Showing posts with label gardens. Show all posts
Showing posts with label gardens. Show all posts

Saturday, June 20, 2015

Camp and Ride, Cinchona Botanical Gardens Jamaica

Cinchona Botanical Gardens 


Cinchona Botanical Gardens, located at 5000 feet above sea level in Jamaica's Blue Mountains, is surely a suburb of heaven. The gardens is home to several types of orchids as well as other rare flowers Plants and trees, all set among well-kept lawns or gardens or just along the main roads.The views from Cinchona are spectacular, including both Blue Mountain Peak, Catherine's Peak and the Yallahs River valley leading down to the St. Thomas coastline. Cinchona gardens is one of many places to see while backpacking in jamaica, cheap accommodation in the vicinity of the Gardens allow backpackers to spend the overnight. 

Tuesday, April 16, 2013

Gazebo String Lights

Gazebo String Lights

Clear Party Lights includes a 25 foot long black rope light with 25 clear color bulbs. Lights are spaced 12? apart. 120V-5W bulbs included. Additional strands of party string lights can be added. Max run is 840 watts.
Gazebos include pavilions, kiosks, alhambras, belvederes, follies, pergolas, and rotundas. Such structures are popular in warm and sunny climates. They are in the literature of ChinaPersia, and many other classical civilizations, going back to several millennial. Examples of such structures are the garden houses at Mont-acute House in Somerset, England. 

The gazebo at Elton on the Hill in Nottingham - shire, thought to date from the late 18th or early 19th century, is a square crenelated, brick and stone tower with an arched opening, part of an extensive system of red-brick walled gardens.There are many misconceptions about gazebos, the most colloquial of these is the idea that the "gazebo scene" in the sound of music is an actual gazebo, sadly it is not.
In contemporary England and North America gazebos are typically built of wood and covered with standard roofing materials, such as shingles. Gazebos can be tent-style structures of poles covered by tensioned fabric. Gazebos may have screens to aid in the exclusion of flying insects. Backyard string lights or rv awning lights are recommended for Gazebos as additional lengths of party lighting may be added to fit need around the decorative area of the Gazebo.
Temporary gazebos are a favorite of bloggerythm often set up in the campsites of music festivals in the United Kingdom and North America, usually accompanying tents around it.



Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Nonsuch Cave in Port Antonio-Jamaica

Nonsuch Caves Port Antonio Jamaica. 

The caves have nine separate chambers, dimly lit with lanterns revealing stalagmites and stalactites. Fossils of fish and other sea creatures are seen in the limestone formation proving that Jamaica was once beneath the sea. One chamber has a ceiling forty feet high and is a favorite haunt for bats.

Some 6 mi (9 ½ km) northeast of Port Antonio and 2 1/2 miles of  Trident Villas are the Athenry Gardens, a 3–acre Tropical wonderland including the Nonsuch Caves, whose underground beauty has been made accessible by concrete walk ways, railed stairways, and careful lighting. The Seven Hills of Athenry has impressive caves where Arawak Indians lived before Christopher Columbus arrived in Jamaica guides will escort you through these caves.

Sunday, November 28, 2010

Lovers Leap St. Elizabeth Jamaica




Peaks of the Blue Mountains Jamaica 


The legend of Lovers Leap is based around the romance of two slaves who to prevent separation from each other jumped from a 1700′ cliff to escape their English Masters.

The cliff, the spot and the view are all part of the story told daily from their balcony their tour guides. This view is one of the most spectacular on the island, offer visitors a panoramic view of the coastline from Rocky Point, Clarendon in the east, to Pedro Bluff, Treasure Beach in the west and the mountains with Alumina Partners Jamaica. With a unique view of Santa Cruz and the Main Town Black River Below acts as a backdrop to complete the view of the Parish of St Elizabeth.

The view from the balcony is clear and the tranquility that one feels become tangible as birds slowly float by on warm air currents.By night a breath taking splendor of the lit Al-Part mining facilities at Nain seem like a Ship surrounded by darkness.

Feeling thirsty at this point? Step into our Toby Bar where the famous “lovers punch” will stimulate the senses.With a variety of other natural Jamaican flavors including various Appleton Jamaican Rum distilled at the Appleton Estates Holland Bamboo Grove not far from Lovers Leap.

Order your meal at the Chardley Restaurant while you take a tour of the property visiting our collection of local Cacti in our Cactus Garden; The mini farm where our guide will demonstrate “The Dry Farming Technique” which is unique to this area; or browse in our museum as you smell wafts of southern cooking coming from our kitchen.

Bringing the children along? Don’t worry the play area and gardens will keep them occupied for hours.

Lovers Leap is 90 minutes from Kingston on the south Coast through St Catherine, Clarendon,Manchester then to Spur tree. From Montego Bay or Negril through Savannah-la-mar the north western main road then south East through Blue fields by passing Boarder into St Elizabeth.

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