Must See Jamaica - Nine Mile Museum

Despite being out-of-the-way, the village of Nine Mile is marked on the tourist map as the site of Bob Marley's birth and his final resting place. The community where the 'King of Reggae' was born on February 6, 1945, is set dramatically in the midst of Cockpits. The Nine Mile Museum commemorates his enduring legacy.

At the Museum a Rastafarian guide leads pilgrims to the hut - now festooned with devotional graffiti - where the reggae god spent his early years. Another highlight is 'inspiration stone' (or 'Mt Zion Rock') on which Marley sat and learned to play guitar. Marley's body lies buried along with his guitar in an 2.5m-tall oblong marble mausoleum inside a tiny church of traditional Ethiopian design.

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