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Dance and music are woven through Jamaica's cultural heritage. Elegant, passionate and sinuous, the island music grabs your hand and whirls you into the rhythmic tide.
Traditions Jamaica, home of exotic flowers, fruit, spices, coffee and reggae, gives dramatic expression to a variety of syncretized spiritual pathways. From the poetic Rastafarians to the white-gowned followers of Lucumi and Santeria, magick and mystery embue the mountain strongholds and festive marketplaces.
Many visitors recall the spicy scented air of Jamaica. "Like a florist shop and pumpkin pie set next to a turquoise sea," wrote one 1920s tourist. Early English and French colonists filled journals with descriptions and watercolours of Jamaican flora. The island became a symbol of uninhibited pleasures, hospitality and an Eden-like tranquility.
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