Kingston
Its reputation preceding it like a police siren, Kingston deters most visitors.
Its reputation preceding it like a police siren, Kingston deters most visitors.
Deriving their name from the azure haze that settles lazily around their peaks, this 45km-long mountain range looms high above the eastern parishes of St Andrew, St Thomas, Portland and St Mary.
A sprawling residential suburb, Portmore stretches across the plains west of Kingston.
The capital of Clarendon parish, 58km west of Kingston midway between Spanish Town and Mandeville, is a teeming market and agricultural town.
The ramshackle village of Hagley Gap sits abreast a hill east of Mavis Bank and is the gateway to the Blue Mountain Peak.
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