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The Hip Strip and Beyond: Discovering the True Jamaica

Reopened in June, Jamaica became one of the first Caribbean destinations to welcome visitors again.
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The Hip Strip and Beyond: Discovering the True Jamaica
Blue and John Crow Mountains. Courtesy of Jamaica Tourism Board
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Once, this was Jamaica’s most storied stretch of beach. Nicknamed the “Hip Strip,” Katharine Hepburn (accompanied by playwright and director Noel Coward) once tooled along this stretch of Gloucester Avenue in Montego Bay in a Singer convertible—one that she shipped to the island herself.

John F. Kennedy and other luminaries vacationed here. The adjacent Doctor’s Cave Beach was perhaps the first on the island to attract tourists, all the way back in the 1920s.

Tim Johnson
Tim Johnson
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Toronto-based writer Tim Johnson is always traveling in search of the next great story. Having visited 140 countries across all seven continents, he’s tracked lions on foot in Botswana, dug for dinosaur bones in Mongolia, and walked among a half-million penguins on South Georgia Island. He contributes to some of North America’s largest publications, including CNN Travel, Bloomberg, and The Globe and Mail.
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