1.    Store Bay: one of Tobago’s most popular beaches, great for swimming and snorkelling. Great craft shopping and restaurant on site, and glass-bottom boat tours leave from here

2.    Fort Milford: a perfect spot for enjoying a Tobago sunset overlooking the Leeward coast, this fort was built in 1777 by the British. Only a few cannon and walls remain

3.    Pigeon Point Heritage Park: this beach with its distinctive jetty and carat-thatched cabana is a busy and vibrant spot, and a prime party location. Good food, shopping, and watersports opportunities. Some glass-bottom boat tours depart here for Buccoo Reef

4.    Buccoo Reef & Nylon Pool: a must on any visit to Tobago. Stretching from Pigeon Point to Buccoo Bay, an arc of five reef flats is home to some 40 species of coral. It is rich in marine life, from tiny jewelfish to reef sharks and barracuda. The Nylon Pool is a warm, metre-deep sandbar in the lagoon. It’s said swimming here will make you feel ten years younger, and lovers who kiss underwater are destined to remain together forever. Glass-bottom boat tours depart Pigeon Point and Store Bay twice daily

5.    Kimme Museum (“The Castle”): workshop and gallery of German-born sculptor Luise Kimme, who carves three-metre-high Tobago dancers and folklore characters from solid slabs of wood. Open Sundays 10am–2pm, small entrance fee: 639-0257, www.luisekimme.com

6.    Grafton Caledonia Wildlife Sanctuary: a former cocoa estate which, following 1963’s Hurricane Flora, evolved into a bird sanctuary. Offers nature trails and scenic hiking

7.    Fort Bennett: a beautiful lookout point over Stonehaven Bay, complete with a little pavilion and small garden

8.    Bon Accord Lagoon: a popular spot for birdwatchers; some boatmen take visitors to a small coral white-sand beach inside the lagoon called No Man’s Land for barbecues

9.    Plymouth: the Courlander Monument is a striking sculpture commemorating 17th-century settlers from Courland (now part of Latvia). Also visit Fort James and the Mystery Tombstone with its cryptic inscription: “She was a mother without knowing it, and a wife without letting her husband know it, except by her kind indulgences to him.”
 

10.   Botanical Gardens: its vast grounds with majestic trees and captivating views provide the chance to relax among brilliant flambouyants, silk cotton trees, and avenues of royal palms

11.   Fort King George & Tobago Museum: Tobago’s main fort, perched at 140m (460ft) above sea level, with magnificent views of Scarborough, Bacolet, up the Windward coast, and south over Lowlands. The site, perhaps Tobago’s best preserved, includes a military cemetery, old chapel and cell block. The Tobago Museum displays the history of Tobago’s early Amerindian era and colonial days

12.   Adventure Farm & Nature Reserve: this 12-acre organic estate grows a variety of fruits. It supports a range of birdlife and a butterfly garden, and is shelter for endangered species

13.   Arnos Vale River Estate & Waterwheel: beautiful and rustic, featuring one of the best-preserved colonial-era waterwheels (1857) on the islands, great bird watching opportunities, and several nature trails, one to an Amerindian site and old slave village

14.   Main Ridge: rising to 576m (1,890ft), this spinal ridge runs down two-thirds of the island. Declared a protected forest reserve in 1776, it is the oldest in the western hemisphere. A favourite trail is Gilpin Trace, an easy 45-minute walk to a waterfall. A certified guide is strongly recommended

15.   Charlotteville: legendary for its peace and beauty, it is an excellent dive centre with its own dive shops

16.   Granby Point: relaxing stop-off point on your way up the windward coast. A beachfront area and playground lie below the fort

17.   Argyle Falls: Tobago’s premier waterfall and a highlight of the Windward coast drive. A 15-minute forest walk brings you to the stunning three-tiered waterfall. A guide, available at the visitor centre, is recommended. Entrance fee, www.argylewaterfall.com

18.   Speyside: known for its fantastic diving. There are magnificent views from the Speyside Lookout. The village has remained charmingly subdued despite its diving mecca status. There’s a Tourist office, good dive shops, watersports operators and good restaurants

19.   Little Tobago: just 2km² (1.2 sq miles), a trekkers’ and bird watcher’s idyll. Once a haven for imported Birds of Paradise from New Guinea which were wiped out by hurricanes, the island is now a bird sanctuary. Glass-bottom boat tours (TT$150) depart Blue Waters Inn, Speyside, twice daily

20.   Flagstaff Hill: at the northern tip of Tobago, reached via an unpaved road from the crest of the hill before descending into Charlotteville. It was the site of an American military lookout and radio tower during World War II. The view is panoramic, encompassing St Giles Islands and the village of Charlotteville.

 

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