Haiti | Destination overview
Ah, Haiti, where vaudou drums echo from the jungle during moonlit nights. Here is one of the most exotic destinations on earth. In Haiti, just about everybody is involved in the creative arts. The best of its painters sell their works for hundreds of thousands of dollars. Of late, tourists have by-passed Haiti because of its political instability. Haiti was once the New World's richest place and the crown jewel of the French overseas empire. Today, poverty is everywhere in evidence. For the experienced traveller only.
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Moulin Sur Mer - Moulin Sur Mer is located 77 km North West of Haiti's
International airport in Port-au-Prince. Its 51 acre beach front
property is niched in the La Gonave Bay, well protected from strong
hurricane winds and marine currents from the Atlantic Ocean and the
Golf of Mexico.
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Set in a colonial style architecture,
Wahoo Bay Beach Club & Resort - Only 45 minutes from the outskirts of Port-au-Prince,
WAHOO BAY is pleasantly nestled between the majestic "Matheux"
mountains in the background and engulfing "La Gonave Bay" at your
feet. Spread-out on a unique seaside bluff, overlooking its
finest sandy-white beach and soothing crystalline tropical
Coconut Villa Hotel - This little Haitian oasis hotel with its large air
conditioned rooms is located in the Village Lamothe, near the town
center of Delmas, the Industrial Park and just two miles from the
International Airport. The hotel is within walking distance to bars,
restaurants, banks and shopping centers.
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All about Haiti
Haiti has had its share of ups and downs. Just over 200 years ago Saint Domingue, the French colonial name for what became Haiti, was the Western Hemisphere's richest colony. At the dawn of the 19th century, Emperor Napoleon I sent his troops to put dow ... continue