Where pirates used to roam Tracking down Jamaica’s rich pirate history
July 14th, 2011
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If “yo-ho-ho and a bottle of rum” is your cup of tea, there are numerous tourist sites connected with pirates and piracy in Jamaica. Pirates played a formative part in the island’s history, and you can walk in their footsteps, if you know where to look. Across Kingston harbor from the modern capital, at the tip of a thin spit of land called the Palisadoes, is the old pirate capital of Port Royal, which you can reach by ferry. If you drive the 10-mile route, you pass the Norman Manley International Airport, tracking coastal cactus and mangroves, the long-rooted trees that grow straight out of the water. Read more…