Arrived in Haiti / Port-au-Prince / Petionville in September 2004, will stay here for several years with one of the UN agencies.
Here the view of the terrasse of the Hotel Oloffson.
It is a very nice...
We arrived in Labadee, Haiti via The Celebrity Silhouette. Labadee is on the Northern Coast of Haiti. This area is a private resort that Royal Caribbean leases from the Haitian government. I found out...
Update: Jan. 11, 2011 . . . Despite only 5% of the rubble being removed from the capitol, Port-au-Prince, the Iron Market has been rebuilt. Denis O’Brien, the billionaire who owns the Irish company......
I have been twice in Port of Prince/Haiti - and both times it had been the X-mas-day, Dec.24th. 1979 and 1980.
It was a strange feeling to have christmas without snow and it seemed to be even more......
In school they taught us that these where the names that the inhabitants gave to the island before Christopher Columbus and the Spaniards came and renamed it Hispañola.