Best Traditional Trinidad Carnival Heritage Tour Destinations
Browse more guides: Trinidad travel | Americas destinations Best Traditional Trinidad Carnival Heritage Tour Destinations TL;DR Trinidad and Tobago - the southernmost Caribbean nation, just off the coast of Venezuela - is the home of Carnival (the most musically influential pre-Lenten festival in the world), calypso , soca , and the steel pan (one of the few acoustic instruments invented in the 20th century). Major destinations: Port of Spain Carnival (Sunday-Tuesday before Ash Wednesday), Asa Wright Nature Centre rainforest birding, Tobago beaches , plus broader Trinidad and Tobago cultural-tourism. Plan a 7-day Carnival trip or 10-day combined Trinidad-Tobago trip. This is the most musically and culturally distinctive Caribbean nation and one of the most visceral festival experiences anywhere. Background Trinidad was a Spanish colony from 1498 to 1797, then British until 1962 independence. The plantation economy was built on enslaved African labour; after emancipation i...