Best time to visit in Jamaica

The weather is beautiful year-round but high season is December to April.

Places to visit in Jamaica

• Sunset from the 11 km stretch of beach bars and fun at Long bay on Negril.

• The museum dedicated to Bob Marley – having heard his music the world over, now see his home and studio while learning about his life.

• The red (sand), white (surf-perfect breaks) and blue (waters) at Long bay.

• Port Royal, the collapsing former pirate capital of the Caribbean.

• Rocklands, where thousands of buzzing hummingbirds delight in nectar-rich flowers.

Top things to do in Jamaica

• Climb 2256m Blue Mountain Peak, which rises from lush, dense forest preserves.

• Not caress a crocodile in the swampy, remote and ominously named Black River Great Morass.Balance on limestone

• ledges at Dunn’s river falls, which cascade down to a beach.

• Get jammin’ to the trademark beat of Jamaica, reggae

• Dive in the marine parks on Montego Bay and Negril.

Discover Jamaica

• Read Jean Rhys’ Wide Sargasso Sea, a tale of post-emancipation Jamaica, Herbert de Lisser’s classic White Witch of Rose Hall.

• Listen to Bob Marley in his homeland and forget the clichés.

• Watch the original James Bond, Dr. No, which shows a sultry, colonial Jamaica in the early 1960s.

• Eat jerk (meat smothered in tongue-searing marinade, and barbecued in an outdoor pit).

• Drink the famous Blue Mountain coffee, or the region’s greatest variety of rums, including mind-numbing ‘overproof’.

Jamaica Highlights

Reggae, reefers and rum, Bob Marley, Rastafarianism, Kingston, palm-fringed beaches, anything-goes couples resorts.

One word for Jamaica Tourism

Evert’ingcool, mon? (A common greeting much like ‘how are you?’).