{"id":66722,"date":"2012-02-26T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-26T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/truly-the-wickedest-city-in-the-world\/"},"modified":"2015-08-20T09:53:06","modified_gmt":"2015-08-20T09:53:06","slug":"truly-the-wickedest-city-in-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/truly-the-wickedest-city-in-the-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Truly the Wickedest City in the World"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Truly<\/div>\n

Port Royal<\/strong><\/p>\n

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How many places in the world can you say you walked in the same footsteps as REAL pirates of the Caribbean?\u00a0 I would love to tell you that you can indeed do this in Port Royal, Jamaica.\u00a0 However, since two thirds of the city along with all its real life treasures actually lies under the sea in present day, you may not be so lucky.
\nModern day Port Royal is a quiet, sleepy little town on an arm of land that seems as though it\u2019s separate from the rest of Jamaica.\u00a0 Once you\u2019re there it\u2019s hard to even believe the population is over 3000 as you look around and wonder where they all live.\u00a0 Driving from Jamaica\u2019s capital of Kingston to Port Royal feels as if you are right at sea level and that any wave beyond lazy would sweep over the road and carry you off.\u00a0 Once you arrive in the town it\u2019s not hard to find your way around; there\u2019s one way in and one way out.
\nFor less than $3.00usd you can time-travel back to the 1600\u2019s, when Port Royal was the center of shipping throughout the Caribbean and the only other place that rivaled it in importance was Boston, Massachusetts.\u00a0\u00a0 A place that was once inhabited by historical villains such as the infamous \u201cBlackbeard\u201d is now a salty grave at the bottom of the Caribbean Sea.\u00a0 It is estimated that 2000 people died immediately as a result of an earthquake and subsequently another 3000 perished from injuries, hurricanes and flooding that followed.
\nAll that\u2019s left in Port Royal are ruins and remnants of a battle site that conjures images of marauding pirates, looting, riches, destruction and devastation.\u00a0 The walking tour through this historical playground is intriguing to say the least, and our tour guide filled our minds with plenty of factual information while sprinkling his own bits of folklore in for good measure.\u00a0 You really get a feel for its true grit when you see the forts, canons, bunkers and the half-sunk \u201cGiddy House\u201d that are left intact.
\nIf you\u2019re an adventure\/history junkie at all you can easily find online documentaries about what happened in Port Royal centuries ago, and what real treasures went down with it.\u00a0 Fascinating is an absolute understatement.\u00a0 And you thought Jamaica was just a sun and sand vacation destination<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0 Far from the truth, unless that\u2019s all you want it to be.
\n\"trulyKristi Keller is a two-time award winning Jamaica blogger and although I like to think I’ve conquered the island it would be safer to assume\u00a0 Jamaica has conquered me. It\u2019s turned me into a full-time addict and my allegiance has slowly shifted from \u201cCanadian office worker\u201d to \u201crandom Jamaica thrill seeker.” I have been traveling to the island since 2003, writing about rare finds and local Jamaican charm since 2009, and finally in 2011 I took the plunge and attempted living there.<\/em><\/p>\n

FROM: Calgary, Alberta, Canada<\/p>\n

Blog:\u00a0 www.jamaicamyway.com<\/a><\/p>\n

Photo: Kristi keller<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Port Royal   How many places in the world can you say you walked in the same footsteps as REAL pirates of the Caribbean?\u00a0 I would love to tell you that you can indeed do this in Port Royal, Jamaica.\u00a0 However, since two thirds of the city along with all its real life treasures actually […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-66722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66722"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97172734,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66722\/revisions\/97172734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}