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Sun Valley Plantation Tour from Ocho Rios

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Sun Valley Plantation is a working plantation and botanical farm owned and operated by Lorna and Nolly Binns. You will be treated to personalize service every step of the way as Lorna and her staff take you through a little piece of Jamaica you will never forget. They offer enjoyable garden tours in a plantation setting beside the Crescent River.

Venture on a 90 minutes tour of this working plantation. Your guide will tell you the story of the property from the slave era to present day. Sample and learn about tropical fruits, coconuts, otaheite apples and other exotic fruits. Watch bananas being packaged for export and keep your eyes open for hummingbirds and other local birds.

You will have fun meeting and leisurely strolling about with your host on lands that are steeped in history, and have been producing a variety of tropical fruits and food for over 250 years.

Learn about tropical fruits and plants, and the therapeutic and medicinal values of the trees, herbs, and spices that you will see while on the plantation. Along the way you can sample a variety of fruits straight from the trees, like the mysterious jelly (coconut), otaheite apple and other exotic fruits.

The Sun Valley Plantation tour is a treat for the eyes, ears, nose and taste buds.

At the end of your tour on the plantation, Jamaica’s National Dish, and more with a variety of natural juices will be served.

The following options are also available after your excursion:

• Enjoy some Jamaican lunch, this includes authentic spicy Jamaican Jerked Pork or Chicken along with unique side orders like Festivals and Bammy. (The cost of lunch is not included in the excursion rates)
• Visit Jimmy Buffet’s Margaritaville Sports Bar and Grill by the Beach.
• Duty Free Shopping in town and or shopping by the Craft Market.

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Re: Sun Valley Plantation Tour from Ocho Rios

Aug 14, 2024

Big up Dwight!

Jamaica was our most favorite stop on our cruise thanks to you and Karandas Tours.

We are back home in New York and miss Jamaica already. Thanks for arranging this tour for my parents. They are from Germany and wanted to do something different. This tour was very informative and the guide was very helpful.

We also enjoyed our driver Willy.

We will definitely recommend your company to friends.

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• Adult: US$ 60.00
• Child: US$ 45.00
• Available: MON, WED, FRI
• Duration: 4 hours
• Minimum: 4 Persons
• Child Age Limit: Under 3yrs. Free
• Entrance fees included.
• Group discounted rate for 10 or more persons.
• If your party consists of 2 or 3 persons, please contact us and we will put you with another group.

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CROYDON IN THE MOUNTAINS

Experience jamaica's historic croydon plantation, top-rated jamaican farm & plantation tour.

Discover the Croydon Plantation, Jamaica's top destination for farm and plantation tours . Renowned as one of Jamaica's highest-rated estate experiences, we invite you to immerse yourself in the purity of life. Located in the breathtaking Catadupa Mountains near Montego Bay, Croydon In The Mountains honors the Jamaican hero Samuel Sharpe and showcases the region's rich agricultural heritage.

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Explore the heart of Jamaica with Croydon In The Mountains' unique tour experiences. From our renowned coffee tours to the vibrant pineapple adventures, each visit promises a glimpse into the authentic Jamaican farm life. Join us and discover the purity of life!

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Our visit to Croydon Plantation was enlightening, offering deep insights into Jamaica's history, culture, and rural challenges, with the owner as our guide. The tour included delicious tastings and a thrilling bus ride into the mountains—highly recommended for those interested in authentic experiences.

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Atlanta, GA

We enjoyed a fantastic tour at this plantation during our Carnival cruise stop; it offered insightful presentations on pineapple, coffee, and bee cultivation, along with tastings of local fruits and snacks. The location is breathtaking, making it a memorable and educational day trip in the Montego Bay area.

Berwick, LA 

My husband and I with another couple stayed down the street. James Resort and they prepared our tour for us. Our guide and bus driver were very knowledgeable and were able to answer our questions. Once at the plantation we were able to walk and taste the pineapples and coffee. I would recommend this trip.

- Janice W.

My husband, a plant and animal enthusiast, loved our visit to Croydon in the Mountains, the tour guides, Elisa and Shakira, were fun and knowledgeable. . The drive was long and bumpy from our resort in Montego Bay, but the guide points out different landmarks along the way and it doesn't even seem that long!

Runnemede, New Jersey 

We went to Croydon Plantation with cruise, it was amazing and very informative. I found this very interesting and loved this tour. The pineapple was amazing and Shakira did a phenomenal job with the tour.

Oklahoma City, OK

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Embark on Jamaica's ultimate farm-to-table tour, where you'll pick fresh ingredients and cook a delicious meal with an expert Ital chef amidst stunning natural scenery. Don't miss this laid-back culinary adventure, perfect for foodies seeking a taste of authentic Jamaican vibes and cuisine.

Experience the Best Pineapple and Coffee Tour in Jamaica

Discover the heart of Jamaica with our captivating Pineapple and Coffee Tour. Immerse yourself in the organic farming landscape and indulge in the robust, authentic flavors of Jamaican coffee . Surrounded by the lush, tropical scenery, this tour is an ideal getaway for both nature aficionados and food lovers. You'll get an intimate look at Jamaica's rich cultural and agricultural traditions. Come along and experience the best of Jamaica's renowned pineapple and coffee production!

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The 1000-acre Prospect Plantation, which dates from 1721, is full of surprises and an attraction suitable for visitors of all ages. You can make friends with parrots and owls and take a variety of guided tours to learn about the plantation’s history and greenery.

