RUMAGIN
A scenic hilltop sanctuary with large pool and view of the Caribbean Sea!
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SERVICES & Nearby ACTIVITIES that can be arranged in advance for EXTRA or as part of a package suited to your own specific interests & needs:
*Provisioning with a Welcome Meal
*Car hire or a day-by-day arrangement with friendly and dependable local driver who's well acquainted with the area
*Nature & Waterfall tours with local guide
*Scuba Safari Adventures with PADI school located on Grafton Beach
*Be part of an SOS (Save our Seaturtles) Nesting or Hatchling Watch
*An all-inclusive day of snorkelling & sailing aboard "Island Girl"
*A Fab Rainforest Jeep Safari Tour
*Or we can arrange a mountain-bike rental for you and/or introduce you to a certified local tour guide committed to the conservation of Tobago's wild places, with a passion for riding anywhere but on the road
*A day trip to Trinidad with local Birding Expert
*In-shore and deep-water half or full day fishing charters with some of Tobago's best!
For visitor information about Tobago, we recommend www.myTobago.info, the definitive tourist guide to Tobago.
"The Galapagos of the West Indies"
Tobago has quite rightly been hailed the Galapagos of the West Indies.
Tobago’s exquisite reefs are home to an explosion of marine life from the microscopic to the majestic: over 1000 species of animals and plants have been identified in and around Tobago’s waters up to a depth of 200 ft (60 meters). Rumagin is about a 10 to 15 minute walk from Back Bay, a small secluded bay between Grafton and Mount Irvine Bay, where snorkeling is supposed to be the best. Also, just a 5-minute walk downhill from the villa, there is a fully equipped PADI dive shop on Grafton Beach offering introductory and refresher courses.
Since 1776, the island’s Main Ridge Forest Reserve has been legally protected, making it the first tropical rainforest to be legally protected in the western hemisphere. Rumagin is ideally situated at the beginning of the north-side road, which means the operators of all the big tours will be going right by your door on their way up to the Rain Forest, and you’ll be treated to lots of stops at quaint bays and secluded waterfalls all the way up the Caribbean coast.
Tobago is one of the few places left in the world to which critically endangered populations of Hawksbill, Green and giant leatherback sea turtles return every year to lay their eggs. Rumagin is about a 5-minute walk away from Great Courland Bay, and the long sandy beach there is a prime nesting site.
Tobago is home to 210 species of Birds and this villa is ideally situated, only about a 10 minute walk to a 200-acre Wildlife Sanctuary with bird-watching trails.
In December, for two months, waves are usually the biggest attraction in the area. Rumagin is about a 10-minute walk away from Mt. Irvine Beach, a favourite with surfers worldwide, where there are kayaks and motorized sea-craft to rent.
The PGA Championship Mt. Irvine Golf Course is just up the hill.
The proximity of the villa to Grafton Beach and Grand Courland Resorts, two of Tobago’s larger all-inclusive hotels makes booking this spacious 3-bedroom villa the perfect choice for those in your party who want to keep their air-fare and accommodation separate, to use up their air miles.
The Plymouth Jazz Festival
Also, please note close proximity of these self-catering apartments/villa to the Plymouth Jazz Festival, Tobago’s biggest annual event: Tobago hosted its first Jazz Festival in 2005 and it was such a huge success – featuring big-name stars like Sting and Stevie Wonder – that it has since become an annual event. And hopefully, one day, it’ll be an institution. Just like the long-standing Sunday School street-pan party, held weekly in Buccoo, is: a place where locals and visitors can interact, people-watch, join in a really big jam session. More so than Carnival (a far more intense celebration in Trinidad, Tobago’s more cosmopolitan sister isle), in only its fifth year, the Plymouth Jazz Festival has already become Tobago’s biggest yearly event.