Reggae music is at the core of Jamaican culture. The Bob Marley Museum in Kingston is a must-visit to check out the life and times of the great reggae icon, Bob Marley.
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Jamaica's national fruit, the ackee is commonly used as the main ingredient in the island's traditional food dish, ackee and saltfish. This pear-shaped produce features a mild, nutty taste, which is why it is commonly curried over rice or cooked with tomatoes, onions, and codfish.
Christopher Columbus, who first sighted the island in 1494, called it Santiago, but the original indigenous name of Jamaica, or Xaymaca, has persisted.
Although the Taino referred to the island as Xaymaca, the Spanish gradually changed the name to Jamaica. In the so-called Admiral's map of 1507 the island was labeled as Jamaiqua and in Peter Martyr's work Decades of 1511, he referred to it as both Jamaica and Jamica.