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Haiti
Photo: U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class David Danals, Public domain via Wikimedia Commons
Northern Haiti lies along the Atlantic side of the country and includes the northern peninsula. It is the area most visited by tourists, due to its relative safety and the presence of Labadee, a popular cruise ship excursion site.
Cap-Haitien International Airport is the primary way of getting in, unless you're on a Royal Caribbean cruise bound for Labadee, in which case you'll arrive by cruise ship.
Read in the guideThere isn't much public transportation in Haiti (understandably) so your primary way of getting around will be by car.
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the country's second largest city.
a border town near some interesting ruins and the Dominican border.
a small town right by two of the country's most famous landmarks: the Sans-Souci Palace and the Citadelle Laferrière.
Haiti's principal source of tourist dollar, surprisingly, is one lone (beautiful) private beach, off limits to Haitians, and owned by a busy cruise liner, dropping off hundreds of daytrippers every day.
an island just waiting to become a major tourist destination is as of yet still entirely undeveloped, with limited electricity, no police force, no infrastructure upkeep, as well as beautiful rocky views, one incredibly beautiful and isolated beach, centuries of pirate history, and a good number of mountaintop mansions belonging to various drug lords.
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Travel tipsChristopher Columbus (Italian: Cristoforo Colombo; Spanish: Cristóbal Colón) made four voyages from Spain to the Caribbean from 1492 to 1503.
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Travel tipsLasting from the 1500s to the 1800s, the Atlantic slave trade was a crime against humanity of extraordinary proportions, leaving a huge mark on four continents and irreversibly changing world history and geopolitics.
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InspirationSome hotels have a heritage from the golden age of steam railways and ocean liners, before the Second World War, in the 19th or early 20th centuries. These hotels were where the rich and the famous of the day would stay.
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