Jacmel – Beaches, Markets & a Zombie Hotel
I've been travelling Haiti and Jacmel was my second stop.
The town is regularly cited as the most popular in Haiti and has lots of fine old houses with a distinct New Orleans flavour, even if many of them are crumbling. Right by the town square the Hotel Manoir Alexandra is unfortunately not open for business because it’s the fictional home of Hadriana Siloe, Jacmel’s best known inhabitant. The beautiful Hadriana died at the altar on her wedding day, but wait, this is Haiti, home of voodoo, so is she really dead? Oh no, she’s been turned into a zombie. England may have its haunted houses, but Haiti has a zombie hotel. It's against the law in Haiti to turn somebody into a zombie.
Jacmel’s zombie hotel.
click here for more on Jacmel
And here for more on Port-au-Prince, my first Haiti stop
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