People from all walks of life have planted trees at Prospect Plantation, including former Jamaican Prime Minister P.J. Patterson. In 1953, Sir Winston Churchill planted a mahogany tree in front of the Great House. Commemorative plaques document planting information on trees all over the property. Today, the former sugar estate grows bananas, cassava, coffee, allspice, coconut and many other crops, but not for the commercial market.

Your tour may take you past sugar cane plants and a 17th-century cane mill, stop at the White River Gorge for a magnificent view of St. Ann and St. Mary parishes, and get a look at Jamaica’s first hydroelectric power plant.

You could get a demonstration of coconut-tree climbing and learn about Jamaican fruits and vegetables, and after the lesson, enjoy a piece of coconut topped with brown sugar and visit the neighboring ostrich farm where the giant birds will greedily snatch snacks of greens right out of your hand!

Prospect Plantation had three owners before Sir Harold Mitchell purchased the farm in 1936. Sir Harold’s View is a great spot to look out lookout over the plantation. It is said to have been his favorite spot on the farm.

After Sir Harold’s death in 1983, ownership of the plantation passed his son-in-law and grandchildren. The Great House was built in the early 1800s and boasts many antiques, paintings, and artifacts from days gone by. It is surrounded by beautiful gardens, where you can feast your eyes on the stunning view.

Tucked away in the woods is another plantation surprise – camels! Camels were used to work Jamaica’s sugar cane plantations during the 1800s. Today, you can choose between taking a camel ride or getting your picture taken with “Cindy” the camel and the crew.

The plantation offers a variety of enjoyable tour options, including the Complete Plantation Tour by Open-Air Jitney, Camel Safari and PlantationTour, Plantation Tour on Horseback, Horseback River Ride plus Picnic Lunch, or Camel Safari, Hike and Cycle.

Prospect Plantation is managed and operated by Dolphin Cove Limited. For more information, call 974-5335 or visit www.prospectplantationtours.com .

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Croydon Plantation Tour invites you to visit its pineapple and citrus Plantation. Voted as being among Trip Advisors top ten things to do in Montego Bay, Jamaica, the plantation captures the true spirit of Jamaica. This working estate is nestled in the foothills of the Catadupa Mountains and offers visitors breath-taking, panoramic views of the surrounding countryside. The award winning Croydon Plantation has won the coveted National Champion Farmer Trophy 3 times. This piece of tropical paradise is a must see. Take in the rich history of the plantation, which is the birthplace of Samuel Sharpe, one of Jamaica's national heroes. Samuel Sharpe gave his life in the fight against slavery.

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From incredible mountain views to cultural insights, biking joy to Jamaican food; this experience has it all!

Could this be Jamaica’s best-kept secret? We’re the ONLY tour that gets you into the famous Blue Mountains; the cool, misty home of some of the most prized and expensive coffee in the world! Jamaica isn’t all beaches and coconut trees. Here, folks you bike past may be wearing sweaters. This is a side of Jamaica your friends haven’t seen, where the tallest peak is 1,500 feet higher than the biggest ski resort in France. Where wild hogs and the guinea pig-like coney roam in “elfin forest” below pine trees shrouded in mist. Descend a gentle 4,000 feet down next to tangerine and soursop trees, with almost no peddling, ending up at a jungle waterfall and swimming hole. Sample Jamaica’s coffee and touch the beans growing in the field. Have a hearty Jamaican lunch. And ride the highest (1,000 feet), longest zipline in Jamaica.

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From incredible mountain views to cultural insights to biking joy to jamaican food — this tour has it all.

Could this be Jamaica’s best-kept secret? We’re the ONLY tour that gets you into the famous Blue Mountains — the cool, misty home of some of the most prized and expensive coffee in the world! Jamaica isn’t all beaches and coconut trees. Here, folks you bike past may be wearing sweaters. This is a side of Jamaica your friends haven’t seen — where the tallest peak is 1,500 feet higher than the biggest ski resort in France. Where wild hogs and the guinea pig-like coney roam in “elfin forest”, below pine trees shrouded in mist..

Descend a gentle 4,000 feet down next to tangerine and soursop trees, with almost no peddling — ending up at a jungle waterfall and swimming hole. Sample Jamaica’s coffee and touch the beans growing in the field. Have a hearty Jamaican lunch. And ride the highest (1,000 feet), longest zipline in Jamaica. Let’s go!

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Smokin’ Sunset Tour *

Toke & tour.

Nuthin’ beats a Negril Sunset – except a Smokin’ Negril Sunset! Get your smoke on as we ride high to the countryside to explore one of the Jamaica’s Kush Ganja Farms. Learn from one of our legendary local farmers about the rich history, cultivation and harvesting of this beloved crop.

Next stop, a front row seat to some of the world’s most spectacular sunsets.

With live reggae daily and thrill seeking cliff diving – Rick’s Café is a Must Do for Any First Timer. Want something more local? We will head over to Three Dives.

Tour includes private driver, farm admission, guided tour, ice cold red stripes, rum punch, water, 420 gift and two hours to dive and dance the day away.

Duration: About 4 hours

USD $135 per person from Negril USD $175 per person from Montego Bay

Orange Hill Ganja Crawl *

Ride High with us to the Iconic Orange Hill known as the “Mecca of Growing in JA” on a Ganja Crawl.You’ll know we’re there with a stop at the Iconic Welcome Sign. Start the day with a “Roll like a Rasta” hands on demo and a cold Red Stripe at the legendary King’s House of Sensi.

Next we will visit two local farms to learn firsthand about the varying cultivation techniques, strains being produced, the land and the harvesting of this beloved crop. Relax with an Authentic Jamaican Lunch at Aunty’s and finish the day with infused ice cream at Cone, Cup & Stick.

