Jamaica: the two sides of Negril
Negril, a busy corner of Jamaica, is the perfect place to get away from it all. A paradox? James Henderson explains.
Jamaica: the two sides of Negril
By James Henderson
It seems counter-intuitive, when writing about the resort with one of Jamaica’s best beaches, not to recommend actually staying on the beach. Surely that’s what the Caribbean is for? And Negril, which lies at the far western tip of the island, has a superb beach – five miles of supreme sunset-facing sand that shelves gently into a calm, jade-coloured and reef-protected sea.
Oddly though, the beach is just one side of the story in Negril. The other is “the cliffs” of the West End, a farther five miles of coastline, this time meandering limestone, former reef now uplifted and poised above the sea. The rock is a study in chaos at every level – inlets and outcrops, promontories (ideal as sunning platforms), flying buttresses and caves. At the micro level it is scarred like Palaeolithic cake mix.
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