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The Royal Hotel Trinidad

46-54 Royal Road, San Fernando Trinidad, Trinidad and Tobago

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Port of Spain, Trinidad

A travel blog entry by roadscholarorg

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... The first temple we visited featured a large murti, or embodiment of a spirit, in the image of a monkey. The murti overlooked a large and beautiful temple which we could enter if we took off our shoes and promised not to take any photos. From the temple we could hear chanting from a smaller shelter near the temple. From there we went to the Temple on the Sea, a temple built by a Hindu man during a time when it was outlawed to build a temple ...

Our First Full day in Trinidad

A travel blog entry by finneyfamily

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... it would have been possible, we would have videotaped it...OMG you all would have died.

We did make it to the grocery store, which is something pretty rare on a Sunday; most stores are closed on Sundays. And if they are open on Sunday they randomly close when they want to.
The store did decide to close at noon, until a small union of people decided to riot about the closer.....the union won ...

Port of Spain, Trinadad-Tobago

A travel blog entry by danharriet

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... attention. It was a wood like mask made from the shell of a calabash gourd. It has a definite African influence and would fit well with the mask we purchased in Dakar, Senegal.

The ship is ready to leave port and head to our next destination of St. Lucia which is just a little north of Port of Spain.

In the "Where is Dan" hunt, you will find him looking around the little kiosks near the port building. Come in and help him find the mask that he had seen ...

End of 2009 Down The Islands

A travel blog entry by deanandliz

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... br>
27th Dec
Morning kayak with Tash and Paul around the bay, quick breakfast before 3hrs of shuttling people around to and from the mainland - each journey complimented with a 'journey beer'. Much sunbathing reading and eating fine food and a quick trip to Turtle bay to see Avalon (our other family house currently being renovated) and a turtle.

30th Jan to 3rd Jan
New year's eve party at Dean's cousins on the small island ...

Carnival Y2K9

A travel blog entry by questmiller

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... The final Carnival event for us was the Mardi Gras Parade of Bands. We were picked up at 6:30 am so that we could get good seats in the stands and we watched hour after hour of bikini-clad men and women shimmy and shake all their sparkles and other things. Anyone can "march" in the parade and regardless of the body shape or size, the "costumes" are tiny. Obviously a large number of these people did not read the directive we saw which was "DO NOT wear ah size ...