Central & the west coast | Touring Trinidad
Exploring “central”: Caroni Bird Sanctuary—Chaguanas—La Vega Estate—Ajoupa Pottery—Pointe-à-Pierre Wild Fowl Trust—San Fernando —Princes Town—Navet Dam; Carapichaima—Waterloo—Point Lisas The landscape of central Trinidad is marked by rivers, rolling plains, swamps and cane fields. Cocoa, sugar cane and rice plantations were once the main economic earners of the area. Vegetable and rice farmers still use the central …
Sean De Freitas talks Tobago mountain biking
Sean De Freitas started mountain biking as a hobby and enjoyed it so much that he started his own company. We chatted with him about his hobby
Touring Tobago: the Caribbean coast
Explore Tobago‘s idyllic west coast, with the gentle waters of the Caribbean Sea
Rueben Clement on his favourite beaches in Tobago
Rueben Clement of Tour Tobago gives us his picks for the very best beaches in Tobago
Touring Trinidad: heading north
Exploring the north coast & Northern Range: Maraval—North Coast Road—Maracas Bay—Blanchisseuse—Brasso Seco—Arima—Port of Spain (about four hours’ driving) North Trinidad is dominated by the mountains of the Northern Range. This includes Trinidad’s highest mountain, El Cerro del Aripo, and its oldest rock formations. The northern slopes meet the Caribbean Sea, and the southern slopes end …
Touring Trinidad: the east coast
Manzanilla, Mayaro, Guayaguayare & the east coast Manzanilla and Mayaro: one long, palm-fringed beach runs into the other to shape Trinidad’s east coast. Developed as coconut estates, the plantations have given this sea-coast its distinctive character. Discover the east coast Back in Valencia where the road divided, the right fork (the Eastern Main Road) takes …
Touring Trinidad: San Fernando
Trinidad’s second city is the commercial centre for the energy-based industries located in the south-west of the island.
Touring Trinidad: the “deep south”
Trinidad’s at once industrial and bucolic south is in many ways the backbone of Trinidad. The oil which has (literally) fuelled Trinidad and Tobago’s rise as the most developed country in the Caribbean, comes from here; and the fight for workers’ rights began here back in the 1930s