With another sporting event to set pulses racing, the Malta Carib International Cycle Classic lends a spirit of friendly competition and fun. As a smaller version of the Trinidad Carnival, the Tobago Fest flavors its celebrations with the steel band and calypso competitions, masqueraders, costumed bands, and night mas. This culminates the following day at Store Bay in a beach fete with wet t-shirt and bikini competitions. October in Tobago and Trinidad is lit up with the colorful festival of Diwali, the Festival of Lights. With 40% of Indians on the islands, this festival is celebrated with exotic displays of lights, dramas, skits, beautiful fireworks accompanied with the rumble of bamboo cannons, lighting of diyas, poojas and special feasts. The Patience Hill Harvest Festival at St. Luke’s Anglican Church exhibits the pilgrimage of the history of Tobago that takes the audience through the days of the slave trade to the present. The performers dressed in attractive costumes also render appealing European dances like the polka, waltz, quadrille and spin to the mesmerizing beat of the African drumming ensembles. The Blue Food Festival at L’Anse Fourmi displays an annual event of entertainment showcasing cooking skills with the use of local resources. Visit the website for room reservations at a fantastic rate. For more detailed information on resort booking visit: www.stayintobago.com and www.resortstobago.com.
Half Moon Blue resorts in Tobago draws you into another world where the culture of comfort is displayed with sophistication and style. Nestled in a tranquil nook of the island, the resort is furnished to perfection and offers a hideaway that remains etched in a holidaymaker’s memory. Their huge suites overlook the gorgeous Bacolet Bay and the historic Fort St. George. Hidden in a secret place where romance envelops the atmosphere, Half Moon Resorts in Tobago brings in the forces of the universe to merge with its lovely surroundings. You can commune with Nature as you float on the cool waters of infinity pool with starlight shimmering on the ripples. Or as the sun throws its golden rays over Tobago, you can bask on the deck and absorb the lovely views.
Plan an exciting vacation in a place that never sleeps…where the party culture swings night into day and day into night…where the secrets of the Caribbean open out a wild and winsome tropical adventure of traditions and customs of a dazzling world. Trinidad and Tobago besides being the most popular invigorating holiday hot spots, display a host of favorite activities. Tobago invites you to a spell-binding ride through its colorful villages vibrant with the spirit of celebration and throbbing with music, magic and multi-ethnic traditional festivities.
Opening up a path of discovery into a magnificent hideaway, Tobago introduces you to the art of comfort and the craft of Caribbean hospitality. Half Moon Blue at the French colonial resort at the Donkey Cart House, Bacolet Bay, Tobago, offers fabulous romantic rooms with great décor that are ideal to rest and rejuvenate. Take a break away from the excitement and enjoy the incredible cuisine with delicacies from the sea accompanied with the famous Rum Punch and taste the secrets of the Caribbean at Half Moon Blue Resorts.
Tobago offers fun-filled activities that include fishing, bird watching, nature tours, mountain biking, horseback riding and marine sports. With a gamut of fun and frolic, a vacation in Tobago takes you on an adventure with swimming, snorkeling, diving, sailing, water surfing, cycling, horse riding, golf, water and eco tours or taking a walk on the beach. Tobago takes you for a whirl through her fabulous festivals right through the month of October. Bordered by the villages of Plymouth (North) and Mt. Irvine and Buccoo (South) and the Grafton and Courland Estates, Black Rock is located to the west of Scarborough. The name stems from the formation of black rock left behind by volcanic activities of the past.
The Black Rock has taken part in the Heritage Festival since 1988 and offers the Heritage 2008 with a tasteful touch showcasing the Sea Festival at Mt. Irvine. The Black Rock Village Council promotes all aspects of musical, historical, cultural and sporting events. Surrounded with a mystic ambience, customs and habits of the fisher folk of Black Rock and their superstitions, the festival blends in native rituals and beliefs enacted with the Pan Theater, Boat Christening and the Seine Hanging. Half Moon Blue invites you to relax after the excitement of the festivals and casts a spell of romance and old-world charm to give you the intrinsic value of the true taste of Caribbean revitalization.
