquore visiting this week where that is an option so today thatrsquos what we did.We first had about a half hour bus http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Jamaica/Ocho-Rios/blog-261757.html Uno de mis sueos era conocer la Isla del Sol finalmente lo consegui. Ha sido realmente una de las experiencias ms fantasticas que he vivido nunca. La hospitalidad de su gente los bellisimos atardececeres la belleza de la isla Bob Marley... estarn por siempre en mis recuerdos. http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Jamaica/Ocho-Rios/blog-254973.html We were both very excited to go to Jamaica. We left the ship early and hopped on a bus out to the lsquoHappy Retreatrsquo Plantation where we had a tour around the plantation homestead circa 173035 and learned about all the local plants fruits and spices and how to prepare the famous Jamaican lsquoJerkrsquo foods. The owner of the homestead also gave us a brief history lesson on the O http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Jamaica/Ocho-Rios/blog-228394.html Hello all OK so we're not exactly travelling through South East Asia this time but thought we'd drop you a few lines to say hello as the blog was welcomed before and of course we can't be bothered to write any postcards while we're taking it easy So we've been in Jamaica for a few days now and it's absolutely fab just what we both hoped for...... rum reggae and relax they call it the 3 http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Jamaica/Ocho-Rios/blog-167203.html We stopped of in Jamaica today. WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO It was rather good last night because there was a huuuuge crew party last night with dodgy Engineer types from Indonesia cooking non descript meat for us. And more importantly there was beer. Lots of beer. So fortunately I had the next day off until the afternoon. After dragging myself out of bed at 11 a blessed lie in as far as i was conc http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Jamaica/Ocho-Rios/blog-164691.html We stopped of in Jamaica today. WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOORather bloody good because there was a huuuuge crew party last night with dodgy Engineer types from Indonesia cooking non descript meaqt for us. And more importantly there was beer. Lots of beer. beer beer beery beer.So fortunately I had the next day off until the afternoon. After dragging myself out of bed at 11 a blessed lie in as far as http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Jamaica/Ocho-Rios/blog-164075.html Roni's World Tour 2007 Respec' 'dats what we say here in Jamaica maan... ...where do I begin Jamaica proved to be a WHIRLWIND of a fourday adventure complete with lots of good food dancing adventuring if that's a word and OF COURSE a beautiful wedding to cap it off... ...but I guess the best place to begin is....well...the beginning So Mona and I set out BUTTASS early http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Jamaica/Ocho-Rios/blog-145482.html This was by far the best island of the trip. Not for its sheer beauty typographically speaking but the people were beautiful This is a poverty strickened land but the residents are nothing less than spectacular. They laugh they sing they dance The first thing i did when i got off the boat besides getting in trouble for bringing produce off the boat was get on a bus to innertube this river i th http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Jamaica/Ocho-Rios/blog-130567.html Ocho Rios was a great place to go for another 20 min walk really more like 40min walk to these falls where we had a few encounters with the locals. Very hot but very beautiful too. http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Jamaica/Ocho-Rios/blog-78355.html It's one of AJ's buzz phrases. AJ is of course my buddy and a cousin of my best friend Kylan who masterminded the whole Jamaican adventure I'm about to chronicle in this here blog. He likes to emphasize the truthfulness of what he's about to say or to diffuse the bluntness of what he just blurted out with those 4 words. So I too am not gonna lie.... it's been a helluva long time since I poste http://www.travelblog.org/Central-America-Caribbean/Jamaica/Ocho-Rios/blog-76724.html