Negril, on the west side of Jamaica, is about a 1.5-hour drive from Montego Bay. The Grand Lido is situated on a 2.5-mile crescent of private beach north of town. The resort was built in 1989. Grand Lido Negril is a Super All Inclusive Resort suitable for couples and adult families 16 years and older.

210 suites, all the rooms are all suites or junior suites, complete with king beds, sitting areas, large baths, and satellite TVs.

The suites include balconies or patios and refrigerators stocked with soft drinks, beer, and water.

The resort pampers with Super-Inclusive amenities including complimentary manicures and pedicures, 24-hour room service, dry cleaning, land and water sports, and a choice of four gourmet dinner restaurants.

Water Sports include windsurfing, sunfish sailing, water-skiing, kayaking, snorkeling, underwater-vision boat rides, scuba diving with daily dives for beginners.

In the day, there are a myriad of new discoveries: the state-of-the-art fitness center, a spirit-and-body soothing spa and the centuries old cotton tree in the gardens.

Known also as the Niagara of the Caribbean, it’s undoubtedly the most popular tourist attraction in Jamaica. Located in Ocho Rios, Dunn’s River Falls is a dramatic 600-feet drop of cascading water it’s one of national treasures in the island. They attract thousands of visitors every year for ….. a climbing….

It’s a true! Dunn’s River Falls are truly breathtaking cascading waterfalls offers 600 feet of climbing to its guests. If you are physically able to “climb” the falls it is a must –it’s an incredible cascading falls challenge. The visitors carefully climb up limestone cascades, hand-in-hand like a human daisy chain, guided by competent staff. The professional guides are very knowledgeable and will ensure your comfort and safety at all times.

Water shoes are required and are available for rent if you do not bring your own. The fee: admission to Dunns River Falls is $10.00, shoe rental is $5.00. For more information – click here

Barbados is an independent continental island situated east of the Caribbean Sea in the western Atlantic Ocean. The east coast of the island is home to clean, perfect and enormous waves. The island’s west coast is emerged as: powdery beaches, clear turquoise water, maincured estates, really maincured resorts and even though maincured golf courses. As well as this part of the island is known as the Platinium Coast, due to the color of its sparkling coastline. But this is Barbados of the travel agencies and guidebooks. This is only half the story. Let me tell you about the wild Barbados.

The eastern coast of Barbados is a whole other world. Hide away from the luxury resorts by acres of sugar cane fields, thick verdant forests and trees full of wild monkeys, this is Barbados’s real side. You could spend all your time in the west and never know the real Barbados. The east is run by the locals, not the tourists.

The main town in eastern Barbados is called Bathsheba. The town look as if it was once the playground of mythical creatures, because of the enormous limestone boulders strewn in the shallows. The wind sweeping along the hillside, which is hollowed by the warm blasts and palm trees. It’s a coastline carved by centuries of wind blowing from thousands of miles away.

With such an identity, come characters. This is a place, where people have names like Biju, Yellow and Chicken. But the real celebrity in town is Soup Bowl, the island’s biggest wave. ” When Soup Bowl is good, it gives you goose bumps”, said Ms. Pitcher – a surf teacher.

On a map, Barbados looks as if it is drifting out into the open Atlantic, which is exactly what makes Soup Bowl ideal. Soup Bowl is one of the tip three waves in the world. This wave can travel nearly three thousands miles in the open ocean, undisturbed by sandbars, reefs or land, before it breaks the island.

Aquatic life in Barbados isn’t just for world champions, professional athletes and people who want they could surf before they could walk. Much of the coasts offer makeshift beer bars, street food, vendors selling fried fish and cheap guesthouses that are so appealing to people who prefer to watch surfing, than waxing a board. But the locals will remind you one more time: What makes Barbados unique is that there is a single wave for everyone.

Anyone can surf Barbados and I mean anyone. You can close your eyes and point to the calendar – any day you hit, Barbados will have great beginner and intermediate waves. Action! Do you want a drink? Listen if I say Jamaica you think reggae right, but when I say Barbados nothing comes to mind and that has to change. But I would say also: Popular is good, too popular is dangerous!

American Airlines has nonstop flights from Kenedy Airport in New York to Grantley Adams International Airport in Seawell, Christ Church on the south side of Barbados, about a 25-minute drive from the surf beaches near Bathsheba.

