My trip to the Caribbean, South Africa and Australia!

Day 1

I took the 07.30 flight directly from Oslo to the city Montego Bay in Jamaica. Jamaica is an island nation of the Greater Antilles. The Caribbean got four very large islands that are called the Greater Antilles. These islands are Jamaica, Cuba, Puerto Rico and Hispaniola. After a thirty hour-trip, we finally landed in Montego Bay. The first thing that stroked me when I came out of the plane was 26 degrees and a powerful sun. I knew before I traveled that the degrees here stays at 20-30 the whole year around and it could sometimes be a bit windy and it could rain. Because of my short stay (two days), I quickly took a cab to my hotel. If you even could call it a hotel, more like a hostel. As a backpacker I don’t complain. After all my research of Montego Bay I already knew that Montego Bay was the tourism capital in Jamaica and that they had about hundred thousands people living there. But I was ready to explore. 

 

 

I had heard about the Jungle River Tubing in Montego Bay were your tube guide tells you about the Caribbean and Jamaica. And he did. He told me bout the Caribs, an American Indian ethnic group who lived around this area and gave this islands the name The Caribbean. Spanish, British, French and Dutch colonists settled down in these islands. Slaves from Africa came to the islands to work and Indian people came to serve. This turned out to that the people in the Caribbean are very mixed by race. Because of the colonists, English, Spanish, French and Dutch are the official languages on the islands that used to belong to the colonial powers. But he said that most people spoke “patois” or “Creole”, which is a mix between European language and African language. I told him to say; “What are you doing?” so I could hear the differences. It sounded like this: “we a ju do?”

 

 

After a long ride with the Jungle River Tube, I was ready to go to a restaurant and eat. I was starving. I asked the cabdriver to take me to a nice and cool restaurant were I could get some really tasty food. He immediately drove me to a place called the Houseboat grill in the calm waters of Montego Bay. Here they offered me Jamaica’s national dish, Ackee and saltfish (the lower plate).  After the meal I directly took cab to my hostel to get some sleep after a long day.