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The Blue Mountains in Jamaica are famed for their coffee plantations - producing some of the best and most expensive coffee in the world - as well as the 7000 ft Blue Mountain Peak. Cuba can be seen from its slopes on a fine day. In the days of slavery some of the first independent, emancipated communities were founded in these mountains by runaway slaves.
Read about Blue Mountain Coffee.
Written by 
James Dunford Wood.
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