Be sure to grab an Orange Hill T-shirt of your own and snap a pic in front of the Iconic Orange Hill Sign.

Tour includes private driver, admissions, guided farm tours, Roll Like a Rasta Demo, authentic jerk chicken lunch, infused ice cream, stocked cooler of ice cold Red Stripes, rum punch, water & a 420 gift.

Duration: About 6 hours

USD $215 per person from Negril USD $265 per person from Montego Bay

$10 from each guest will go to feeding local children and families in Orange Hill.

Wake & Bake Tour *

There is no better way to start the day than with an infused Blue Mountain French press coffee and a kush ganja farm tour. This is the plan:

• Ride high with us to the Wake & Bake Cafe where you can treat yo’ self to some home baked goodies.
• Feeling Irie yet? Next stop.
• Tour one of our kush ganja farms where you will learn about the history, cultivation, and harvesting of this beloved crop.

The tour includes private driver, farm admission, guided tour, Roll Like a Rasta demo, cup of infused Blue Mountain French press coffee & a 420 gift.

USD $125 per person from Negril USD $165 per person from Montego Bay

Add on a keepsake: A Toke & Tour Wake & Bake coffee mug for USD $15 or a signature Wake & Bake T-shirt for USD $20.

Blue Hole & Wabba’s Weed Adventure *

Soak, explore or jump the day away with us at the Blue Hole Mineral Spring and ganja farm in Brighton. A true “crowd pleaser”!

• Feeling relaxed? Soak the day away in the mineral spring filled pool and have a mud scrub.
• Feeling adventurous? Take the 25 ft. plunge into the Blue Hole.
• Feeling elevated? Take the hike to the ganja farm and view the vistas at the top.

The tour includes private driver, admission, guided farm tour from Negril area hotels, Roll Like a Rasta demo, ice cold Red Stripe and a 420 gift. USD $155 per person from Negril USD $205 per person from Montego Bay

Group rates available

Contact us about pick-up from Montego Bay, Ocho Rios, Kingston and other areas outside of the Negril area.

Orange Hill Kush Farm Tour *

Ride High with us to the mountainside to explore a few ganja farms and visit our friend’s in high places.

• Learn the rich history, cultivation and harvesting of this beloved crop from the local farmers.
• Sip on a Red Stripe as you take in the views and aromas.
• Wrap up the tour with a toke of your own while you learn how to “Roll like a Rasta”.
• Tour includes private driver, admission, guided farm tour, Roll Like a Rasta demo, ice cold red stripe & a 420 gift.

USD $115 per person from Negril USD $155 per person from Montego Bay

(Includes stop at Island Strains Herb House or Scotchies -purchases not included)

RastaSafari ATV & Ganja Farm Tour *

Kick up some dirt on a one-of-a-kind ATV countryside and ganja farm tour – the #1 TripAdvisor ranked land attraction in Negril. Travel with us to the community of Roaring River where you will adventure into the beautiful countryside on top notch Polaris ATVs for a 3 1/2-hour tour.

• Soak in the mineral springs
• Take in the sights of the natural beauty
• Chow on an authentic Jamaican lunch.

The tour includes private transportation from Negril area hotels, welcome drink, 2 hour guided ATV tour, ganja farm tour, an authentic Jamaican lunch, Red Stripe, rum punch, water and a 420 gift.

USD $235 per person from Negril USD $265 per person from Montego Bay

Contact us for pick-up from Montego Bay, Ocho Rios, Kingston and other areas outside of the Negril area.

Every-Likkle-Thing *

Nine mile resort village.

Nestled amidst the refreshing coolness of Dry Harbour Mountain, next door to the Bob Marley Mausoleum, the Nine Mile Resort Village welcomes visitors with a taste for adventure and a strong dose of Jamaican culture. This Every Likkle Thing “all-exclusive” package combines 3 different tours and includes:

• Hotel/cruise port pick up and return
• Meet your guide at the tour base where you’ll be gifted an amount of ganja in exchange for a donation to the Rastafarian church
• Embark on a 1-hour heritage tour of the resort village’s historical sites and points of interest
• Visit the village’s Sacramental Space for an introduction to various Rastafari rites and practices –among them, a brief primer on 7 different Jamaican grown ganja strains, including one of Bob Marley favorites
• 1-hour tour of the Bob Marley Mausoleum

US-$218 per person from Ocho Rios US-$230 per person from Trelawny / Runaway Bay US-$310 per person from Montego Bay

Participants in this tour must be at least 21 years of age but the village offers several other tour especially for children and families.

Natural Herb Tour *

Real lifestyle retreat and tours.

Your guide will pick you up with complimentary spliffs rolled and ready to smoke for your ride to an off-the-beaten-path ganja farm in the hills where you’ll be greeted by a grower eager to talk about his strains and have you sample his product. You’ll be free to linger; there’s never a rush to leave. The Montego Bay and Ocho Rios area farms visited will vary according to the time of year and the maturity of their plants.

This tour package includes:

• Pick up at your hotel, Airbnb or cruise ship port
• Farm entrance fee
• An education on how ganja is grown, cared for and harvested
• Opportunities to touch, sample and take photos
• Information on ganja in Jamaican culture, history, and heritage
• Stops at attractions and sites of interest along the way

Price: USD$ 150 per person (Montego Bay) From the Montego Bay area Minimum two (2) people (This price is subject to change based on the pickup point.)

