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“Heritage Hikes & Walks”
Heritage Hikes or Walking Tours as they are sometimes referred to, offer the very best of Jamaican holidays, the aim is to promote the natural beauty, the cultural diversity and the Heritage of Jamaica and to provide a true reflection of everything which makes Jamaica so special - the people, the humour, the hospitality, the unforgettable scenery, the history and yes - the passion, the music, the creativity - that is this island of ours in the Caribbean. Walking and Hiking Tours that are offered include:
- Mountain River Cave
- Maroon Trail
- Spice Trail
- Kingston by Land and Sea
Mountain River Cave: Hidden deep in the hills of the Parish of St. Catherine is a small cave. This remote site is unique with its drawings done some 1000 years or more ago by our ancestors, the Tainos. These petroglyphs are worth the walk down to the river and up to the cave to view both history and the cultural retention of a set of forebears that have vanished from our island home by various tragic circumstances. Included, is a visit to the Guanaboa Vale church where the National Hero Manley's family may have worshipped. A Spanish Town tour is also included. Mountain River Cave is hidden in the lime stone cliff in Macka Tree district a few miles beyond Guanaboa Vale, St. Catherine. Inside this cave are the earliest Jamaican paintings. An Indian Artist using black pigment created a group of pictographs on the flat underside of the cave's roof. The exact age is unknown, but it probably dates back to some 500-1300 years ago. Access to the cave is by a footpath about a mile long. The track to the cave requires sturdy shoes or boots with a firm grip. The track descends steeply to cross the mountain river and through agricultural crops, with birds nesting above.
| Period Offered | Year Round
| Duration
| Full Day
| Suggested Items to Carry
| Water bottle, energy bars, walking shoes
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Maroon Trail: This hike starts in the Maroon village of Hayfield. Trained local guides will lead the walk through the eastern Blue Mountains crossing from south to north through the path known as Cunha Cunha- a hiking trail used by the Maroon Indians over 300 years ago. During the hike, visitors will be exposed to the history of the trail and the Maroon characters such as Nanny and Cujoe. The hike ends at Bowden Pen, which is in the southernjost end of the Rio Grande river valley road.
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| Period Offered | Year Round | | Duration | Full Day | | Suggested Items To Carry | Water bottle, energy bars, walking shoes |
Spice Trail: The walk from the bottom of Jacks Hills to Holywell Park is a route that crossed from the Liguanea plains to the North Coast through Hardware gap. Those bringing spices from St. Ann, St. Mary and Portland to the growing population of Kingston would have used the route. Holywell (the shortened version of its name by Jamaicans) is ideal for birders. All of Jamaica’s 30 endemic birds are found in the park, a spectacular part of a total of 256 indigenous species of birds. They include Jamaica’s national bird, the streamer-tail hummingbird locally called the doctor bird because its long, narrow black-feathered tail resembles a 19th-century coattail worn by doctors. There are also ring-tail pigeons, black billed, red billed and yellow billed streamer tail parrots, Jamaican woodpeckers, Jamaican todies and solitaries, and many more. Cameras and binoculars are musts!
Operational Highlights
Period Offered
| Year Round
| | Duration | Full Day | | Suggested Items To Carry | Water bottle, energy bars, walking shoes |
Kingston By Land and Sea: Drive along the Palisadoes to Port Royal. There is a walking tour of this historic settlement, its remaining Fort Charles with the quarterdeck named for Admiral Horatio Nelson, Morgan’s wall, the Victoria and Albert battery and gun emplacement, the giddy house and then the beaches once used to careen ships for repair. From there by canoe, the tour goes across the mouth of Kingston Harbour to Green Bay and Port Henderson.
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Period Offered
| Year Round
| Duration
| Full Day | Suggested Items To Carry
| Water bottle, energy bars, walking shoes |
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COST
Name of Tour
| Per Pax Cost - Group of 20
| | Mountain River Cave | US$55.00 per person | Maroon Trail
| US$60.00 per person | | Spice Trail | US$51.00 per person | Kingston Harbour By Land & Sea
| US$68.00 per person |
The tour cost includes: Tour Guide, Transportation, Refreshment, lunch and entrance fee to tour sites.
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