| Bike riding tours are a wonderful way to explore | | | | taste and quality, and enjoy wild life sights that are |
| Jamaica. Traveling by automobile just can't provide the | | | | found nowhere else in the world outside of Jamaica. |
| same experience. You miss so much, like the scents | | | | They'll see waterfalls and have the opportunity to |
| carried by the wind - the smell of the ocean, the | | | | enjoy a refreshing swim in the cool, clear mountain |
| tropical forests, the mountains, and the abundant | | | | water. You'll want to remember to bring a swimsuit, |
| flowers and other plants. The slower pace allows you | | | | towel and camera. |
| to really see what you're looking, to talk to local people, | | | | Manfred's Jamaican Mountain Bike Tours, located in |
| and to really savor the experience of Jamaica. | | | | Saint Elizabeth Parish, Jamaica, offers a wonderful |
| Blue Mountain Bicycle Tours, Ltd., located at 121 Main | | | | one-week get away tour. Participants enjoy quality |
| Street, in Ocho Rios, is one of the most well known | | | | lodging and excellent local cuisine on a 500 acre |
| providers of these sorts of adventures. Their specialty | | | | farming estate in Apple Valley. Each day features a |
| is a day long bike tour that begins 5,600 feet up in the | | | | bicycle tour to a different part of Jamaica, revealing |
| Blue Mountains, which are the highest mountains in the | | | | parts of the country far beyond the usual tourist |
| Caribbean. Blue Mountain Bicycle Tours, Ltd., makes | | | | destinations. This experience of the real Jamaica - |
| these tours available out of both Ocho Rios and | | | | beyond the glitter and glitz of the tourism industries - is |
| Kingston, Jamaica, providing charter bus service from | | | | simply unparalleled. |
| these points to the mountain for groups as large as | | | | In Negril, Rusty's Xcellent Adventures offers a variety |
| 150, with the average group being made up of about | | | | guided bicycle tours at different skill levels. Biking |
| 40 people. All necessary biking equipment is also | | | | equipment and, if necessary, biking instructors, are |
| provided, as are meals, and rates are reasonable -- | | | | available. For those who prefer independent |
| $93US for adults and $65US for children under 12 | | | | exploration, there are numerous places throughout |
| years of age. | | | | Jamaica that offer bicycle rentals, as well as rentals of |
| The bicycle tour is all down hill, which makes it | | | | scooters and the like. |
| appropriate for almost all age groups - age 7 is the | | | | Bicycle tours are an excellent way to explore Jamaica. |
| youngest recommended for participation -- and means | | | | In addition to enjoying the natural Jamaica, its 'real' |
| that you'll be able to devote your most or your energy | | | | people and culture, you'll be doing so in away that has |
| to enjoying the magnificent scenery. And, magnificent it | | | | less of a negative environmental impact. Bicycle tours |
| is! Bikers pass through stunning mountain vistas that | | | | allow you to slow down and to savor your |
| include the remarkable coffee plantations that produce | | | | surroundings, collecting memories - and perhaps even |
| the Blue Mountain coffee beans that are becoming | | | | a newfound cultural awareness and understanding -- |
| well known to coffee connoisseurs for their superior | | | | that will last a lifetime. |