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Anansi

To understand Jamaican folklore, rhythm and soul, try the Jamaican stories about Anansi, the spider-man. Anansi is a trickster figure in West African folk culture, whose stores were transported by colonial era slaves to the Caribbean. Anansi is a spider, but he is also a person. When you read the stories about Anansi and
other animal characters, you will

other animal characters, you will probably find it hard to say just "who" or "what" theyare. Anansi is a true animal person, a spider-man. As a tickster, Anansi often outwits his opponents - but sometimes the trickster himself gets tricked. (You win some, you lose some!). In fact, Anansi is not very nice - you can admire his wisdom, but he can also be wicked and cruel. Anansi would really like to get something for nothing: and sometimes he manages to do just that. But other times his lazy habits and greediness leads him into really big troubles. Anansi is at one and the same time a creator and destroyer, giver and taker, one who dupes others and who is always duped himself. He wills nothing consciously. At all times he behaves as he does due to impulses over which he has no control. He knows neither good nor evil, yet he is responsible for both. He possesses no values, moral or social, he is at the mercy of his passions and appetites. He dances insanely to the rhythm of reggae, the national music of Jamaica. You land at 'Norman Manley airport in the capital, Kingston on a long strip of sand called the "Palisadoes,” twenty kilometers from the city center. Jamaica is located in the middle of the Caribbean Sea. After Haiti, Jamaica is the most African of the islands in the Caribbean. It is an Island with endless white beaches, mountains, rivers and waterfalls overlooking the lush tropical vegetation, breathtaking sunsets, a sky so blue that it may hurt your eyes, endless music, and legendary stories of pirates and colonial era sugar plantation slaves. You are on the island of the three R’s: Rasta, Reggae, and Rum. The Island was home to most famous Rastaman, Bob Marley, who made the world aware of the "Reggae", the music of protest born in the tough ghettos of Kingston and fueled by Jamaican "Rum"and Ganja.  
No other country supposedly has a higher consumption of cannabis than Jamaica. Myth or reality?

 
Jamaica
 

TERRITORY

Jamaica: orchidea
 

700 miles south from Miami, 90 south from Cuba, Jamaica is by size the third island of the Antilles. Blue mountains divide it in two parts: in the south is Kingston, the capital, that is one of the most violent cities of the world, while on the north side are Negril, Montego bay, Ocho Rios and Port Antonio. Down from the mountains flow 120 rivers. There are also mineral springs with therapeutic properties. In Jamaica grow more than 3000 plants and 200 different orchids.

 

CLIMATE

Weather is tropical, hot and humid. Temperatures vary between 26 and 32 ° c.
It rains more in summer, particularly in august and september: the hurricanes season.
The sea temperature ranges from 24 to 30°c.

 
Jamaica
 
Form of government: constitutional monarchy
Capital: Kingston
Area: 10.991 kmq.
Population: 2.758.124
Languages: English and Creole patois
Currency: Jamaican dollar (  (JMD). 1 JMD=0,012 euro
Time Zone: - 5 GMT - UTC
Documents: passport
Entry Fee: 30 us dollar
International Dialing Code: 001 876
Health: : Most health facilities are inadequate even in the tourist
areas, both in hygienic and professional point of view.
Electricity: 110/220 volts. American flat plugs, type A,B. (See image)
Do not miss:

The Rose hall's Great house in Montego Bay

  Negril Beach and a stop at Rick cafe' at sunset
  In Port Antonio rafting on Rio Grande and the Frenchman's
  Dunn River falls at Ocho Rios
 
 
 
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