Caribbean Plate is a region comprises more than 7000 islands, reefs and cays. The picture displays a jetty at Pigeon Pant, Trinidad and Tobago. The place is very cheap by Caribbean standards. Beers are often $2 and seafood is plentiful.

Aruba – a Dutch territory, which is more than just hotel rooms and casinos. You can discover a more beautiful part of Aruba, for instance snorkeling near by Antilla shipwreck, where the water is  saturated with life.

Grand Case St. Maarten/St. Martin. With many white-sands beaches, the island reveals a natural beauty and solitude, doesn’t cost a cent.

Jamaica – there are no megaresorts hogging the shoreline, no traffic lights and no Margaritavilles on Treasure Beach, a six-mile stretch of rugged shoreline along the country’s southwestern coast.

Antigua – the island has long been synonymous with tucked-away upscale resorts, but its vibe is actually more natural than showy.

Seven Mile Beach, which is free like all of the other island’s beaches, Cayman Islands!

Ian Fleming was a British author born 100 years ago. Fleming is best remembered for creating the character of James Bond in his adopted island of Jamaica. Goldeneye the writer’s villa in Oracabessa is today an exclusive resort known for its exotic gardens.

The three-bedroom villa at Goldeneye, where Fleming wrote most of his stories featuring Agent 007 costs up to $3, 400 a night.

This is the private beach at Goldeneye. the author often trod there with fins mask and spear in hand. He lived in Jamaica when you could get there by banana boat, and he described Negril on the west coast as a “five-mile crescent of unbroken, soft, white gold sand, fringed for all its dazzling length with leaning palm trees.

The picture displays Fleming’s gardener, left, who still works at Goldeneye.

Fleming and his wife Ann weremarried in Port Maria’s town hall. She didn’t share her husband’s love of Jamaica, however never staying as long on the island as he would.

The Rastafari Exhibition at the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History in Washington features art and artifacts from the Jamaican- born sculpture. ‘’Bob Marley, ganja and dreadlocks are still here’’ said Edward Rothstein.

Edward also explained that most of us know Rastafari only through these popular manifestations. But what is really Rastafari? Is it a religion? A way of life? A kind of movement? So all of the above, as ‘’Discovering Rastafari’’ displays.

The exhibition tells the story of the local folk religion that began before 80 years with the main belief- Haile Selassie – the 20^th- century Ethiopian emperor was the living God, the Black Messiah.

The Rastafari beliefs grew out of a particular experience which is slavery and its aftermath in Jamaica, also a view of how that suffering might be overcome. In this case, ordeal was relieved by a hope adapted from the biblical dream of Zion, that someday blacks might return to a land from which they were exiled: Ethiopia.”

‘’These ideas were amplified by the charismatic, Jamaican-born black leader Marcus Garvey, who urged all blacks to see themselves in a common struggle,” writes Rothstein. “When Ethiopia’s prince regent, Tafari Makonnen, who had the honorific title ‘Ras,’ was crowned emperor of Ethiopia, Garvey called on his followers to join together and ‘lift up the hand of Emperor Ras Tafari.

During the years Rastafari belief starts to seem almost sunny. Actually, the history is far darker. Rastafari belief developed partly out of resentment, not just against whites, but against the black middle-class culture of Jamaica. This was one reason the once-disreputable styles of dreadlocks and the ceremonial smoking of marijuana became so important.

The fabulous hotel is located in west end road in Negril, Jamaica. This hotel is formation of 20 villas (4 with lofts), 6 studios and 9 standard rooms. The Rockhouse Hotel is located at the cliffs of Pristine Cove in Negril.

Lazy ceiling fans and large four-poster beds with mosquito netting reflect the laid back atmosphere. The cliffside freshwater pool was carved from solid rock, as were the ladders and stairs that lead down into Pristine Cove for swimming and snorkelling. The wood-hewn terraced restaurant and bar offers some of the best food in Negril, through a new more modern interpretation of traditional Jamaican cuisine, featuring the flavourful spice of curries and the sweetness of tropical fruits.

The restaurant, suspended directly over the water, makes it one of the best places to watch the sun go down. The new Rockhouse Spa, featuring the cliff edge Caribbean Drench cabana, offers a full range of body and beauty treatments and Yoga in their new Yoga room overlooking the sea.

The premium villas, constructed over the water on the cliffs edge with westward, sunset views, are individual thatch roofed cottages offering spacious, wrap around, private terraces, private outdoor showers open to the skies and sliding glass doors providing great vistas of Pristine Cove.

