The Honey Bar

The tour includes a visit to the Honey Bar, where the tradition of beekeeping has been refined over generations to a sweet art; taste honey in the comb and learn the secrets that are abuzz in the hive.

THE MAROONS OF JAMAICA

The Windward Maroons live today through their offspring who hold high the Banner of Maroonage “freedom or death”. The Buff Bay Valley, home to the Charles Town Maroons was the 18^th Century theatre for the drama of resistance and survival. Their victory against British colonialism and plantation slavery allowed for the retention to a large degree of this knowledge of resistance and survival.

Survival - In those times resistance was synonymous with survival … and many of the tools of survival are today still in use throughout the valley. These include the art of living from the land, of ancestral worship and the use of drumming rituals to invoke their intervention; the use of herbs for health and healing, for malice and for warfare. Come share with the communities of the corridor these traditions of survival; visit the Asafu Yard “the ceremonial ground of the Maroons”, the Maroon Museum and the nearby Herb Museum and Garden.

Tour Codes	Abbrev.	Tour Name:	COST PER PERSON (US$) BY GROUP SIZE
Tour Codes	Abbrev.	Tour Name:	1	2	3	4-8	9-16	17 & over
130	MR	Maroonage	220	140	120	100	90	80

MAROONAGE

One Day Sightseeing Tour of the Buff Bay Valley

	Duration: 8 Hour Heritage Tour (Incld. a 4 hour return drive)
	Lunch: Included
	Transportation: (Jeep/Mini-bus)
	Degree of difficulty: 5.0/10
	Departure: 8:00 am and return 5:30 pm (Same day)

Attractions

	Tour of the Maroon Museum & Ceremonial Grounds
	Tour of Herb Museum and Garden - Traditional Herbs
	Lunch at the Nyam Jam Restaurant & Travel Halt
	Sightseeing Drive into the Heritage Corridor of the Blue Mountains
	Visit Fish Dunn Falls (swimming optional)

MAROONAGE 2

One Day hiking adventure tour with the Maroons of the Buff Bay Valley

	Duration: 12 Hour Heritage & Hiking Tour (Incld. a 4 hour return drive)
	Lunch: Included
	Transportation: (Jeep/Mini-bus)
	Degree of difficulty: 6.5/10
	Departure: 7:30 am and return 7:30 pm (Same day)

Attractions

	Tour of the Maroon Museum &
	Maroon Drumming & Dance Presentation - Ceremonial Grounds
	Hiking adventure to the Ruins of the 18C Coffee Plantation (4 hour return)
	Lunch at the Nyam Jam Restaurant & Travel Halt - (swimming in the Buff Bay River before lunch optional)

Tour Codes	Abbrev.	Tour Name:	COST PER PERSON (US$) BY GROUP SIZE
Tour Codes	Abbrev.	Tour Name:	1	2	3	4-8	9-16	17 & over
130A	MR2	Maroonage 2	N/A	140	130	`120	100	80

Surveyed in 1739 the Orangevale Coffee Factory and Great House ruins stand today unequalled in grandeur among such structures within the Caribbean; a testimony to the fact that while sugar was king on the plains, in the hills of the Blue Mountains, it was coffee that reigned supreme.

Hiking to the Orangevale Ruins Inside the 18c Ruins - Orangevale