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Columbus Foot
Immediately west of Island Village Beach is Columbus Foot, a tiny fishermen's beach with colorful pirogues (fishing boats) and nets festooning shade trees.
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Coyaba Museum
The Coyaba Museum traces Jamaica's heritage from early Arawak days to independence. There's a gift store, vegetarian restaurant, waterfall and art gallery. Coyaba is about 2km west of St John's Church (on the A3), not far from Shaw Park Gardens; follow the signs. Admission includes a 30-minute guided tour.
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Coyaba River Garden
Coyaba River Garden is a paradise with walk-ways and trails leading through lush gardens with streams, cascades and pools filled with carp, crayfish and turtles. Coyaba is an Arawak word for 'heaven' or 'paradise.'
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Dolphin Cove
Popular Dolphin Cove, adjacent to Dunn's River Falls along the A3, allows you to swim with bottlenose dolphins.
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Dunn's River Falls
Widely held to be one of the most beautiful waterfalls in the world, the famous Dunn's River Falls, on the A3, 3km west of town, are Jamaica's top-grossing tourist attraction.
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Enchanted Gardens
Enchanted Gardens is an 8-hectare Eden-like setting featuring a lush landscaped park with 14 waterfalls, huge pools, a fruit orchard and separate fern, spice, cactus and lily gardens. It also has a walk-in aviary. Guided tours are offered.
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Island Village Beach
Island Village Beach, at the west end of Main St, is a peaceful, smaller beach with lockers (around US$5 ), towels (around US$5 ) and beach chairs and umbrellas (around US$5 apiece). You can also rent snorkeling gear (around US$10 per day), kayaks (single/double around US$9 /10 per hour), wind- surfing gear ( US$40 for 30 minutes) and Hobie-cats ( US$30 for 30 minutes).
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Island Village Entertainment Park
Since its 2002 opening, Island Village Entertainment Park, at the junction of Main St and DaCosta Dr, has changed the face of Ocho Rios. The 2-hectare development, brainchild of resort and media visionary Chris Blackwell, claims to resemble a 'Jamaican coastal village.' It doesn't.
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Mahogany Beach
Mahogany Beach, 1km east of the town center, is a small and charming beach.
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Prospect Plantation
If you've been wondering why St Ann is called 'the garden parish,' you'll find your answer at this beautiful old hilltop great house and the 405-hectare working Prospect Plantation, 5km east of town. On a pleasant, educational tour you'll travel by tractor-powered jitney through scenic grounds among banana, cassava, cocoa, coconut, coffee, pineapple and pimento.
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Reggae Xplosion Museum
This impressive Reggae Xplosion Museum provides an excellent presentation of the grand lineage of Jamaican music, from ancient African drumming to the futuristic digital rhythms of dancehall. The self-billed 'interactive reggae experience' is divided into mento, ska, reggae, dancehall and other sections, including one commemorating Bob Marley.
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Shaw Park Gardens
Shaw Park Gardens is a tropical fantasia of ferns and bromeliads, palms and exotic shrubs. Spread out over 11 hectares it is centered around an 18th-century great house. Trails and wooden steps lead past waterfalls that tumble in terraces down the hillside. A viewing platform offers a bird's-eye vantage over Ocho Rios. There's a bar and restaurant. The gardens are signed from opposite the public library on the A3.
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Turtle Beach
The main beach of Ocho Rios is the long crescent of Turtle Beach , stretching east from the Turtle Towers condominiums to the Renaissance Jamaica Grande Resort. There are changing rooms, and palms for shade.
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Turtle River Park
Near Island Village on Main St, Turtle River Park is a welcome new green space in the middle of downtown and represents a positive new trend in Jamaica's approach to urban development. The lushly gardened park with manicured lawns also provides a zone free from the hustle of the main drag.
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