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New Cockpit Country Jamaica Website Launched

Cockpit Country tour guides
Cockpit Country tour guides

Check out this new Cockpit Country website produced by the Cockpit Country Local Forest Management Committee, a community run organization dedicated to the welfare of Jamaica’s Cockpit Country.  The Cockpit Country is one of the most biologically diverse areas on earth and home to hundreds of endemic species of flora and fauna.

Website: cockpitcountryjamaica.com

The website features an extensive list of things to do including visiting the Cockpit Country’s many attractions, trails, caves, great houses, and tours.

Also, see information about Flagstaff’s newest tour: Flagstaff Heritage Tour and Trails launched October 09.

Cockpit Country butterfly
Cockpit Country butterfly

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Caves in Cockpit Country
Caves in Cockpit Country
Maroon cemetery under a Calabash Tree
Maroon cemetery under a Calabash Tree
Maroon burial grounds, Accompong
Maroon burial grounds, Accompong
Hand made drums for sale in Accompong
Hand made drums for sale in Accompong
Gift shop in Accompong
Gift shop in Accompong
Cockpit Country Artisans
Cockpit Country Artisans

Visitor Centre in Flagstaff
Visitor Centre in Flagstaff
Flagstaff Heritage Tour and Trails
Flagstaff Heritage Tour and Trails
Shaw Castle Drummers
Shaw Castle Drummers
Craft for sale in Flagstaff
Craft for sale in Flagstaff

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8 Comments

  1. Sonya
    March 6, 2011 at 10:43 am — Reply

    Wonderful to see that it had finally been made.

    This is my history! my grandmother and mothers birth town.

    Accompong Town! can finally be seen by all on the internet!

  2. steve gruber
    April 23, 2010 at 1:12 pm — Reply

    Wonderful and refreshing to see such committment and diversity.Wishing you all the best into posterity.

  3. April 2, 2010 at 6:59 pm — Reply

    Truly a national treasure which must be preserved.

  4. April 2, 2010 at 5:08 pm — Reply

    Great images, will be visiting that area soon !!

    • Lloyd Stewart
      March 7, 2015 at 10:14 pm — Reply

      I am descended for the reids, my Great Grandmother was Esta Reid, and she had a daughter Gertrude Reid, they left at some point and eventually came to live in Kingston where my mother Hermine was born.

    • Lloyd Stewart
      March 7, 2015 at 10:17 pm — Reply

      I am descended for the reids, my Great Grandmother was Esta Reid, and she had a daughter Gertrude Reid, they left at some point and eventually came to live in Kingston where my mother Hermine was born, I also learnt some interesting things of our heritage when we did a Family origin DNA test a few years ago.

  5. nic
    March 31, 2010 at 11:02 am — Reply

    i am so visiting this place when mi touch yard again. Jah know. Keep up the good work Yardedge.

  6. March 30, 2010 at 10:00 pm — Reply

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