Trinidad and Tobago Travel Guide 2026: Carnival, Pitch Lake, Tobago Reefs and Maracas Bay
Browse more guides: Trinidad travel | Americas destinations Trinidad and Tobago Travel Guide 2026: Carnival, Pitch Lake, Tobago Reefs and Maracas Bay TL;DR I went to Trinidad and Tobago for the noise, the food, and a single image of scarlet ibis pouring out of a sunset sky over Caroni. Carnival on Monday and Tuesday before Ash Wednesday is the headline, with Feb 16-17 in 2026, but the twin-island republic is much larger than that. Trinidad gives me steel pan in the streets, the world's largest natural asphalt deposit at La Brea, a 1,500-acre rainforest station, and 100 hectares of urban park in the middle of Port of Spain. Tobago, a 25-minute flight or 2.5-hour ferry away, gives me the oldest legally protected rainforest in the Western Hemisphere (gazetted Apr 13 1776), thatched-hut beaches at Pigeon Point, and a 200,000-hectare UNESCO Biosphere Reserve declared in 2021. Indian visitors get an eVisa for USD 90, valid five years with 90-day stays each entry. English is everyone...