28876: Morse (comment) Tourism and Culture (fwd)

[Bob Corbett <corbetre@webster.edu>]

oloffsonram@aol.com

Spent last weekend in the provinces. It's unbelievably peaceful out there. 
Started in Cavaillon which is a lovely little town on the main road, just 
before you reach Les Cayes. There was a festival there celebrating their river. 
The main church in Cavaillion is Notre Dame de Perpetual Secours. It was a four 
day festival with activities during the day and bands at night. We played on 
Sunday, the last of the four days. It rained and rained but the crowd stayed 
anyway. Along with RAM were Azor, Boukman Experience and a new Haitian reggae 
singer named Belo.

One of the residents of Cavaillion came up to me the next morning and explained 
that Cavaillion is special because the people there don't have complexes. They 
don't mind going to university or school in the morning and then working in the 
gardens later on....

The next day we headed to Port Salut. If you like beautiful sandy beaches and 
seafood prepared by fishermen, then Port Salut is for you. We caught the tail 
end of their celebration for St Dominique. We walked up to a spring (Tet Souce) 
in the mountains where people often go to pray. I reiterate that once you leave 
Port-au-Prince, it's nothing but tranquility.

Perhaps the best way to consider potential economic development is to first 
identify places that are socially stable and work from there. Create 
infrastructure and save Port-au-Prince for last.

The worst part of the journey was the road between Ti Guave and Miragoane. 
Awful. The road between Les Cayes and Port Salut has been recently paved and 
this has greatly shortened traveling time.

My Voila/Comcel telephone doesn't work in most of these provincial towns. 
Digicel seems to have done a much better job of creating a network that permits 
communication in the provinces.

Richard Morse
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