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Santana's Cracked Lobster
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Santana’s Cracked Lobster: Hands Down The Best Meal In The Caribbean

It’s 12:30 on a Saturday afternoon, but the white sand beaches in Williams Town on Little Exuma are empty. Everyone is at Santanna’s, a delicious open-air seafood bar on the water. While Chef Dee serves up delicious fried shrimp and grouper, the real draw is the cracked lobster. Upon first [...]

Green-throated Mango Hummingbird. Image via Yerette.
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Trinidad: The Land Of The Hummingbirds

“Did you know Trinidad and Tobago is the Land of the Hummingbirds?” asks Theo, an enormous grin on his face. I didn’t, but looking around I am not at all surprised. We’re at Yerette, a hummingbird sanctuary of sorts in the lush Maracas Valley. The attraction is also the home [...]

Steel Pan Drumming: Exploring Trinidad Through Music
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Steel Pan Drumming: Exploring Trinidad Through Music

The national instrument of Trinidad & Tobago is the steelpan, or steel drum. Crafted from oil drums — although many of these drums never contained oil — these instruments are not actually drums in the membranophone sense, but are steel containers which are struck with a rubber-tipped stick to create [...]

Indulging In Saint Lucia’s Chocolate Culture
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Indulging In Saint Lucia’s Chocolate Culture

Cocoa is one of Saint Lucia’s most important crops and is a major part of its history, dating back to the 1700s when the industry was flourishing. Visitors to the island can experience this delicious piece of Saint Lucian heritage through plantation tours, chocolate-inspired menus, ambrosial workshops, sweet spa treatments [...]