Haiti Virtual Tourist

Take a virtual tour of Haiti from the comfort of your home from anywhere in the world. Let Haiti Virtual Tourist take you on a virtual flight to Haiti where you can discover as much as you want about the Haitian people, our culture, food, history, tourist attractions and more without actually having to catch a flight or travel to Haiti.

Flights to Haiti - New Airline - Haiti Aviation

Haiti Aviation is a new airline company run by Haitian investors. Haiti Aviation made its inaugural flight on Friday, July 19, 2013 from Miami to Port-au-Prince Airport...

Reports say that the investors hope it will help bring tourists back to Haiti.

This an actual photo of Haiti Aviation's First flight To Haiti from Miami to Port-au Prince on Friday July 19,2013 with 149 Passengers

(Photo: Ricardo Saint-Cyr)

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Plantation Mais - A Corn Field in Mauric Haiti

Here is a photo of a plantation mais, a corn field from the Haitian countryside locality called Mauric, right outside the city of Hinche.

Mauric is right on the other side of the Guayamunco river, Beautiful river, you have to see it.

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Anba Kolonbye - Under The Granary - Haiti Countryside, Maissade

In Haiti, Anba Kolonbye (under the granary) on the Haitian countryside is where you will find the old wooden chair (chez pay la), the old Wooden 'Pilon' (How do you say pilon in English?)

Anyway, the pilon under the granary is what I am sittin on. Haitians use it to mash their grains (pile mayi, pile pitimi, pile diri), to remove the husk from the seeds before cooking it.

Yep... Not everything goes to the mill.

How did we go from 'anba kolonbye' to milling grains. LOL

This photo was taken on the the Haitian town of Maissade, It's like a village a few miles from Hinche, Centre, Haiti.

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Haiti - Colonbye / Kolonbye

In Haiti, a 'kolonbye' is an elevated storage house, a Haitian version of a granary that Haitians on the countryside use to store their grains...

Haitians from the countryside of Haiti use what they call a beans 'colonbye' to store their crops (danre) like dried corn, millet, beans, peanuts, and everything else they harvest.

A kolonbye is also where they store the dried seeds to be planted on the next planting season.

Granaries are often built above the ground to keep the stored food away from mice and other animals.

Practice your Haitian Creole :: En province Haiti, peyisan itilize colonbye pou yo store danre (mayi, pitimi, pwa congo, pistach) ak tout lot sa ke yo recolte... Yo sere tou plan yo, ki vle di, grenn pou yo plante nan pwochenn sezon an...

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Dieu Si Bon Garage - Gonaives Haiti

Look at this photo, Dieu Si Bon Garage in Gonaives Haiti. From the sign we can tell it is a repair shop for big trucks (gros camions), where they repair the chassis of these truck and more.

You should see how Haitians redo the chasis of these old imported trucks before they turn it into a 'camion boite' (a Haitian truck that carries heave loads cross country). They literally double the original chassis

Another thing to notice is that the truck parked behind the sign for Dieu Si Bon Garage is called "Dieu Si Bon." Who do you think the owner is LOL...

Photo taken while traveling in Haiti through the city of Gonaives

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Haiti's National Road 3 - Welcome to Thomonde

Here is photo of the welcome sign to the Haitian city of Thomonde, in the Centre department on the newly paved Route Nationale No 3 (Highway 3) in Haiti

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Extra Extra... Read all about it!

Do a news search about Haiti when there is no street protests in Haiti, what do you come up with? If you scan the International news media looking for news about Haiti, you will find two types of news about Haiti...