Panorama Photo

Heading to Guayaguyare (what a beautiful name!) felt pretty much like heading to the end of the world. From the southern regional hub of San Fernando the road first heads east to Mayaro, making countless turns seemingly connecting "every little house" along the way and passing every village, which makes the drive longer than the actual distance would suggest.

We went to Guayaguayare for a family event. When reading a bit about the seemingly unremarkable "end of the road" village, I learned that this is where Christopher Columbus first "saw" Trinidad, before landing further west in Moruga.

Centuries later it was at Guayaguare, where first discovery of oil was made, the beginning of the the nation's dominant industry.

End of the road or beginning of things?

"Nothing special" in this pano, but I quite liked the arrangement of the coconut trees.