Trinidad
Trinidad
is 50
miles
long by
30
miles
wide
and
lies
about
seven
miles
off the
continent
of
South
America
and the
country
of
Venezuela
in the
southern
Caribbean.
Christopher
Columbus
was the
first
European
to
discover
it in
1498. The
climate
is
tropical
with average
temperatures
of 270C
(810F)
and
rainfall
200cm
(40
inches)
a year,
with a
dry
season
between
January
and
May.
It
is a
meeting
place
between
peoples
from
many
different
continents,
where
an old
world
civilisation
is
overlaid
with
new
world
energy.
It is
the
home of
whose
creative
energy
that
has
spread
far and
wide.
World
famous
Carnival,
which
takes
place
in
January,
February
and
March
is
among
those
things
which
everyone
should
experience
at
least
once in
their
lives,
no
matter
how far
they
have to
come to
join
in!
Outside
the
town
centres,
luxuriant
and
exuberant
forests
and
leafy
hills
with a
profusion
of
wildlife
and
flora.
With
over
400
species,
it is one
of the
richest
areas
for
birds
in the
world,
accessible
from
good
roads
and
forest
tracks
over
most of
its
1,200
square
miles.
The
world
famous Asa
Wright
Nature
Centre,
on the
southern
side of
the
mountains
at the
head of
the
Arima
valley,
is 60
minute
drive
from
Plantation
House.'
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