1.
Correct Answer
A. Jamaica
Explanation
This is a fishing canoe - you'll see them in both countries but this one was taken in Jamaica.
2.
Correct Answer
B. Haiti
Explanation
Better off fishermen use sailboats like this. Again you'll see them in both countries - but this one was taken in Haiti
3.
Correct Answer
A. Jamaica
Explanation
Out in the country is probably one of the more difficult places to identify. This is a home in the mountains in Jamaica.
4.
Correct Answer
B. Haiti
Explanation
If you got this one right there's a good chance it's because you've been there. This is the Hotel Oloffson in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, known as Gingerbread architecture. It is miraculously completely intact after the earthquake.
5.
Correct Answer
A. Jamaica
Explanation
Just a random street shot, this one in Jamaica. The giveaway in this shot is the KFC sign in the background - you won't see American chains in Haiti.
6.
Correct Answer
A. Jamaica
Explanation
Kids playing marbles. This was in Nine Mile - the town where Bob Marley was born (behind me was a pot plantation - i figured showing a photo of that would be a dead giveaway).
7.
Correct Answer
A. Jamaica
Explanation
The bay where our villa in Jamaica was
8.
Correct Answer
B. Haiti
Explanation
San Marc, Haiti is in the distance - taken from the outskirts.
9.
Correct Answer
B. Haiti
Explanation
A mural inside Hotel Oloffson. The giveaway in this photo would be the RAM in the top left.
10.
Correct Answer
B. Haiti
Explanation
A small house in the mountain outer areas of Petion--Ville above Port-au-Prince
11.
Correct Answer
A. Jamaica
Explanation
A rastafarian house in the country in Jamaica
12.
Correct Answer
B. Haiti
Explanation
A building along the road in Haiti - I'm not sure what it was, looks to be closed now.
13.
Correct Answer
B. Haiti
Explanation
Farmed mountains in Haiti
14.
Correct Answer
A. Jamaica
Explanation
This is in the mountains in Jamaica. The only noticeable difference from the mountains in Haiti is that there are more trees.
15.
Correct Answer
A. Jamaica
Explanation
In Haiti most electricity, antennas etc are makeshift - but this one I saw in Jamaica, made from a treebranch, a broomstick and old coathangers. A level of innovation a lot of us have lost due to laziness and convenience.
16.
Correct Answer
B. Haiti
Explanation
Sunset at a beach in San Marc, Haiti
17.
Correct Answer
B. Haiti
Explanation
Sunset at a beach near Jacmel, Haiti.
18.
Correct Answer
A. Jamaica
Explanation
An open windowed church in Jamaica. Although both countries are very religious, the giveaways here would be that Jamaica is largely protestant while Haiti is largely Catholic (hard to tell from this photo) and that the cemetaries in Haiti don't tend to be so close to the church and are generally very colorful. But that's stretching it - I wouldn't be surprised to see this church in Haiti.
19.
Correct Answer
A. Jamaica
Explanation
Cutting a coconut open with a machete for us in a market? That absolutely happens in both countries. If you guessed right here it would have to be because of the nice car behind him, or luck.
20.
Correct Answer
B. Haiti
Explanation
Beautiful stucco beach house among palm trees. Yep, Haiti - near Jacmel.