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Trinidad and Tobago
Trinidad and Tobago is a twin-island Caribbean nation with two moods: Trinidad, the larger island, is the home of Carnival, the steelpan and Port of Spain's street food, with rainforest, scarlet ibis and a lake of natural asphalt a drive away, while Tobago, a short flight across the water, offers white-sand beaches, a glass-bottom reef trip to the Nylon Pool and the oldest protected rainforest in the Western Hemisphere. This guide books both islands in one place. On Trinidad it lines up the Caroni Bird Sanctuary sunset boat, a day at the Asa Wright Nature Centre, Maracas Bay and its bake and shark, Pitch Lake, a Port of Spain city tour, a night food tour, the Royal Botanic Gardens and Queen's Park Savannah, a waterfall hike, leatherback turtle watching in season and a live steelpan evening. On Tobago it covers Pigeon Point, Buccoo Reef, a bioluminescence night boat, Main Ridge Forest Reserve, Argyle Falls, Englishman's Bay and a full-day island circuit. Every page says plainly what to book ahead and what is free, and the guides explain how Carnival is timed and when to go. Then it matches you with seven hotels, from a Port of Spain splurge and a budget base in Woodbrook to garden, resort and value stays in Tobago.
