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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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A year in the life

For more on many of

these celebrations, see

our Festivals coverage in

both the Trinidad and

Tobago sections of the

magazine!

January

• 1: New Year's Day

• Carnival season begins

• 24: T&T International

Marathon (Trinidad)

• 25: Chinese New Year

— Year of the Rat

February

• 24–25: J'ouvert; Carnival

Monday; Carnival Tuesday

• Tobago Carnival Regatta

NEW FIRE Festival

March

• 15: Phagwa (Holi)

• Jazz Artists on the Greens

(Trinidad)

• Rally Trinidad

• 30: Spiritual Baptist

Liberation Day —

commemorating the 1951

repeal of the colonial-era

Shouters Prohibition

Ordinance (1917), which

had effectively banned this

Christian/Orisha syncretic

religion

• Turtle nesting season begins

(through September)

April

• 10–13: Easter Weekend

(public holidays Friday and

Monday) — hot cross buns,

horse racing, and Tobago’s

goat and crab races (Mt

Pleasant on Monday and

Buccoo on Tuesday) are

highlights. Look out for the

beating of the Good Friday

Bobolee — an effigy of

Judas Iscariot, representing

politicians, nefarious

characters, and occasionally some

particularly bad ex-boyfriends…

• NEW FIRE Festival (Trinidad)

• Tobago Jazz Experience

• Tobago Fashion Coda

• Jazz Under the Stars (Trinidad)

May

• Bocas Lit Fest —

The Trinidad & Tobago

Literary Festival

• Pt Fortin Borough Day (Trinidad) —

full week of J’ouvert, mas, pan, and

parties leading up the big street

party

• La Divina Pastora (Trinidad)

• Tobago International Game Fishing

Tournament

• Tobago Sea to Sea Marathon

• Ganga Dashara (Trinidad) —

Hindu river festival honouring

the descent of India’s sacred River

Ganges

• European Film Festival (Trinidad)

• May MTB Madness —

Tobago mountain biking event

• North Coast Jazz Festival (Trinidad)

• Africa Film Festival (Trinidad)

• TBC: Eid-ul-Fitr —

marking the end of the holy Muslim

6 Discover Trinidad & Tobago 2020

Public holiday

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