Our last two nights in Drapers didn't turn out too nice, bad service made it the most expensive and worst place we've stayed for the past four weeks. It's an "our pick" in the Lonely Planet, but don't go to Drapers San. It should be easy to find both a cheaper and nicer place, as the area is crawling with guest houses.
Contacted a guest house in Treasure Beach which we found on the internet, turned out the owner was driving a guest on friday (the day we wanted to leave) to Manchoneal, just an hour from Drapers. Perfect for us! Even though the owner of our guest house told us there was a storm hitting Treasure Beach, so it could be dangerous, we decided to leave as planned. Happy we did! In a contrast to Drapers where it has been rain and thunder every day, we haven't seen a single drop of rain here. Or any storm. Portland (the county of Drapers) is the wettest and greenest on the island, while this is the driest and has more cactuses than mangrove trees. So don't go to Portland in the rainy season!
As for our guest house here, Nuestra Casa, it's just absolutely lovely. Big and airy, nice people and great service, spacious and clean rooms, DVDs and books, free wi-fi, the perfect roof top terrace to sun bath or watch the stars, and close to the sea and the beach Billys Bay, one of five making up the village of Treasure Beach.
The first day went buy just enjoying the place and the atmosphere. Yesterday we stayed the entire day at the YS falls, a beautiful and incredibly well maintained place. The valley has been owned by an irish family since the 1880's. Today they have 35 employees working with tourists (in the falls), and another 35 working on the farm where they breed cattle and race horses. We took a canopy tour, sliding down above the falls. Nice! Then jumped with a rope into the falls, and bathed in them before going down to an artificial pool they have made by the river. Just a fantastic day! And we were lucky with the weather, normally at this time of the year it rains daily. We had sun all day.
Today I will repeat the day before yesterday, just taking in the atmosphere here before we leave tomorrow for Negril. Which is more of a touristy place, naturally you might say, because of their Seven mile beach.
-- Posted from my iPod
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Er de ikke det er det en viss fare for at de forsvinner.