Tobago (travel-documentary from the season "Caribbean Moments")
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The beauty of the nature of Tobago once inspired Daniel Defoe to let his famous castaway Robinson Crusoe land there. The island appeared to the hero as a planted Garden of Eden, and it is still impressive today. "Main Rich Forest Reserve" is the earliest preserved virgin rainforest in the western hemisphere (since 1776).
Arawak people were the first settlers on the island. Later the Caribs came from South America. The name Chistopher Columbus gave the island in 1498 was Bellaforma, later it became the name Tobago from Tobacco, which was growm on the island. Tobago was colonised by the British Empire. With the colonization different plants come to the island, such as cocoa and sugar cane. Plantations of these plants were driven with the labour force of slaves until the abolishment of slavery in 1833.
The island state Trinidad and Tobago belongs geographycally to South America, because of its nature. At the end of the last ice age melting glaciers caused the sea level to raise turning Trinidad and Tobago into islands.
Ian Flemming was inspired by the book "Birds of the West Indies", written by the ornithologist james Bond, who made his research on Tobago and gave its name to the very famous protagonist of his romans: the British secret agent, Commander James Bond.
The documentation shows also the different fishing methods of the tobagonians. Some still fish in a very traditional manner by throwing the fishing nets into the sea and pull them back on the beach. The locals sell the fish at the market in Scarborough.
"Liming" ist the tobagonian art of doing nothing. People get together, drink and play cards. And of course music plays an important role on the village. Every Sunday is Sunday school, a huge street party featuring bands playing the steelpan.
God bless my homeland T&T can’t wait to go man
Thankyou so much for this Video. RIP to so many people i know in this Documentary.
Excellent video. Liming is healthy. It keeps people from getting nervous breakdowns like up north. I am sure there are very few people who suffer from loneliness. You always have a good and a really good friend in the Caribbean.
Thanks for sharing
Trinidad birthplace of the steel pan Kaiso Calypso soca chutney parang limbo Trinidad forever ❤️🇹🇹❤️
Tobago..profuse bliss..
My Country 🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹 I love you 😘 Sweet T&T Any One Who dislike Fire 🔥 burnt You......... This Country is Very beautiful full of history and happiness Yessssss Everything was That Narrated is Saying is True
Crime infested shit hole.
@@fbi4585 , yeah just like the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA
Trinidad has very much not nice like when I was.growing. up as a little girl
@@geetaseeram7646 its a lot better in Trinidad than USA. Anyone of black or brown skin can get murdered by the police simply for the colour of their skin in USA. Give me TRINIDAD any day of the week.
I'm surprised the documentary does not mention the excellent diving in that island. The many nutrients of the Orinoco River delta reach the waters of Tobago thus the sea life around the island is rich and diverse.
well the many nutrients of the Orinoco river delta have to pass Trinidad first before reaching Tobago so I suppose the sea life in Trinidad is richer and more diverse than in Tobago.
My friend let me correct you about the steel pan not "somewhere down the line someone struck a piece of metal and like this sound" as a Tobagonian and me as a Trinidadian I'm somewhat ashamed that you don't know the history steel pan. It was invented or created by a gentleman named Winston spree Simon.
he knew, but tobagonians like all them other Caribbean islands never ever give Trinidad its due credit. I have been to st lucia and seen steel pan being played and the st Lucian tried to fool the tourists into thinking the steel pan was invented in st lucia. not a mention of Trinidad or Winston spree Simon .
@@trinihammer and it even extend to America, I saw a video where they were mass producing it, and they didn't even mention Trinidad and Tobago.
@@killerb187r.o.dstunna9 all you have to say is did you know the steel pan is made from oil drums. now which Caribbean island produces oil ? let me guess I know of only one island in the Caribbean that produces oil and that is none other than TRINIDAD. the steel pan is made from oil drums so could only have come from Trinidad and no other island . Trinidad has always been onto a good thing and then the rest of the Caribbean just hijack it.
Nice one Alvin
@@trinihammer Trinidad and Tobago is one country you can't just separate it. And don't act like Trinidad never gets credit because everyone knows Trinidad for many things and Tobago is just 'a piece ah land'
Love it...Every time I go to Trinidad to visit my dad..Freeman from Realize Road,Princes Town we go to Tobago..And I absolutely Love Tobago.The people are warm and Inviting to tourists,The night life is excellent and the beaches are picture perfect.Enjoy all,Kem.
they only nice and loving to black and white people. if you are east indian descent forget it they will run you out of the island.