Price: USD$ 150 per person (Ocho Rios) From the Ocho Rios area Minimum two (2) people This price is subject to change based on the pickup point.

Nature Blue Hole Tour *

This is a tour to Cascade, a village on the White River in the hills about 15 minutes east of Ocho Rios. The area is beautiful and lush with lots of places to chill, picnic or even spend the entire day. There are multiple “blue holes”, deep areas for swimming, rope jumping and more. The guides will help you to climb the falls and even take a mud bath in the river cave. This tour is suitable for kids and non-swimmers.

From the Ocho Rios area USD $65 per person USD $150 per person – with weed farm tour and brunch

From Montego Bay USD $120 per person $210 per person – with weed farm tour and brunch

Minimum 2 people Includes entrance fee and smokes

Dunn's River Falls - Mystic Mountain *

420 friendly excursions from your hotel, or cruise ship for either of these attractions.

USD$80 per person

From the Ocho Rios area Smokes included

USD$115 per person From Montego Bay Smokes included

Both tours require a minimum of 2 people. The prices quoted are for each tour. Add an additional $25 per person to do both.

ATV RIDES *

ATV rides at Dirt Adventure Park , in Boscobel about 30 minutes from Ocho Rios and about 90 minutes from Montego Bay. Rides last 30-45 minutes.

USD $100 per person From Ocho Rios area

USD $170 per person From Montego Bay

Minimum 2 people Includes transportation and rides Smokes AFTER the ride

Horseback Riding *

Ride a trail through the forest and into the sea alongside guides that provide historical and cultural information about the areas you traverse.

USD$80 per person From the Ocho Rios area

USD$130 per person From Montego Bay area

Minimum 2 people Includes transportation and cost for the rides Smokes AFTER your ride

Bob Marley Mausoleum *

Visit the birthplace, and final resting place of reggae icon and Jamaican most favorite son, Bob Marley in the small hillside village of Nine Miles.

USD $150 per person from Ocho Rios area USD $230 per person from Montego Bay Includes entrance fee and smokes

USD $200 per person from Ocho Rios area USD $250 per person from Montego Bay Bob Marley Mausoleum plus ganja farm tour Includes all entrance fees, smokes, and brunch.

Minimum 2 people for both tours

Tour a Negril Weed Plantation *

Turner taxis and tours.

This tour of the Desrine Weed Farm in Negril is for just about anybody – from serious weedsters to the merely canna curious. You’ll get a tour of the plantation along with a solid education about Jamaica’s world renown native ganja strains. The tour usually lasts between 1 and two hours but there’s never any rush; the pace is entirely up to you and your group. Just make sure to wear comfortable shoes!

Your ganja plantation tour includes:

• A complimentary rolled joint that may be the fattest you’ll ever see
• The purchase of up to 2 ounces of ganja at the farm’s dispensary
• Ganja tea (a Jamaican favorite) – if requested in advance

The drive time depends on your pickup point, but the plantation is about 30 minutes from Negril. Along the way, we’ll point out notable sites, make whatever stops you require and even pull over for those who want to smoke. Visitors not staying locally in Negril may want to stop at places such as 7 Mile Beach or Margaritaville. Many people like to finish the tour for few Red Stripes and cliff diving at Rick’s Café; just tell your driver ahead of time and he’ll drop you off and pick you up later for an additional $10 USD.

USD $220 from Montego for 1-3 people $30 for each additional person

USD $95 from Negril for 1-3 people $20 for each additional person

These prices do NOT include the entrance fee to the farm

Marijuana Sunset Cruise *

Ladyboss glass bottom boat.

This cruise to Rick’s Café delivers unlimited fun and a very relaxed vibe with unlimited spliff, edibles, gummies and Jamaican rum punch plus snorkeling at Pirates Cave.

Duration: About 2-3 hours. USD $150 per person

Booby Cay Island Picnic *

Picnic at Booby Cay – a tiny island off the coast of Negril. This picnic includes a lobster lunch as well as unlimited Red Strip, spliffs and edibles.

Duration: 90-120 minutes USD $180 per person

Jamaica Ganja Tours *

Jamaica ganja tours.

The tour includes:

• Hotel pick up and drop off in the Negril area
• A free joint for everyone
• Tour the entire grow operation – germinating, transplanting, harvesting, curing, trimming, etc.
• Learn about Jamaican strains
• Smoke the steam chalice

Price: $150 for a single person $80 per person for couples $70 per person for groups of 3 or more

These prices are for pickups in Negril. Transportation from outside of Negril may attract an additional charge based on the distance

Luxury Ganja Yacht Charter *

Barrett adventure tours.

Enhance your Jamaica vacation experience with a few hours on a luxury yacht with a few of your best buds. You may just want to sunbathe on deck with a spliff and Red Strip but some of your friends may want to swim, snorkel or even fish. To each, his own.

About the Wind Horse

The Wind Horse is a modern, well-equipped, 42 ft. Catalina that has sailed down theUS east coast from Boston to Key West and from Tampa, Florida to Montego Bay, Jamaica. She is comfortable and dependable in all conditions.

Available from anywhere in Jamaica

The Wind Horse can be booked from just about anywhere in Jamaica with booking fees that also includes roundtrip transportation from your hotel or cruise ship.

A ganja friendly vessel

Arrangements can be made for guests to acquire ganja with sufficient advance notice. Smoking is allowed on deck and in the cockpit.

