Places to visit
Ocho Rios is known for its botanical gardens, waterfalls and wildlife.
To get a good look at the port visit the Shaw Park Botanical Gardens. Balanced high over Ocho Rios is this most magnificent garden, 25-acres in total with the most breathtaking views of the bay. With several acres of lawns that are terraced with a beautiful waterfall, tropical blooms, an interesting merging of shrubs, indigenous and imported trees and a rose garden the envy of any rose grower, it is not difficult to understand why tourists keep coming back.
Do not forget the Dunn's River Fallsthat makes Ocho Rios famous. It is an amazing sight, with the river cascading over large rock steps as it makes its way down to the sea. These rocky stone steps that make up the falls is about 600 feet in length from top to bottom and allows for adventurous climbing, especially on a hot day and provides a cooling shower.
There are so many places to mention, like Fern Gully where you are able to walk through a forest of hardwood trees and the lush green of a fern valley consisting of more than 600 types of ferns.
Ocho Rios gives one a sense of tranquillity. No wonder the writer Ian Fleming, who wrote the James Bond series, decided to live at Golden Eye, fairly close to Ocho Rios. Actually, several celebrities and writers have spent time in and around Ocho Rios. Now that says something for the place.
