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Two Sister's Cave

Flag of Jamaica  , Saint Catherine,
Saturday, April 3, 2010

My girlfriends Kimberly, Ghenet and myself visited one of Jamaica's hidden natural heritage sites, Two Sisters Cave  nestled in Hellshire Hills,St. Catherine, Jamaica. It is located two miles from the popular Fort. Clarence Beach which is the most idillyic and breathtaking beach closest to the Kingston and St Andrew .On our way to Two Sisters, I noticed the clear skies and the azure waves that crashed into the cliffs. It was a beautiful sight. We were greeted by friendly employees who were quick to take a picture of us at the entrance marked " Two Sisters Caves." Shortly afterwards we began our descent to Two Sisters Caves and we were dressed up like coal miners with a hair net and hard hat on top of our heads.


The tour guide told us that Two Sisters Caves used to be enclosed but some of it was destroyed in an earthquake in the 17th century
Information board on Cave
Information board on Cave
. The Caves used to be  a site used by  the native Arawak people of Jamaica who are also known as Tainos. They have etched sketchings on the caves which reflect the customs and the traditions of their people. The cave contains a petroglyph carved of a face which is estimated to be about seven hundred years old. The caves contain no evidence of being homes to the Tainos based on the fact that the Tainos drew effigies of themselves of their gods as a sign of respect for their gods. Rather the caves were used for ceremonial purposes.


Legend has it that late one night, two slave sisters, their names forgotten with time, made a daring escape from a sugar plantation and headed for the hills. After days of running through the bushes and climbing some rather rocky mountains, the siblings ended up in Hellshire. There, they discovered the two ancient caves which, though a few feet away from each other, are linked by a single stream. The sisters, injured and frail after days of running barefoot across rocks and bushes, settled in the caves. Several days passed with the sisters unable to leave the caves, even as they knew that the men their slave master had sent in search of them were hot on their trail.

Eventually, early one morning the sisters heard the shouts of their approaching hunters and knew that they were about to be discovered. But instead of accepting that they would have to return to a life of servitude, the sisters decided that they would make the ultimate sacrifice. The story is that the sisters held hands and jumped into the black waters of the caves to their ultimate demise.

But like any good story, the tale of the sisters doesn't end there. Since the drowning incident, many persons claim that the spirits of the sisters still roam the caves, especially at night.
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shantol spaulding on

im loving this attraction most of all i loooooooooooooooooove portmoreit srlf nice surrounding to chill

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