Full Day Sail (8 hours)

• $1150 for 1-3 persons
• $230 for each additional person up to 5 people
• $207 each for 6 or more
• Maximum 20 people

Half Day Sail (4 hours)

• $690 for 1-3 persons
• $173 per each additional person up to 5 people
• $161 per person for 6 or more

Multi Day Charters

• $1725 per day or $9200 per week
• Plus provisioning
• For up to 4 people

* Overnight and multi day charters include snorkeling, pickup and drop off as well transportation to any land tours you want to do along the way.

* Provisioning means you’ll be taken to a supermarket before boarding so that you can purchase food for breakfast, lunch and snacks, The charter will provide drinks and dinner at a local restaurant near where the boat is moored for the night

* Payments are not refundable if tour bookings are cancelled with less than 24 hours notice.

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Prospect Plantation is a working Jamaican agricultural property where you can see bananas, cassava, sugarcane, coffee, allspice, and many other crops. As your tractor-drawn Jitney travels through Prospect your guide will delight you with stories of the colorful history of the estate. It combines the opportunity to enjoy an educational, relaxing, and enjoyable trip to one of Jamaica’s oldest plantations.

You will see the magnificent White River Gorge. A spectacular view. Jamaica’s first hydro-electric power station was built here by Sir Harold Mitchell.

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Yaaman Adventure Park in Jamaica

Yaaman Adventure Park was known as Prospect Plantation in the 18th century, and since then, it has been full of historical and cultural landscapes. Come to this fantastic Adventure Park in Jamaica to live great experiences with nature and all the activities that Yaaman offers you.

Increase your adrenaline with a Buggy or ATV's tour in Jamaica and learn about gastronomy with the Jamaican cooking tour, thus getting to know all the typical flavors of the region.

Activities in Yaaman

Mud Buggies or ATVs

Our number 1 tour includes driving either our exhilarating 2-seater mud buggies or 1-seater ATVs off the road.

Secret Blue Hole

The awesomeness of our secrete and the magnificence of our aviary a experience an unforgettable one!

Swim with Dolphins

More than 700,000 guests have lived The Experience of a Lifetime with us.

Cooking Tour

Get ready to prepare your own 'Jaica Flare' that you'll enjoy while marveling at the Caribbean Sea.

Jitnet Ride

Ride a tractor drawn open-air carriage and explore a 1,000 acre property, where you will see allspice

Bird Aviary

Wander though the spectacular Bird Aviary where exotic and local fly overhead. This tropical paradise.

This exhilarating journey will take you soaring through heights unimaginable!

Adventure in Jamaica

Another experience that will fill you with emotion will be getting up close to a very intelligent and unique marine mammal from the world of the ocean, such as swimming with dolphins in Jamaica Ocho Rios.

Experience the adrenaline rush at Yaaman Adventure Park in Jamaica!

Are you ready to live a Jamaica Jitney Ride Tour or meet a lot of lovely birds in the Yaaman Bird Aviary? Enjoy this and more experiences here!

Our Experiences

Yaaman Buggy or ATV'S

Give yourself the opportunity to take an exciting ride on our buggies or ATVs and prepare to be enchanted by our aviary!

Price from: $ 119 USD $ 83.3 USD

Yaaman Cooking Tour

Do you want to taste delicious food? Yaa man! Prepare to become your own chef and to take a wondrous ride in our jitney!

Price from: $ 79 USD $ 55.3 USD

Yaaman Secret Blue Hole

The awesomeness of our Secret Blue Hole will surely make your experience an unforgettable one!

Price from: $ 49 USD $ 34.3 USD

Fly High Zipline

Enjoy this zipline tour in Jamaica with a view of the magnificent Caribbean Sea

Price from: $ 59.5 USD $ 53.55 USD

Our Packages

Yaaman /Dolphin Encounter

Live the experience of a lifetime and get inside the water with lovely dolphins, the full Yaaman Adventure Park activities.

Price from: $ 149 USD $ 134.1 USD

Yaaman Full Hundred

This -all in one - Yaaman Adventure package includes all the activities found inside the park, don't you miss anything!

Price from: $ 169 USD $ 118.3 USD

Yaaman Rough Rider

Get that feeling of excitement by riding our buggies or ATVs, and prepare to be surprised!

Price from: $ 139 USD $ 97.3 USD

Yaaman Nyan & Splash

Man driving an ATV in Jamaica and couple throwing a dive into the Secret Blue Hole Rough Rider package

Price from: $ 99 USD $ 69.3 USD

How to get Yaaman

Park Hours & Schedules:

Mon to Fri 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM Sat to Sun 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Plantation Tour

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A . View and select by clicking on  the excursion of your choice B . Complete our Reservation Request Form and submit for availability C . Make only a small deposit online and pay the balance when you arrive. It’s that simple!

After you have made your deposit we will send you a confirmation voucher.

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Blue Mountain Coffee Tour

This tour takes you to Blue Mountain the highest point in Jamaica 7,402 ft and home to the famous Blue Mountain coffee where you will receive a 45 minutes historic trail hike followed by a bean and cup experience. An old trail, between two historic coffee properties: Wallenford Coffee Works–now Heritage Garden of Cold Spring–and Clifton Mount Coffee Estate. The trail gently follows the contours of the mountain, gradually ascending 1000 feet, and is a lovely 1-hour nature walk. Clifton Mount is one of the finest Blue Mountain Coffee Estates in Jamaica and the largest exporter of Jamaica Blue Mountain Coffee by a privately owned company. Hear the Clifton Mount story and walk the farm, which also grows flowers commercially.

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Falmouth Jamaica

Cruise port schedule, live map, terminals, news.

