Flanagin Town Bush Tea Tour | Saturday 8 August 2026
Join the National Trust of Trinidad and Tobago for the Flanagin Town Bush Tea Tour, a guided full-day heritage experience exploring rural life, Cocoa Panyol memory, railway heritage, traditional baking, and bush tea knowledge in Central Trinidad.
Taking place on Saturday 8 August 2026, from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m., this tour invites participants to experience Flanagin Town and nearby communities through place, food, objects, stories, and community knowledge.
Participants will explore Brasso Venado and Los Atajos, tour the Cocoa Panyol Museum, visit the old Caparo Railway Station, bake hops in a galvanize oven on a pitch oil stove, and take paart in a Flanagin Town bush tea experience.
Flanagin Town and its surrounding communities carry important stories of rural settlement, cocoa cultivation, transportation, domestic life, and community memory.
The Cocoa Panyol Museum helps preserve this memory through everyday objects. Visit Trinidad identifies the museum as a home-based museum in Flanagin Town, created in 2017, with artefacts dating as far back as the late 1880s. The Couva-Tabaquite-Talparo Regional Corporation describes it as a museum capturing rural life and cocoa heritage through tools, utensils, radios, typewriters, kitchenware, cocoa-making demonstrations, and traditional recipes.
Railway heritage is also central to this landscape. The National Trust records that Flanagin Town Railway Station did not exist when the Caparo Valley line opened in 1898; it was later secured through the efforts of Clifton Flanagin and named in his honour in 1903. The National Trust’s Caparo Railway Station register article explains that the Caparo Valley Railway Line was developed in the 1890s to open up land, support settlement, and provide transport for cultivated lands beyond easy reach of existing roads and railways.
The bush tea experience adds another layer of living heritage. Bush tea and bush medicine traditions in Trinidad and Tobago are connected to plant knowledge, home remedies, family practice, and the passing down of cultural knowledge. UWI Today has discussed the use of plants such as verven, candlestick plant, caraile, and fever grass in Trinidad’s bush tea and “cooling” traditions.
Together, this tour tells a story of Central Trinidad through cocoa, rail, food, plants, family knowledge, and rural community life.
Visitor information
Date: Saturday 8 August 2026
Time: 8:00 a.m. – 4:00 p.m.
Meeting point: Mille Fleurs Heritage House
Cost: Members TT$275 | Non-members TT$325
Lunch add-on: TT$60
What to bring: Comfortable closed-toe shoes, water, sun protection, insect repellent, light rain protection, personal medication, cash for purchases, and a fully charged phone or camera.
Health note:
The bush tea experience is presented as cultural and heritage interpretation, not medical advice. Participants with allergies, medical conditions, pregnancy concerns, or medication interactions should exercise personal caution and ask about ingredients before tasting.
Membership CTA
National Trust members receive the discounted rate of TT$275 for this tour. Become a member to enjoy member pricing and support the preservation of Trinidad and Tobago’s heritage.
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