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MONTEGO BAY -
JAMAICA Montego Bay is a city in
Jamaica.
Montego Bay contains Jamaica's largest airport, Sangster International
Airport.
Montego Bay is known for its duty free shopping and cruise line terminal at
its Free Port on a beautiful peninsula jutting into the bay. The bay is also
surrounded by picturesque low mountains. The whole island of Jamaica is
quite hilly, culminating on the other side of the island near Kingston in
the 6000'+ Blue Mountains, known for their coffees which many say are the
world's best.
Montego Bay is second in population to Kingston
with about 120,000 people and lies in St. James Parish on the northeast
coast of the island. Air Jamaica and several American and British airlines
runs their Caribbean hub in "MoBay" connecting the island with the US,
England, Germany, and recently Canada with flights to Toronto. The southern
U.S. cities of Houston, Atlanta, Tampa, and Miami are reached by nonstop
flights in less than three hours.
Doctors Cave Beach is a popular tourist destination in Montego Bay"Montego
Bay"'s name is believed to have originated in a corruption of the Spanish
word "manteca" (butter or lard). The island's first couple of centuries were
as a Crown Colony of Spain before Oliver Cromwell's Caribbean adventurers
drove them off to Cuba and Hispaniola and claimed it for England.
Today the city is known for its large regional hospital (Cornwall General),
port fascillities, second homes for numerous upper class Jamaicans from
Kingston as well as Americans and Europeans, fine restaurants, and shopping
opportunities. Surrounding coastland is occupied by numerous tourist resorts,
some newly built, some occupying the grounds of old Sugar Cane plantations
with some of the original buildings and millworks still standing. The most
famous of these are the "White Witch's" Rose Hall and Tryall - both of which
now sport world-class golf courses.
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