Together with two friends, I went on a one week cruise on Freedom of the Seas, currently the largest cruise ship in the world.
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The cruise ship stopped at Royal Caribbean's private beach resort, Labadee, in a fenced off area in Haiti. I also ventured into Cap-Haïtien, the second largest city the country.
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The second stop for Freedom of the Seas, was San Juan, Puerto Rico.
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The ship also stopped at the world's smallest island that is divided between two countries.
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I stayed a few days in Kingston, the capital of Jamaica, and one of the murder capitals of the world.
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I was 4 days in Cuba's capital, Havana. Once a beautiful city, decades of communism and embargo have left much of it looking like a war zone.
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My last stop on this Caribbean vacation was the capital of the Dominican Republic, Santo Domingo. This city was one of the first European settlements in the New World.
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