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Time difference
with New-York 0, GMT -5.
220 Volts in Port-Morgan (110 Volts elsewhere in the country).
A tropical climate tempered by the trade winds: a hot and sultry season (about 30°C - 86°F)
From August to October and a dry and cooler season (about 26°C - 79°F) from November to April. Water temperature: 26 to 28°C - 79° to 83°F.
Average hygrometry: 60%. Average rainfall is 50% less than that of the neighbouring islands.
Lightweight clothing is recommended (natural fibres: linnen, cotton…) and also something warmer for higher ground (on the main island) or for nights during the dry season.
Daily weather forecast 
and the satellite photo.
French and Creole are the official languages of the country although Creole remains the most spoken language in Haiti.
The official currency is the Gourde although Haitian Dollars are generally used for counting. However, Haitian Dollar coins and bank notes do not exist!
1$ (Haitian dollar) = 5 Gdes
Banks are open from 9am to 1pm from Monday to Friday.
American Dollars are recommended. Other currency cannot be exchanged in all banks.
You can either pay by cheque or by credit card in Port Morgan. We also offer you the possibility of exchanging your foreign currency
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A passport is compulsory but a visa is not necessary.
The Embassy of Haiti in Paris : 10 rue Ribot, 75017 Paris. Phone : 01 47 63 47 78
By plane
The airport of Port au Prince, 13km from the town centre.
Airport taxes: 30 US $.
Direct flight (12h) with Air France from Roissy airport
Flight with stopover in Miami, mainly with American airlines.
Interior flight to Les cayes (45mn) or by road (4h).
And transfer from Les Cayes to Port Morgan by boat (1h).
VHF canal 16 or 9
From Beata Island (southern point of the Dominican Republic), it is 148 nautical miles.
Allow about 30 hours with a tail wind using either a spinnaker or Genoa jib with western trade winds.
Entering Ferret bay and access to Port Morgan
Circumnavigate L’Île à Vache from the south, then sail along the western coast then north until you reach 18°06’63”N / 73°41’78”W.
Change course to 175° and enter the very sheltered bay on the port side.
Anchor in 4 to 5 metres of water or moor.
US nautic maps
DMA 26210 (general, from the south of the Dominican Republic to the east of Haiti)
DMA 26203 (map of L’Île à Vache + map of Cayes)
in town
Taxis
Taps-Taps (taxi cars, colourful minibuses)
between towns
4x4 rental
Buses (old American school buses)
Taps-Taps (taxi cars, colourful minibuses)
No cars are allowed (for the preservation of the area)
You can travel on foot, on horseback or by boat
Independance Day
Carnival
Flag Day
Assumption
Fête Dessalines
Fête Vertières
Discovery Day
Christmas
racine music
paintings
wood painting
kompa
wrought iron
lace
carnival meringue
wood caerving
embroidery
(3 MB) ou 
Post card of Antoine from the film "Iles... était une fois les Grandes Antilles"
deep-fried speciality that can be eaten either warm or cold as a starter with cress and seved with haitian puch.
coconut-based dessert
Barbancourt rhum, Crémas, Bois d'Ebène, Mmmh, Le Brasier, Mabi, ...
or gombominuscule long and pointed fruit-vegetable, filled with white seeds which produces a sticky liquid when wet.
pineapple, figs (name given to bananas), coconut, corrosol, chadèque, guava, mango, papaya, p’tite malice, ...
rice with mushrooms which grow on the bark of trees.
served during cocktails
crabs, shripms, crayfish, rock lobsters, ...
grilled pork, spiced with chilli and bitter orange juice.
spiced shellfish (conch), rubbed with papaya leaves then cooked
paille de fer, ti malice, ...
or soupe grassesoup made with srarchy fruit, resembling a melon.
The preparation of tassos comes from Indians and buccaneers who used to dry their meat in the sun for days. You can get meat and poultry tassos.
Dany Laferrière
Dominique Bona (Prix Renaudo 1998)
Graham Greene
Dany Laferrière
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