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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We remember.
fest i vals
And we celebrate
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Bocas Lit Fest
The five-day Trinidad & Tobago
Literary Festival brings together
readers, writers, poets, and
publishers from the Caribbean
diaspora each April/May for book
launches, discussions, performances,
readings, workshops, and
the presentation of annual prizes
for fiction, non-fiction, and poetry.
Outreach events continue through
the year, both at home and at
overseas book festivals, as do nonaffiliated
book launches, readings
and lectures.
bocaslitfest.com
Emancipation
The public holiday is celebrated
on 1 August to commemorate the
honouring the ancestors
During the course of the year, several
smaller festivals honour African traditions
in Trinidad: the Obatala Festival
(Woodbrook in January); Ancestral
Egungun Festival (Febeau Village,
San Juan in February); Yoruba
Village Drum Festival (Port of
Spain in June); and the Oshun River
Festival (Salybia in August).
end of slavery in the British colonies
(1838). Enjoy art exhibitions,
lectures, performances, religious
observances, and trade shows. The
Lidj Yasu Omowale Emancipation
Village at the Queen’s Park Savannah
is the centre of the activities.
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[TOP; opposite page bOTTOM] lISA fernanDEz
[OPPOSITE page top] courtesy emanCIPATIOn support committee
[OPPOSITE page middle] Ariann THOMPSOn/MEP publISHERS
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