Trinidad & Tobago

At a glance · 5 reasons to go

Why Trinidad & Tobago.

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   Trinidad Carnival is the most musically inventive on earth — the birthplace of steelpan, calypso, and soca, and the cultural event of the Caribbean year.

2. 2

   Tobago is the wild, laid-back twin: Pigeon Point’s postcard beach, the Buccoo Reef glass-bottom snorkel, and the oldest legally protected rainforest in the Western Hemisphere (Main Ridge, 1776).

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   It is the birdwatching capital of the Caribbean — the Asa Wright Nature Centre, and the Caroni Swamp at dusk, when scarlet ibis flood the mangroves red as they come in to roost.

4. 4

   The Pitch Lake at La Brea is the largest natural asphalt deposit on earth — a genuinely strange, slightly otherworldly thing to walk out onto.

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   Doubles, bake-and-shark, and roti make Trinidad's street food the most distinctive in the Caribbean — a delicious expression of its Indian-African-Creole melting pot.

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