The views are absolutely stunning. Haiti is a country of contrasts. With four million people living in relatively small Port-au-Prince, it feels like a sea of humanity, colored by gritty and almost overwhelming poverty, with marginal social systems in deplorable shades of gray. Yet just outside the city, the summer color is emerald green - and almost every foot of the mountain terraced to grow a table crop. Of course that is part of the problem - the land rarely rests, the soil with no anchor of tree roots to protect it from the rain washing it down the mountain. Nonetheless it holds great beauty.
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