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