TRINIDAD & TOBAGO · CARIBBEAN
Reef, rainforest, and the rhythm of two islands.
Buccoo Reef and the Nylon Pool, Maracas Bay and the Caroni ibis at dusk. Island drives, boat trips, rainforest hikes and the best of Port of Spain across Trinidad and Tobago.
Two islands
Trinidad or Tobago?
One country, two completely different trips. Trinidad does the cities, the Carnival and the wildlife. Tobago does the reefs, the rainforest and the slow days. Most people come for both.
The big island
Trinidad
Port of Spain street food and steelpan, the scarlet ibis over the Caroni swamp, Maracas Bay over the mountains and rainforest in the Northern Range. The loud, living half of the country.
Explore Trinidad 58 tours →The reef island
Tobago
Buccoo Reef and the Nylon Pool, the Pigeon Point jetty, Main Ridge rainforest and one quiet bay after another. The slow, barefoot half, built for reef days and beach time.
Explore Tobago 42 tours →Only here
What only these two islands have.
Reefs, beaches and rainforest you can find all over the Caribbean. A sandbar standing in the open sea, the national bird flooding a swamp red at dusk, and a lagoon that glows when you touch it. Those three belong to Trinidad and Tobago alone.
Out on the reef
The Nylon Pool
A boat ride off Buccoo drops you onto a sandbar in the open sea. Waist-deep, clear turquoise water with reef all around and no land in sight. The glass-bottom boats drift over the coral on the way out. There is no beach here. You simply stand in the middle of the Caribbean.
- 1 Buccoo Reef and Nylon Pool Adventure
- 2 Tobago Buccoo Reef Glass Bottom Boat Tour
- 3 Tobago Buccoo Reef Glass Bottom Boat Cruise and Island Sightseeing Tour
At dusk
Scarlet Ibis at Caroni
Every evening thousands of scarlet ibis fly in to roost in the Caroni mangroves, turning the green trees red as the sun drops over the swamp. The ibis is Trinidad’s national bird, and a flat-bottomed boat is the only way to watch it happen. No other island in the Caribbean has this.
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The Glowing Lagoon
Paddle into the Bon Accord mangroves on a dark, moonless night and the water lights up electric blue around your hands and the kayak. It is bioluminescent plankton, and it only shows when the night is right. Tobago is one of a handful of places on earth you can do it.
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If you only book one.
The single most popular day out across both islands. A good first move while you're still working out the rest of the trip.
The classics
Trinidad & Tobago's Most Popular Tours
Buccoo Reef, the Caroni swamp, Maracas Bay and the full-island drives. The trips travellers book before anything else.
By place
Pick a stretch of the islands.
Port of Spain for the food and the mas. Caroni for the ibis at dusk. Maracas for the sand. Buccoo for the reef and the Nylon Pool.
By tour type
Or pick how you want to spend it.
Reef and Nylon Pool if you want the water. The drive over the mountains if you want Maracas. Caroni for the ibis, the rainforest for the waterfalls, the lagoon for the glow after dark.
The capital
Into Port of Spain.
Markets and street doubles, the Magnificent Seven mansions, the panyards and the mas. Three ways into Trinidad’s loud, lovely capital.
Up in the green
Rainforest and waterfalls.
Main Ridge is the oldest protected rainforest in the hemisphere, and Argyle drops in three tiers. Our favourites for the cool-off at the bottom.
After dark
Eat, drink, and lime.
Bake and shark at the beach, a rum shop, doubles on the street and soca somewhere down the road. The side of the islands you taste rather than photograph.
On the water
Boats, reefs and the open sea.
Glass-bottom boats over the coral, a line off the back of a pirogue, a slow circle of the whole island. If you only get on one boat, start with these.
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