Region Bahamas - Caribbean - Bermuda

Local Time 2024-08-25 20:34

Port Falmouth Jamaica cruise ship schedule shows timetable calendars of all arrival and departure dates by month. The port's schedule lists all ships (in links) with cruises going to or leaving from Falmouth Jamaica. To see the full itineraries (ports of call dates and arrival / departure times) and their lowest rates – just follow the corresponding ship-link.

Falmouth is a major port town located on Jamaica Island's northern coast - approx 18 mi (29 km) east of Montego Bay , and approx 60 mi (97 km) west of Ocho Rios . The close proximity to these large cities explains the many tours offered from Falmouth.

The port's location and ability to accommodate post-Panamax (largest) cruise vessels makes it often a turnaround (departure port) and regular year-round (port of call) destination on Caribbean itineraries leaving roundtrip from Florida USA.

Currently, the port handles around 1 million cruise tourists per year. Projections (based on planned annual growth) are their number to reach 1,5 million by the year 2021, with USD 180 million economic impact from passenger/crew spending in Falmouth. Jamaica's growth program was based on an increased number of port calls - from 1-2 per week to 4 days weekly. Following the new cruise ship pier's opening, the average spending per passenger was increased from USD 90 up to 120. Jamaica's ministry of tourism committed around USD 1,4 billion for major development projects to transform the town by 2018.

The town was founded in 1769 and named after Sir William Trelawny's birthplace ( Falmouth, Cornwall England ). The port town flourished as a market center when Jamaica became the world's leading sugar producer. It is also noted for being one of the best-preserved historic towns in the Caribbean.

During the late 18th and early 19th centuries, Falmouth was one of Jamaica's busiest ports. It was a wealthy town with a rich racial mix but its economy was based on slavery. Within the parish, nearly 100 plantations were actively manufacturing rum and sugar for export to Britain. Jamaica had become the leading sugar producer in the world. Starting in 1840, the fortunes of Falmouth as a commercial center declined after the emancipation of slaves in the British Empire.

Places of interest include Albert George Shopping and Historical Centre (1895-built), St Peter's Anglican Church (1795-built), the former residence of slave owner John Tharp, Martha Brae Rafters' Village (where tourists can take a river ride on 30-ft bamboo rafts), Greenwood Great House (Caribbean's best antique museum), Burwood Beach.

In October 2017, PAJ (Port Authority of Jamaica) announced its plans to dredge the port in order to extend its cruise ship pier. The dredging project will give the port capacity to berth even the world's largest cruise ships (two of the RCI's Oasis-class / 225,000 GT) simultaneously.

Falmouth Jamaica cruise terminal

Officially named "Historic Falmouth Cruise Port" (abbrev HFCP), the cruise terminal was inaugurated in March 2011. The port's redevelopment project included the construction of a themed retail shopping complex alongside the docking pier. The pier has 2 berths with length and depth allowing even the world's largest cruise ships to be berthed here.

Historic Falmouth Cruise Port is the world's first-ever cruise port with themed passenger terminal complex featuring a large commercial centre.. The Falmouth port covers all international and US Homeland standards for security.

The cruise ship terminal is open on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays, between 9 am and 5 pm. The cruise pier construction project was funded with USD 220 million as a joint venture by RCCL (Royal Caribbean) and Jamaica Port Authority. Over 700,000 cruise ship passengers visit Falmouth Jamaica annually.

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‘Jamaica to the world’

A small town on a small island celebrates kamala harris’ meteoric rise.

By Fredreka Schouten, Zoë Todd, Curt Merrill and Byron Manley, CNN

Published August 17, 2024

BROWN’S TOWN, Jamaica — Three and a half years ago, Sherman Harris gathered together a clutch of family and friends at his home on a hilltop here in rural Jamaica to watch his cousin step into history.

As Kamala Harris took the oath of office as vice president of the United States, the room erupted in screams and tears, he recalled.

“Even talking to you now, I feel some sort of tears from my eyes too, you know,” Sherman Harris, 59, said in an interview with CNN. “It's like tears of joy.”

Next week, they will gather again before his widescreen television to watch Harris make history once more, when she formally accepts the Democratic presidential nomination — becoming the first Black woman, the first Jamaican American and the first Asian American to become a major party’s White House standard-bearer.

Although the milestone will be celebrated by her relatives in this town of some 12,000 people on the island’s northern coast, Harris’ Caribbean roots still are coming into focus for the millions of Americans getting acquainted with her after she was suddenly thrust to the top of the Democratic ticket a month ago when President Joe Biden ended his reelection bid and endorsed his vice president.

Already, her Republican rival, Donald Trump, has sought to question her Black identity as the two vie for support among African American voters in states such as Michigan and Georgia who could determine the outcome of this fall’s race. At a gathering of Black journalists last month, Trump falsely claimed that Harris had only recently opted to identify as Black out of political opportunism.

“I don’t know, is she Indian or is she Black?” Trump asked in widely derided comments.

Harris is both. She’s the daughter of an Indian-born mother, Shyamala Gopalan, a breast cancer researcher who died in 2009, and a Jamaican-born father, Donald Harris, an 85-year-old retired Stanford University economist, who has largely remained in the background of his daughter’s public life.

He hails from a family that stretches back for generations in Brown’s Town, a market town in St. Ann Parish, where vendors clustered along the main drag on a recent Sunday morning to sell glossy green avocados, yams and bundles of fragrant thyme.

It's a place Kamala Harris knows from childhood visits and readily claims.

“Half of my family is from St. Ann Parish in Jamaica,” she told the country’s prime minister, Andrew Holness, during a 2022 visit to the White House. “I know I share that history with millions of Americans.”

