Haiti place between cuba and jamaica on the map. Haiti have about 95 percent black population. The beach at the western end of Ile de la tortue. Near Cap Haitian on the nortern coast, offers decent reef diving. Haiti is the home of voodoo,an animistic African religion that's been melded with catholicis and grafted onto the local culture.
Rituals involve dancing and drumming, spirit possession and the occasional zombie.
At cerenomies, a worshipper is chosen to be mounted' by a spirit, called an iwa which then speaks through the person to deliver advice, commands and prediction. The rest of the 19th century saw a succession of tyrants and the gradual deterioration of the environment. The US intervened in 1915 and made some infrastructual improvements, but it proved no more popular than other foreign guests. After a Haitian uprising and growing disapproval at home, the US left the country in 1934.