Discover Trinidad & Tobago 2020 | Issue 31 | Travel & Destination Guide
Discover Trinidad & Tobago is the islands' longest-running and most trusted destination guide, with all the info you need to plan your holiday, vacation, or exploration of the islands. DTT has published 31 issues since 1991, and helps readers discover where to stay, dine, lime, party, and shop; and what to see (including the islands’ best sites) and experience (festivals, arts and culture, sports, and eco escapes), in both islands. There’s also a national calendar of events; info on getting here and getting around; tips for safe and sustainable travel; T&T history and society in a nutshell, maps; and more. For the fifth edition in the row, the magazine features a distinctive dual-cover design, with one cover for each island — a Phagwa or Holi celebrant in Trinidad (photo by Chris Anderson), and dancers at the Tobago Heritage Festival (photo by Alva Viarruel). For more: https://www.discovertnt.com
Discover Trinidad & Tobago is the islands' longest-running and most trusted destination guide, with all the info you need to plan your holiday, vacation, or exploration of the islands. DTT has published 31 issues since 1991, and helps readers discover where to stay, dine, lime, party, and shop; and what to see (including the islands’ best sites) and experience (festivals, arts and culture, sports, and eco escapes), in both islands. There’s also a national calendar of events; info on getting here and getting around; tips for safe and sustainable travel; T&T history and society in a nutshell, maps; and more. For the fifth edition in the row, the magazine features a distinctive dual-cover design, with one cover for each island — a Phagwa or Holi celebrant in Trinidad (photo by Chris Anderson), and dancers at the Tobago Heritage Festival (photo by Alva Viarruel). For more: https://www.discovertnt.com
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Festivals
jumbie, and about Gang Gang
Sara and the Witch’s Grave in
Golden Lane
The washerwomen at the river
for Tobago Heritage Festival
• the Ole Time Tobago Wedding
in Moriah, featuring groom in
stovepipe hat and tailcoat and
bride with trousseau on head,
processing slowly with the
distinctive three-step “brush
back”
• the Pembroke Salaka Feast,
which also features Africanderived
sacred dances (like the
reel, jig, and salaka) that are
indigenous to the area
• the Plymouth Ole Time
Carnival, featuring African
stick-fighting and a cast of
masquerade characters, Ju Ju
warriors, Jab Jabs, and devils.
Blue Food Festival
October
Each October in Bloody Bay,
L’Anse Fourmi, and Parlatuvier,
communities pay homage to the
versatility and utility of root crops
or “blue food”. Some varieties of
dasheen can turn blue or indigo
when cooked, hence the term —
which now is used to describe all
similar crops, including sweet
potato, cassava, and yam. For the
festival, all of the dasheen plant
is used to prepare bread, cookies
and sweets, ice-cream, and even
lasagne! A culinary competition
1776: oldest forest reserve in
western hemisphere designated
(Courtesy Tobago Tourism Agency)
1781: French seize Tobago,
convert it to sugar colony
(Courtesy Tobago Tourism Agency)
1801: slave uprising quelled
(Courtesy T&T National Archive)
[bAnner] courtesy tobAGO tourism AGEnCY
[TOP] courtesy THA
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