Cape Haitien, La Citadel, ghosts and the living.

Ghosts are real. Ive seen them here:







This is The Citadel in Cape Haitien. It is the largest fort in the Western Hemisphere.













The fort was commissioned by Henri Christophe between 1805 and 1820 to fight off attacks from the French, but was never used as the island nation was never really physically threatened after Haiti's fight for independence in 1804.

The ghosts of threat still exist though. Although Haiti has maintained it's independence, the challenges faced seem at times ready to topple the country through the sheer magnitude and weight of the problems. It will change though, the ghosts of La Citadel told me while I stayed there. And I did stay there.


Four days in a little room, damp like camping, cold at night from the masonry and eerie. And it was an amazing experience, one of the best in my life.

More on the Cape Haitien, The Citadel, ghosts and the living on the next blog post.