The River Falls – This is popular attraction is visited by thousands of
visitors each year. You will beat the crowds you climb the 600 feet water -
falls with the help guides. Everyone is suppose to hold hands as you go
up the falls. Also special shoes can be rented but are not required, to
climb the falls. After climbing the falls , we headed back down to the relatively,
small but uncrowded beach where the River meet the ocean.

Ocho Rios is once a sleepy fishing village it is discovered by tourist. Also Golf, Tennis and many others games.

The glistening shores of the Caribbean Sea in Ocho Rios are a magnificent setting for your favorite resort activities. Water sports are some of the most popular activities here. Lessons in windsurfing, sunfish sailing, and kayaking are available daily.

Bob Marley Mausoleum -
Reggae music fans from the world over make the pilgrimage to the famed singer/songwriter’s grave site at the village of Nine Mile, about 65km south of Ocho Rios. Marley lived in the Nine Mile hamlet between the age of six and 13. The two-room shack in which he lived is open to view, filled with memorabilia, and alongside it is the mausoleum in which Marley and his half-brother are buried. The site also has a vegetarian restaurant and small shop. Reggae concerts are held at Nine Mile each year on 6 February, Marley’s birthday.
Jazz Festival – This year at the 17th annual Jamaica Ocho Rios internacional Jazz festival. The greatest names in Jamaican Jazz which featuret the likes of Ernie Ranglin, Maurice Gordon Trio, Peter Hudson and many musicans every year.
The cristal blue Caribbean sea, the warmest weather, the exotishen tropical fruite and beautiful restaurants , luxury hotels, and flowers garden made Ocho Rios- paradise town.

Come on, we move on to the next station – Negril. He is very popular and has grown rapidly in recent years. Negril is resort area on the island’s west coast. Resort development is carefully controlled, and no building by law is allowed to be taller than the tallest palm. Apart from the beautiful beaches, the waters offer world-class diving and a wealth of watersports.

Mandeville is a cool, clean, rural Jamaican town. It is the chief town of manchester parish, Jamaica`s mountain resort, the island`s largest urban center. Mandeville has a charm – and a climate – all of its own, as if it has been sheltered against al the developments in the capital and around the coast. It has a town square, parish church and clock tower, and many large, elegant early nineteenth-century houses to see along the winding streets. The square is more like a village green and Mandeville has been described as the most English town on Jamaica.

We continue our journey with the capital of Jamaica – Kingston. It is not only a capital but also commercial, administrative and cultural heart of the island. It is the largest English-speaking city in the Caribbean.

The most exquisite port on earth – Port Antonio. The town`s twin harbours, jewel blue sea and fresh hillsides still entrap the visitors. Port Antonio, like Montego Bay, claims to be the cradle of the tourist trade.

St. Elizabeth is located on Jamaica’s south west. On the quiet side of Jamaica, St. Elizabeth boasts an incredibly diverse terrain. There are deserted beaches all along the southern coastline with picturesque fishing villages and small sandy coves hidden among the rocks. The Black River, Jamaica’s longest river, is flushed through the Great Morass, a swampy marshland that is the largest wetland habitat in the Caribbean. St. Elizabeth has long been ignored as a tourist destination and the small farming and fishing communities still retain the flavor of ‘old-time’ Jamaica, making it a prime destination for the truly adventurous.

This cozy little coastline features a well-manicured beach shrouded in lush, green, shady palm and almond trees. When you need a break from Turtle Beach’s watersports, or shelter from the sultry island sun, there’s plenty of places to cool off. Those of you, who are hoping for a taste of seclusion in Jamaica may find that Turtle Beach is just the right spot and will not be disappointed. You’ll find urban areas without going far, but you won’t be too far from the beaten path, it is an excellent middle ground.

Plenty of wonderful sights can be enjoyed during your visit. The beach can be a relaxing experience, but natural attractions, like Enchanted Gardens, Coyaba River Garden and Museum and Dunn’s River Falls can be wonderful additions to your tropical vacation.

Nearest Hotels to Turtle Beach:

* Sunset Jamaica Grande Resort and Spa
* Village Hotel
* SandCastles Resort
* Crane Ridge Resort
* Sandals Grande Ocho Rios Beach & Villa Resort
* Jamaica Inn
* Royal Plantation

This delightful beach is located on Jamaica’s northeastern coast, near Ochos Rios, so you can tour the town after your visit to the beach.

Google Earth Placemark – Jamaica’s Turtle Beach.