Carnival 2K12, Port of Spain

To say that carnival is important in Trinidad & Tobago is a major understatement.
Everything seems to revolve around it all year long and when it comes around it hits you
with a bang (and the boom of the soca beat).

Revellers in a moving line to get on the wee wee truck, which is
constantly moving at the pace of the band.

Hailing a cab - hope it has space for wings!

Having taken in one band from ground level, we
escaped the heat and thumping noise and retreated to our
colleague's apartment thirteen floors above the city. It
was a great way to take in the parade without wearing
the boys out.

Even thirteen floors up the soca music still vibrated
through your body. Luckily, the boys got into it!

A band proceeding down the road.  This year there were 76
small, medium and large bands that were registered. They parade around
the city all day.  The large bands can, at their most, be up to
five thousand people strong. And to think that the image above is just
one band and probably not at full strength at this time of day.

Our first apartment in Port of Spain was on the fourth
floor of the building on the right. While the view would
have been amazing, I'm relived we're now much further
from the noise!