And it’s a town that proudly claims her.

“You have to recognize individuals who come from humble abodes and really excel,” said Michael Belnavis, the mayor of St. Ann Parish who is mulling ways to honor Harris should she prevail in November. “Coming from Brown’s Town is as humble as it gets.”

Deep roots and a powerful matriarch

The town was named after Hamilton Brown, a slave owner who came to the island from Ireland and, according to family lore, is believed to have been an ancestor of Kamala Harris’ great-grandmother, Christiana Brown, also a descendant of enslaved Jamaicans.

“Miss Chrishy,” as Christiana Brown was known, helped raise her grandson, Donald Harris, who described her in an essay first published in 2018 in the Jamaica Global Online as “reserved and stern in look, firm with ‘the strap’ but capable of the most endearing and genuine acts of love, affection, and care.”

Harris has said his interest in economics and politics was sparked, in part, by observing Miss Chrishy as she went about her daily routine of operating her dry goods store in Brown’s Town.

Although she died in 1951, Miss Chrishy looms large to this day among her descendants, who still talk of her elegant dresses, proper manners and the high standards she set for her children and grandchildren.

“She was the backbone,” said Latoya Harris-Ghartey, Sherman Harris’ 43-year-old daughter. Harris-Ghartey is executive director of Jamaica’s National Education Trust, a government-aligned organization focused on developing the island’s education infrastructure.

Her great-grandmother “believed in getting your books and having a solid education, those sorts of things,” Harris-Ghartey said. “I think that has passed on throughout the line. Everybody always pushes you to be better, to excel.”

Miss Chrishy had several children with Joseph Harris, who raised cattle and grew pimento berries — allspice in its dried form — on a farm perched high above Brown’s Town. He died in 1939, a year after Donald Harris was born, and is buried on the grounds of St. Mark’s Anglican Church — a sanctuary founded by Hamilton Brown and where Harrises have long worshipped.

Brown’s Town might be a small place, but the family has occupied a prominent position there as landowners and businesspeople.

Today, Sherman Harris — Donald Harris’ first cousin — still lives on and works the Harris land, in an area known as Orange Hill for a citrus grove that once stood there, he said. One of its dominant features is the Harris Quarry, started by Sherman Harris’ late father, Newton. Sherman runs it now, and it still produces crushed limestone and bricks.

It’s one of his ventures. On a tour with CNN journalists, he proudly pointed out the three-story commercial building he owns in the heart of Brown’s Town.

It’s to this landscape that Donald Harris would bring Kamala and her younger sister, Maya, on holidays, according to his 2018 essay — taking them through the town’s bustling marketplace, touring his primary school and other landmarks he found meaningful. He recounted the trio trekking through the cow pastures and overgrown paths on Orange Hill during one memorable visit in 1970, as they retraced his boyhood ramblings over the family property.

“Upon reaching the top of a little hill that opened much of that terrain to our full view, Kamala, ever the adventurous and assertive one, suddenly broke from the pack, leaving behind Maya the more cautious one, and took off like a gazelle in Serengeti, leaping over rocks and shrubs and fallen branches, in utter joy and unleashed curiosity, to explore that same enticing terrain,” he wrote. “I couldn’t help thinking there and then: What a moment of exciting rediscovery being handed over from one generation to another!”

Sherman Harris remembers all the cousins playing together during those jaunts to Jamaica in the 1970s, while the adults feasted and socialized. He and Kamala are the same age, born just days apart in October 1964.

What stands out most from those memories, he said, is how smart the girls were – just like their dad, who rose from a rural boyhood to earn a doctorate from the University of California, Berkeley and become the first Black economics professor granted tenure at Stanford .

“Brilliant girls,” Sherman Harris said of Kamala and Maya. Even as young children, they would quiz him on the island’s current affairs, and “I wasn’t able to answer them,” he recalled. “I had to ask Daddy.”

Sherman Harris views his cousin’s ascension as yet another example of “Jamaica to the world,” a reference to the island’s culture, reggae music and food catching fire across the globe. It’s also a sign to him of the Harris drive.

“We have never ventured in much failure, you know,” he said of the Harris clan, adding that the family members are “always successful in whatever we do.”

Out of the spotlight

Even as his daughter climbs to new heights, Donald Harris has remained largely out of the spotlight.

He and Shyamala Gopalan, who met in the 1960s as graduate students at Berkeley, fell in love fighting for civil rights, Kamala Harris wrote of her parents in her 2019 memoir, “The Truths We Hold: An American Journey.” But by the time she was 5, “they had stopped being kind to one another” and soon separated.

They divorced a few years later, and Gopalan became the parent who had the greatest influence in shaping her daughters’ lives, raising them, Kamala Harris wrote, to be “confident, proud black women” in a country that would see them, first and foremost, as African American. Kamala Harris would go on to attend one of the country’s most storied Historically Black Colleges and Universities, Howard University in Washington, DC, and pledge as an Alpha Kappa Alpha while there, joining the nation’s oldest Black sorority.

In her book, Harris “goes on for page after page about her mom,” said veteran California political reporter Dan Morain, who wrote a 2021 biography, “Kamala’s Way: An American Life,” that charted the Democrat’s rise through Golden State and national politics. “She’s really important in her life, and I believe her mother is still with her on a daily basis,” years after her death, he said.

“But she passes over her father,” Morain said.

Harris wrote that her father “remained a part of our lives” after the divorce, spending time with them on weekends and in the summer.

