making friends with locals, you might be lucky and get invited to a kind of a dance party in the middle of nowhere. boom blasters surround you with mega-watts of ragga (a dance-hall version of raggae where people take turns improvising over a microphone to raggae dance beats), and the fridge offers LOADS of bottles of ice cold red stripe beer.

the road on the picture on the right is called bamboo avenue. this archway of towering bamboo shades the highway and was planted by settlers from holland.
as you can see, the highway is not very frequented. indeed, it was a busy day, when I took this picture!

usually the only living things that crowd (and I really mean "crowd") jamaica's highways are goats.
they are EVERYWHERE - as soon as you open your car door, a curious head peeks in, if you go to the trunk to fetch cool drinks, a goat watches you and even if you are getting rid of your cool drink, again you are accompanied by a goat...
these animals can be a real nuisance!!
oh, and the only dead things that are found on, respectively besides, jamaica's roads are cows. mostly they are run over by reckless (and intoxicated) jamaican drivers.

there is not too much surf on jamaica's coasts, but the water is so hot and the sand so smooth that it is fun to stay in the water as long as possible without getting sunburned ;-)
mind, this is the tropics, so be careful!
as a relief for sunburn (if, like I, you really got sunburned), take aloe vera, a white liquid which you can milk out of palm trees (or buy in bottles in the supermarket...).

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