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ARRIVING BY AIR
Regular airlines from the United States and Canada into Kingston's Norman Manley International Airport include Air Jamaica, Spirit Airlines, JetBlue Airways, Air Canada, American, Delta, and US Airways.
Virgin Atlantic and British Airways offer service from London to Montego Bay and Kingston.
At one time an important port town for export of the area's annatto crop, from whence it got its name, Annotto Bay is today bustling only by the busy taxi stand in the center of town. Otherwise, sleepy is a good description.
January
Accompong Maroon Festival: (Jan. 5 and 6), Accompong, St. Elizabeth Rebel Salute: (second Sat. in Jan.), Port Kaiser Sports Park, St. Elizabeth Bacchanal J'ouvert: (launch second Fri. in Jan., each subsequent Fri. till Easter), Mas Camp, KingstonThe Rock Tower (8 Pechon St. at Tower St., 876/922 9229, 876/509-0480, or Fidel Sutherland at 876/377-1381, melinda@rocktower.org, www.rocktower.org, 9 a.m.–5 p.m.
The weekends around Emancipation Day (August 1, 1838) and Independence Day (August 6, 1962) are filled with parties in Negril as Absolute Temptation Isle (www.atiweekend.com) and competing event Appleton Treasure Island (contact Appleton's Kingston office, tel.
Manchester is Jamaica's sixth-largest parish, much of its land located at relatively high altitudes with three mountain ranges: the May Day Mountains, the Don Figuerero Mountains, and the Carpenters Mountains, where the highest peak in the parish stands at 844 meters.
Negril has become Jamaica's foremost beach town, evolving over the past decade along with the changing nature of the tourists who come to bask in the sun and adopt the island's pace.
Check out this amazing literary festival set against the beautiful backdrop of Treasure Beach, St. Elizabeth.
