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
Music to make you feel better
For some, Carnival is pan. Full stop.
Steelpan aficionados hit the panyards
of their favourite steelbands
for weeks as they practise for the
Panorama semi-finals (two Sundays
before Carnival) and Panorama
finals (Carnival Saturday). Those
successfully adjudicated on site
early in the season advance to the
semi-finals at the Queen’s Park
Savannah two weeks before Carnival.
The panyard crawl to visit each
band as it’s being adjudicated at the
preliminary round is a special kind
of vigil for the pan faithful. Real
pan lovers will be in the Grand
Stand for semis and finals, or on
the drag/track that leads to the
Savannah stage — bands practise
and fine-tune as they go.
J’ouvert mornin’ come
For some, it’s pan. For others, it’s
J’ouvert that is the centrepiece of
their Carnival. At 4am on Carnival
Monday, the “reign of the Merry
Monarch” begins as thousands of
people gyrate through the streets,
disguised in the trappings of
“dutty mas” — oil, grease, paint,
mud, cocoa, clay, old clothes, or
provocative costumes delivering
stinging socio-political commentary.
Traditional bands feature
characters like jab jabs, blue devils,
bats, and more.
J'ouvert on the Savannah stage
Blue Devil mas
Carnival Tuesday
Let nobody stop us as we dance this dance
Celebrating this spirit of our existence
As each footstep makes music every voice must chant, with love:
Awake, warriors awake—J’ouvert morning come
— Ella Andall
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