![]() ![]() Two hours later, everyone should be hungry so we top off the trip by visiting the grounds and garden of the colonial Estate of Devon House. We then head to the Hope Botanical Gardens, the Chinese Garden and the Bob Marley Museum. After downtown, which should take approximately an hour and a half, we head uptown along a route that will introduce you to our military base, libraries, play theaters, National Stadium, wealthy residences (Beverly Hills) and the largest University in the Caribbean, which was once a sugar plantation and rum factory. The first destination is a drive around downtown Kingston, where you will see historical architecture, market places, old train stations, seat of government, Courts, Main Street, major business areas, Memorials of National Heroes and major churches… and that’s for starters. Immediately upon leaving the hotel your tour guide will start providing information and history of the area and its landmarks. We will meet you in the lobby and provide a five minute summary of the tour, answer any questions and board the transport. You will be picked up at your hotel in Kingston. Finally, forty five minutes later, you will get dropped off at your hotel and escorted into the lobby where the hotel will be informed that you have arrived back “Safe and Sound”. After, we load up in our transport and start heading back down the mountain, making an optional stop for something to eat at one of the local spots, which normally takes less than an hour. Our time here normally takes up to two hours. From the park you can see the western side of Kingston completing its panoramic view. Once finished, we load up once more and drive for another fifteen minutes to the UNESCO National Park grounds, our destination for hiking, bird watching and being one with nature. ![]() This is the ideal spot to take pictures and more pictures. There you will see the southern most views of Kingston, Regimental insignia’s of Colonial times, the tallest point on the Western side of the Blue Mountains and an old seventeenth century canon. A short stop of five minutes and we continue driving up for a half hour more going above three thousand five hundred feet where we will stop at the old British barracks and parade ground in New Castle, St. Ten minutes later, we continue our journey, passing through “Irish Town”, a small village area that was and is still used today by wealthy Kingstonians to get away from the Kingston heat, and work our way up to our second look out spot with magnificent views of the lush green valleys and peaks of the Blue Mountains. It’s a must for pictures and we will be happy to take some for you of you. Twenty minutes later as you are traveling through the mountains, we will reach our first stop at a look out point where you will see the eastern side of the city and be informed on it’s various landmarks, areas and history. Immediately upon leaving the hotel your tour guide will start providing information on the areas you are passing through. ![]()
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