The Blue Mountain Journey: PART 3 of 3

A magical footage by a Peace Corps Adventure team, featuring Jamaica's world famous Blue Mountains. With misty peaks and lush green slopes, the Blue Mountains stand in eastern Jamaica and date back thousands of years and are watered by the heaviest rainfall in Jamaica, plus their forests are home to hummingbirds, butterflies, over 500 flowering plants, 65 species of orchid and some interesting trees called Chusquea abietifolia which flowers, simultaneously, only once every 33 years.

The next bloom is 2017. Don’t go anywhere before then
But beyond the birds and the bees and the flowering trees, the Blue Mountains produce the world's finest coffee: The Blue Mountain Coffee. Hmm, breathtakingly delicious!

Blue Mountain Coffee was introduced to the island in 1728 by the then English Governor, who brought seedlings from Martinique. And what do you know, these hills still supply the Queen of England with her preferred brew through mail order. The Japanese can't get enough of the most expensive coffee in the world. Over 90 percent of the crop is exported to them, and some of the plantations are Japanese-owned. But there is still more than enough to go around in Jamaica and it doesn't cost an arm and a leg.

Make sure to go biking in the Blue Mountains whenever you come to Jamaica!

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