Travel Guide Kingston

A sprawling capital, a cradle of reggae, a busy capital where almost all of the island's business is handled, Kingston acts as a magnet on the Jamaican of the entire island, who are experiencing an important exodus from the capital of the capital. Today, the Kingston urban community has 938 000 inhabitants, 25% of the total population of the island. The largest English-speaking city in the Caribbean, it is a hard and uncompromising city. It is a secret and complex city that does not book easily to the foreign visitor. He will have to deploy learned efforts and patience to understand the diversity of the capital. New Kingston's luxury parallels the misery of ghettos.Rarely recorded in the programme of travel agencies that sometimes - wrongly - until advise to avoid it, the capital of Jamaica, in the mythical name, has a singular charm, as well as all the unpleasant elements of a large crowded city.Of course, the capital is behind a very violent and dangerous city reputation. It must be clear, however: Kingston is a very large capital and violent crime is located in very specific neighbourhoods and areas, such as Tivoli Garden (that the tragic riots of June 2010 have transformed into a war zone for two weeks), or the slums of Trench Town and Jones Town.The north of the city is safe, guarded by many guards and security guards, now it is in New Kingston that all embassies, tourist hotels and even the Bob Marley Museum are located!Little remains of its ancient colonial past, and Downtown does not have high skyscrapers such as Port of Spain in Trinidad and Tobago. The historic quarter has kept a province in which architectural genres are encountered without great cohesion (Caribbean, African and American). It is possible to walk around the city by the day, around Parade and by King Street, to the National Gallery and the seafront. All of this, of course, calls for a minimum of prudence and common sense: Downtown is not discovered at night, and we must not venture into neighboring ghettos without being accompanied by a local inhabitant. A board, despite everything, avoids walking in the neighborhood once dark. Plan to leave a little before sunset and remember that it is not always easy, spent a certain time, to find a taxi! So caution…