JAKES TO STRAWBERRY HILL
The complete trip via Junction to Mandeville, Old Harbour, Kingston and up to Strawberry hill takes 2 1/2 hours. It is useful to remember rush-hours, so enjoy this drive from mid-morning to early afternoon in order to avoid the traffic in Old Harbour and Kingston. From Jakes one ascends into fertile farmlands leading up to Spur Tree hill in Mandeville 15 miles away:
Lover's Leap, from Junction 10 miles from Jakes
From Mandeville to Old harbour one drives through mountainous districts; many of these communities have retained their identities from early days:
1825 Methodist Church, built from Limestone
Fruit vendors in Porus
As soon as one reaches Old Harbour, the landscape changes dramatically to vast expanses of canefields surrounded by cottonwood and mangoe tree avenues:
Old Harbour Clocktower
Sugar Cane truck and Canefield at Innswood farm, Old harbour road
The ingenuity of the Jamaican people is to be found all along the route. From vendors selling fruits, honey and Lignum vitae wood carvings to original architecture:
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