Visit Green Grotto Caves in Ocho Rios Holidays

Ocho Rios is popular tourist attraction of Jamaica. This city offer different natural and man made tourists spots. If you are planning holidays to Ocho Rios visit Green Grotto Caves for natural experience on this fascinating island.
Like other popular caves of the Jamaica such as the Runaway Bay Caves, Discovery Bay Caves, Cave Hall Caves, Hopewell Caves, Dry Harbour Caves, Dairy Caves and Rum Caves are considered as most outstanding natural attractions. They are of worldwide reputation and have been bearing in mind visitors since the 18th century. The Green Grotto Caves is also a popular tourist attraction to include in Ocho Rios holidays packages. This cave is located in 25.9 hectares of the island's wonderful North Coast. The Caves are situated between the resort centres of Montego Bay and Ocho Rios and are exactly 4 km from Runaway Bay to the east and 3.2 km from Discovery Bay to the west.

The central feature of this natural charisma is the huge labyrinthine limestone cave with its stalactites, its abundant rock formations, profusion of overhead ceiling pockets and stalagmites. If you are planning holidays to Ocho Rios you can see these interesting caves. While spending time in beautiful Jamaican Island you can identify the great and rich history of different people lived on this island.

Green Grotto is around 1,525 meters long and 12 meters deep and is featured by plentiful chambers and light holes. A subterranean lake known as the Grotto Lake covers its bowels. Tourists who are looking for cheap Ocho Rios Holidays can also visit this natural attraction of Jamaica. The Arawak Indians (Tainos) and the first Jamaicans found shelter in the caves previously. Proof of this is noticeable in the complex fragments of pottery and adzes that are exposed from time to time. During the period of occupation by the English, the caves were utilized as a hideaway for the Spaniards who were being determined out of the country.

These famous caves can also be recognized with that time between the two world wars where they were employed by smugglers escaping arms to Cuba. In the later years during the II World War, the access of the cave was used by the Government of Jamaica as a storeroom for rum in barrels. If you are looking for cheap holidays in Ocho Rios you can see this place which speaks different phases of history. In the 1960's these Caves fell into the ownerships of the Kirkner family unit. Nowadays, they have possession of by the Urban Development Corporation and managed by the St Ann Development Company. Green Grotto Caves is being urbanized to comprise a reserve and nature park.