chances are you have not heard Peppercorn Day. A holiday in Bermuda, Peppercorn day be the strangest vacation in the Caribbean. The stretch of 1797, when a group of Freemasons began renting the Old State House in St. George, the amount of pepper. In 1816 began the holiday tradition. Every year close on Wednesday 23 April, amid the pomp and circumstance of a horse-drawn carriage will bring the governor to collect pepper.
While Peppercorn Day exclusive Bermuda, Caribbean share many similar holidays. For example, while the specifics differ, many islands heritage is celebrated national holidays. In Dominica, at the end of October ushers in Creole Week. Seven of the Creole Heritage Day, held every year in a different village, and paying homage to the village a unique and important aspects of the citizens. Island-wide the biggest celebration of the Creole Week Day. Everyone dresses up in traditional Creole fashion and enjoying Creole-style parades, music and food.
Similarly, Jamaica Maroon Day (January 6) tribute to the Maroons, freed slaves fled to the southern coast of Jamaica start their lives again. Their ancestors still live there, and the largest host a celebration of the holiday, the Accompong Maroon Festival. Drawing visitors from around the world, this case was a huge attendance of 16,000 people in 2005, celebration includes traditional dancing, singing and rituals.
Then there is the Indian Arrival Day (May 30) in Trinidad and Tobago. Despite only made official in the 1990s, the island's large Indian population celebrated the holidays for many years. It commemorates the arrival of the contracted servants from India.
Many Caribbean countries celebrate their independence conquering nations, such as Spain, the Netherlands or France. National celebrations in honor of the heroes who fought for independence common as Errol Barrow Day in Barbados. But the island still retains the freedom to invaders such as Bastille Day, the day of the Queen and the Prince of Wales's birthday. Emancipation and the abolition of slavery in the celebrations of national holidays many islands.
Perhaps the biggest issue of freedom of religion Caribbean origin. Respect patron saints days can be found throughout the islands, but nowhere to the extent Puerto Rico. Puerto Rico is still the patron saint of the city's own freedom it entails. However, the most important day of Szent János, celebrating the island's patron saint and namesake of the capital, San Juan. Beach party people end up walking back toward the ocean, and falls into the water to honor the tradition of baptism Szent János.
Christmas in the Caribbean could be more enthusiastic than anywhere else in the world. The twelve days of Christmas is still celebrated in many islands, culminating in the January 6 Epiphany Guadeloupe, epiphany start of the carnival season, which lasts until Lent. The Carnival reaches its climax on Shrove Tuesday when businesses close for five days, so everyone can participate in the parades.
Even the weather has a place of freedom. The US Virgin Islands, on the fourth Monday in July Hurricane Prayer Day. Marking the beginning of the hurricane season, it's a low-key day for people to go to church to pray to the hurricanes pass them, or at least spare the lives and buildings. If all goes well, Hurricane Thanksgiving Day occurs on the third Monday of October.
festive contribute greatly to the vibrant culture of the Caribbean. If you are planning a trip there, you go, you can participate in one. There is no better way to truly experience the culture of the island.