Trinidad: the Caribbean's biggest carnival

Cradle of calypso music and steel pan, Trinidad hosts every year one of the Caribbean's largest and most celebrated carnivals.

Collective taxis (maxi-taxis) remain the most common way to move around.

The Queen's Park Savannah, among the world's largest urban green spaces, animates the main parades of Trinidad's Carnival every February with elaborate costumes.

Just steps away, the Magnificent Seven, seven colonial villas in different architectural styles overlooking the Savannah, remain symbols of the island's golden sugar era.

Continuing northward, one reaches the Northern Range National Park, which protects rainforest and beaches where leatherback turtles, the world's largest, nest.

Toward evening, Port of Spain's venues animate concerts of steel pan, the musical instrument invented in Trinidad in the Forties.

The steel pan, a musical instrument made from recycled metal drums, was invented in Trinidad in the nineteen-forties and is today recognized as the newest acoustic musical instrument in history.

The beaches of the Northern National Park host one of the world's largest concentrations of nesting leatherback sea turtles, a species that can reach two meters in length.