Mélange Travel & Lifestyle Magazine April 2017 | Page 467

GASPAREE CAVES
The Gasparee Caves are located on an
island off Trinidad’s Chaguaramas in
the Northwest. A boat ride and a short
hike is required to reach the caves
but having reached them, visitors
can descend into a limestone cavern
which contains not only stalagmites
and stalactites but also the Blue Grotto
with its electric blue waters. It is said
that pirates used to bury treasure in
these caves so perhaps you may get
lucky.
Photo Credit: Shriram Rajagopalan
PITCH LAKE
Pitch Lake, like its name implies, is an
asphalt lake, the largest of only 3 natural
asphalt lakes in the world. It covers an
area of about half a square kilometer. The
asphalt that has been mined here since
1859 is said to be the best in the world
and the natural springs that appear in the
center of the lake during the rainy season
are said to have special healing powers.
Photo Credit: Trinidad & Tobago Tourism
Development Company Ltd.
GALERA POINT
Galera Point lies at the island’s most
northeasterly point beyond the Toco
Lighthouse and from the point you can
see the two different colours of the water
where the Atlantic Ocean meets the
Caribbean Sea. It is from this point that it
is said that Amerindians threw themselves
into the sea rather than suffer under the
Spanish rule.
Photo Credit: Gavin