The senior Harris complained that his relationship with his daughters was subject to “arbitrary limits” after a contentious custody fight. The state of California, he wrote bitterly in the essay, operated on the “false assumption … that fathers cannot handle parenting (especially in the case of this father, ‘a neegroe from da eyelans’ was the Yankee stereotype, who might just end up eating his children for breakfast!)”

“Nevertheless, I persisted, never giving up on my love for my children or reneging on my responsibilities as their father,” he added.

Donald Harris did not respond to several interview requests from CNN and largely has shied away from publicity — even as his daughter stands on the cusp of another history-making milestone in his adopted country.

He did emerge publicly during Harris’ 2020 bid for the Democratic presidential nomination to publicly chastise her for joking that of course she had smoked marijuana , given her Jamaican background.

In a since-deleted statement posted on Jamaica Global Online, Donald Harris said his ancestors were “turning in their grave” to see their “family’s name, reputation and proud Jamaican identity” connected with a “fraudulent stereotype of a pot-smoking joy seeker.”

Damien King, a retired economics professor at the University of the West Indies in Jamaica who now runs a think tank on the island, first met the elder Harris in the mid-1980s and said he was not surprised by the public rebuke. “He is somebody who has always been unafraid to speak his mind,” King said.

And among the economists who know him, Harris is considered a free thinker, willing to challenge his field’s “orthodoxy,” King added.

Former Harris student Steven Fazzari, an economist who teaches at Washington University in St. Louis, described his former professor as someone who thinks “deeply about economic theory.”

“He’s not the kind of economist who’s going to talk to you about what the GDP is going to be and what inflation is going to be in the next quarter,” he said.

Harris, who served at Fazzari’s doctoral thesis adviser at Stanford, encouraged originality and was a friendly and supportive figure to his students, Fazzari added.

Fazzari had not seen Harris for years, until he and several other former students arranged a dinner with him last fall in Washington, where Harris maintains a residence.

“It was wonderful,” he said of the dinner. “Don Harris in his mid-80s is just like the Don Harris I knew at Stanford. He was articulate. He was gracious. He remembered all of us. He remembered all of our dissertation topics.”

‘That’s my cousin running’

Kamala Harris’ ancestry has already been thrust into the center of the presidential campaign, as Trump grapples with how to confront her last-minute candidacy and reaches for a strategy to blunt her momentum.

During a combative interview at the National Association of Black Journalists’ convention late last month, Trump went personal — falsely claiming that Harris had opted to “turn Black.” He later inexplicably called her “Kamabla” in series of posts on his Truth Social site.

Trump’s running mate, Ohio Sen. JD Vance, meanwhile, has questioned her authenticity — calling her a “phony” who “grew up in Canada,” a reference to the years she spent living in Montreal, where her mother had taken a teaching position at McGill University.

The mischaracterization of Harris’ racial identity “plays into these tropes of the tragic mulatto who’s doomed and sneaky and deceptive” and belongs nowhere, said Danielle Casarez Lemi, who studies race and ethnic politics as a Tower Center fellow at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. She’s also the co-author, alongside Nadia Brown, of “Sister Style: The Politics of Appearance for Black Women Political Elites.”

“It’s a way to try to damage her credibility anyway that he can,” she said of Trump. “Whether it’s going to work, who knows?”

Dahlia Walker-Huntington, a Jamaican American lawyer and longtime Harris supporter, called Trump’s comments challenging the vice president’s racial identity “condescending.”

“It is also ignorant to think that we can only have one identity” in a society that is increasingly multiracial and multicultural, said Walker-Huntington, who divides her time between South Florida and Kingston. “The America of 2024 is the America that Kamala Harris represents.”

Walker-Huntington said she has followed Harris’ career for years, going back to her time as a local prosecutor and California attorney general. She first met Harris at a Florida fundraiser in 2018 for Florida Sen. Bill Nelson’s campaign and would go on to become an enthusiastic backer of Harris’ short-lived presidential bid.

Now, along with other Caribbean American supporters, Walker-Huntington is activating networks of friends, relatives and acquaintances in the hopes of getting Harris over the top this time.

“I support her because she’s a strong woman, and she stands up for her convictions,” Walker-Huntington said. “The fact that she’s Jamaican, that’s icing on the cake. It makes me feel like that’s my cousin running for the presidency of the United States.”

CNN has reached out to the Harris campaign.

Those who know her say she celebrates her ties to the island to this day. On the eve of her swearing-in as vice president, Harris told The Washington Post that her father instilled in her and her sister a deep pride in Jamaica and its history. Walker-Huntington and Winston Barnes — an elected official in Miramar, Florida, who also hails from Jamaica — said she was quick to banter with a group of them in a Jamaican accent when they first met her at the Nelson event a few years ago.

The vice president’s cousin, Sherman Harris, said he has not seen her for years, but Donald Harris still visits with the family.

Jamaica has formally recognized Donald Harris, bestowing on him an Order of Merit in 2021 for “outstanding contribution to National Development.” Over the years, he has served as an economic adviser to the Jamaican government and helped craft a 2012 strategy to encourage economic growth on the island.

Back in Brown’s Town, there’s been talk of adding Kamala Harris’ visage to the mural of prominent Jamaicans that encircles the grounds of St. Mark’s, her cousin said. It currently includes figures such as sprinter Usain Bolt and Black nationalist leader Marcus Garvey, who was born in the parish.

But Belnavis, the mayor of St. Ann, said he is thinking bigger — a statue, perhaps, in or near a municipal building if Harris wins the US presidency.

“The murals that you see on the walls eventually will wear away and so on,” he said. “We want something more permanent.”