In addition to an ever-more affluent and cosmopolitan feast of pubs, bars and clubs, the music, dance, street food and festival scenes are as vibrant and prolific as anywhere in the Caribbean.
A short hop north, the charter destination of Tobago offers slow respite from Trinidad’s fierce vivacity, with spectacular reefs, internationally important wildlife, a scattering of colonial forts and some of the oldest protected rainforest in the Western hemisphere. For now, tourism is not yet the linchpin of the national economy but with an authentic energy to its towns and a burgeoning calendar of cruise ship stopovers, these dynamic islands are rapidly becoming the South Caribbean charter of choice.