GOOD VIDEO THANKS TO THE CARIBS AND ARAWAKS AMERINDIANS
Such a beautiful and also very interesting place! I have to include it in my top next goals! When I travel I always take my travel playlist with me, including classics like One by Metallica, Lateralus by Tool or new bands and songs like for example Wasted by Delta Parole, what travel playlists do you fellow travelers love and listen to?
Any thing by king squeakie
I appreciate you! Loved it!!
Absolutely …the steel pan born in the hills of lavantille Port of Spain Trinidad @ 1930s 🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹
excellent video!
God bless 🙌
7:41 Correction! Slaves were forced to work for no money !
Not low wages, but no wages !
Ninety one Foxtrot
Blinking heck!!!!!!
@NinetyOne Foxtrot , you sound like the perfect white slave master
@@trinihammer why white dont u think there were other races that had slaves,
including black slave owners.
@@frips1000 ,in Tobago the slave owners were white and English.
@@trinihammer yes english that bought their slaves from black slave traders
Nice vid
ehem! @18:00. The term "LIMING" does not mean doing nothing, it basically means "hanging out".
Exactly
Yep
Hanging like the limes on the tree..”limin”
Nice video
lindo vídeo
Sweet T&T...
I know this guy in the yellow polo shirt on the Pan, after my night shift on the ferries, he used to lime with us white boys at Neils store, having a beer. Nice fella he is
ah going back.... im ah trinbagonian
Arawak is Columbus' name...the people are called Tainos. They were in the Northern islands.
The Carib's name is Kalinagoes and they were in the Southern from Antigua.
Awesome video
My home
Great video of our nation
The gentleman in the purple t-shirt is Quilton Callender - they got his name wrong!
What is the name of that fishing lure the captain is using? Anyone know?
The black back looks like an eagle claw mankees has it for 45 or so
That steel pan guy should have known Winston Spree Simon
Another small islander claiming to be trini. ...I live in Diego Martin. .. there's 2 Ferraris up here. A rolls Royce, countless 2015 skylines, porche caymans and Cheyennes, etc etc. that being said, the prices of houses are ludicrous. There are areas where the cheapest house is 12mil and it's bigger than the biggest building in your small island... either your jealous or ignorant... regardless, your wrong :P
Xwind01 what makes you think he didn't know of him?
FaddaWolf You're small islandar too compared to the Greater Antilles so close your ignorant mouth.
Alpha581 and you're an idiot that doesn't understand the concept of "small islanders". but I guess that's what happens when you live in one of those poor as fuck, tourism dependent countries right?
FaddaWolf It's obvious that you have never visited the islands you call poor.Oh and you need to diversify your economy unless you want to end up like Venezuela in the future.
Wow... my eyes were stuck 4 a min..😘If u know wat I'm saying...!
LOL!
Lmfao
Tobago might've been the inspiration for the island in Robinson Crusoe, but the inspiration for the book was sailor Alexander Selkirk, who was marooned on the Juan Fernández Islands.
I didn't know Ian Fleming lived on Tobago.
This one was kind of boring. Too much fishing. There are more interesting places in Tobago, than what they showed.
Totally agree! It was boring and poorly researched. The narrator was good but the script was so incorrect I had to stop half way through...very poor representation of beautiful Tobago.
This video needs doing over, needs some corrections
@SunEagle Cherokee Good morning ,if you are a born Tobagoian raised in Tobago and live here in Tobago like I do and looked at that video you would really see it needs some corrections.
@SunEagle Cherokee I stopped the video at Crusoe. There is a whole island named after him off the coast of Argentina. Due to another msg above about 'limin' I jumped to 18:00 to only hear that it is particular to them, which is contrary to my upbringing on another Caribbean island. Sam Love I am sure is right about it being rife with mistakes.
@@johnphantom and she's right, these a lot a mistake, But not so much you have to worry about it.
LOL, I'm ashamed of myself. I pride myself on understanding every accent and dialect in Tobago, yet I couldn't understand a thing those guys on Stonehaven bay were saying.
Lmfao Im from Tobago I couldn't understand them, it's a tobago thing different places speak differently. What they're doing is speaking really fast so it sound like a different language.
I live here could not make out what they were saying either.lol
When the guys pull seine in Stonehaven, in hardly ever see any fish so I don't know why they continue to do it. There is no fish sold on Stonehaven, and very little fish at Mt Irvine
I*m Swedish. My country was named. Mot Portugese, why?
I'm Latvian and my country wasn't named :( Tobago was a colony of the Duchy of Courland and Semigallia.
