Events

In Barbados, the one annual party you don't want to miss is the Crop Over Festival. For five weeks every summer, Bajans gather to celebrate their culture, celebrate their heritage, and just simply celebrate.

Crop Over Then and Now

If you're planning on a visit to Holetown, Barbados, anyway, try to book your travel for the week of February 17, during the Holetown Festival. An annual festival held each year since 1977 to commemorate the founding of Holetown, the Holetown Festival is one of the most enjoyable annual events in Barbados.

History of the Holetown Festival

Bridgetown, the bustling capital of Barbados, is known not only for its wonderfully relaxing Carlisle Bay Beach and its picturesque synagogues, churches and cathedrals, but also for being home to the world renowned Barbados Jazz Festival.

Oistins - popular legend says that the name is a corruption of "Austin's" - is a small fishing village and tourist hangout in Southern Barbados and is perhaps most well known for its annual Fish Festival.

Once a year - during an otherwise fairly peaceful Easter weekend - tourists and locals alike get together to celebrate the area's fishing industry and, of course, to sample simply amazing fish dishes like flying fish cutters - sandwiches - fish-stuffed breadfruit rolls and Bajan salt fish cakes.