What a pity that having made such an effort to travel the island so extensively and film so beautifully, they proceeded to present a narrative that was so littered with inaccuracies as to render the production unusable. Fact checking was non existent. 10/10 for effort 5/10 for achievement.
Don't blame the narrator, a lot of the people being interviewed had no clue what they were talking about....especially the guy talking about steel pans. The narrator's just relaying what they told him.
tobAgonian not tobaGonian.
LOL!
Correct pronunciation is always important. It demonstrates preparation and attention to detail that recognises and respects what is correct locally. The narrator comes across as ill-informed and careless. Is that important? Only if they gave a shit about Tobago, and clearly they do not. Just another news feature for them on their island hopping junket. Next.
LukeCageforhire stupzzz u said the same thing
Columbus could find his nose!
How about they were trying to replicate the xylophone that was common from the West African culture from which they were stolen. African did not show up tabla Rasa to the new world
The percussive nature of the two items is widely regarded by musicoligists as the only similarity. So how about accepting the fact that they were creative enough to invent an instrument from a disused old drum that bears no resemblance to a xylophone whatsoever?
I want to go much,
wwe goldberg
slaves were not used as cheap labour, they were used as free labour. What part of the word slave dont you understand?
Some people does try and butter it up
What they did to the Africans and Indians who were kidnapped from their home land and dropped off throughout the Caribbean
@@amritsingh5054 Indians were not kidnapped from their homeland; they were recruited after slavery was abolished as the cheapest labour possible to replace the slaves who had mostlly left the plantations or wanted to be paid more than the former slave owners were willing to. They, the Indians could be correctly labelled as cheap labour because they came under contract and offered a wage - meagre as it was. Indians were NEVER slaves - nor were they forced or kidnapped from their homeland.
I believe back then they called it indentured laborers They lied to our ancestors made false promises ,so you can called it what you want
I respect that
@@amritsingh5054 I am not calling it "what I want" -- facts matter. Are you really comparing Indian indentured labourers to black slaves? Geez, talk about being disingenuous. Lets, not re-write history. The indentured Indians were allowed to return to India at the end of their indentureship. Approximately 1/3 returned but the majority stayed on. They stayed because they deemed life in Guyana, Trinidad & Suriname to be much better than what they left behind in India. They were of the Dalits or untouchables caste, wich is the lowest caste in India and were treated worst than dogs. At least in the new world they could shed the low caste system and re-invent themselves.
17:56 - 😨😨😨😲 the art of doing nothing? Wow! A philosophy of life on the island?
Sorry I’m late to this comment, but to CORRECT the people in the video, liming is basically hanging out and chatting, laughing and many more things with other people.
And some people drink beer or wine ( and dem fancy ppl on the party days does drink champagne )
Its about relaxing, taking a break from the sun and heat, sitting under a tree having a water.. talking..
ok? ok? lol
this video is incorrect. the steel pan was not invented in Trinidad and Tobago. It was invented in Trinidad. the steel pan is made not from a piece of steel but from an oil drum and there is only one island in the Caribbean that has oil and that island is Trinidad. Don't ever let anyone tell you otherwise.
you brits compensated the slave *owners* not the laborers. When slavery ended.
best economy in the Caribbean? lies!! St Barth Martinique are richer they are part of france and they use euro as local currency
+B Tte lol you do know what you're saying right? Trinidad has been the richest island in the caribbean by far for many many years. We're rated so in every index world wide. Nothing brings money in like oil does....
+FaddaWolf Yeah right Trinidad is a shit hole filled with prostitutes and thugs you may be have oil but gov leaders fillin up their bank account from oil revenue so please don`t even bother............
+B Tte lol jealous? with all the bullshit u claim is happening, we're still many times richer than your country. your biggest building is like a fucking shack to us LOL!!!!!
+FaddaWolf Yeah whatever if this make you feel happy
+B Tte lol never understood why you other little islands hate Trinidad so much? not our fault we are so much richer. We just made the most of what we have. smh. gotta have more than tourism and agriculture. LOL
wid all di money dem ah get from trinidad dem still struggling,great is di pnm
Get out of here not every dam thing is political some of allu to nuff, people dying like fly but hear you dunce ass .
Had to bring the unc politicsl...
People kinda rude place not accommodating. Didn't like my stay there, won't be going back anytime soon.
Lol where you stay? cause it really depends
you must be an indian. tobagonians don't like Indians. they only like black and white people.
@@trinihammer😂
Ive never had a rude experience there. Beautiful and safe. ❤
Boring😩
Laid back and beautiful ❤