5 Great Caribbean Events to Visit in December

Five great events that you can visit in the Caribbean during December include the Bahamas International Film Festival, St. Kitts Carnival, the Cayman Jazz Festival, the Bahamas Junkanoo, and St. Lucia’s Heineken Kalalu World Music Festival.

When most people hear about the Caribbean, they picture beautiful palm-fringed beaches and exotic cuisine. Whether you choose to go to the relaxing island of Carriacou or to the unspoiled Petite Martinique, every Caribbean experience can be likened to an escape to paradise. Apart from the natural beauty that the islands have to offer, guests and tourists can also expect several exciting activities and events that are sure to complete their vacation. Here are some of the events that you can visit during the month of December.

The Bahamas International Film Festival

The Bahamas features its own version of Hollywood’s glitz and glamor at the Bahamas International Film Festival, also known as BIFF. Movie buffs and Hollywood fans will love this fabulous event. The film festival runs between the 6th and 13th of December and is known all over the world for drawing Hollywood directors and superstars like Sean Connery, Nicolas Cage, Johnny Depp and many others. The BIFF program includes special screenings, film making and scriptwriting workshops, discussions, tributes and gala events.

St. Kitts Carnival

Many Caribbean Islands celebrate island culture and commemorating past events. Iconic to Caribbean carnivals boast elaborate costumes and decors, street parties and colorful parades. St. Kitts Carnival is distinct for its holiday festivities and commemoration of national pride at the same time. It runs from the middle of December until January 2. Guests will be enthralled by the j’ouvert, grand parade, music, numerous food fairs, pageants and street parties.

The Cayman Jazz Festival

Although relatively new compared to other historic festivals, the Cayman Jazz Festival is an unforgettable experience for music lovers and for anyone seeking a relaxing night of music and entertainment. Big names on the international music scene like Alicia Keys, Oleta Adams and Peabo Bryson as well as unique local musicians are sure to captivate guests.

The Bahamas Junkanoo

The Junkanoo is not your average street parade. It runs on different days with each highlighting different events. The Junior Junkanoo Parade is held on the second Thursday of December and features the impressive talents of young Bahamian Junkanoo dancers. Guests and visitors will be amazed at the skill of these young dancers whose talent and love for dancing has been ingrained and taught to them since childhood. Another the Junkanoo parade is held on December 26. Known as the Boxing Day Junkanoo parade, this event showcases the best Junkanoo performers, spectacular costumes and distinctive musical accompaniments. The parade is considered the largest non-religious festival in the Bahamas and starts at 2 in the morning immediately following midnight mass to celebrate Christmas.

St. Lucia’s Heineken Kalalu World Music Festival

Music lovers and enthusiasts will be drawn to the island of St. Lucia for the Heineken Kalalu World Music Festival. This musical festival prides itself with a colorful amalgam of different musical genres, traditions and styles and showcases all these on the oceanfront. The festival runs for four nights and is a multi-ethnic celebration of musical diversity that is enough to captivate any music aficionado.

The Caribbean is not only a great place to stay for a vacation but has its own set of events that every visitor will look forward to.

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My out of town at Pattaya

It was quite a loooooooooong time since my last post. I’m terribly sorry to my dear readers, friends and droppers for not keeping up with their drops; however, I knew that I’ll make it up to all them once I get all my time back. Well, that’s a bit dramatic but I certainly was the busiest creature on Earth in the past three weeks. First, classes started and I had to keep up with the submission of syllabi and paper work deadlines (expect the lesson planning fuss). And second, my boyfriend came to spend his two weeks’ vacation with me (as you know, we live a long distance relationship) and thus, work and relationship together can eat all my time up and leave my blogs mainly at the corner of my head. But that beats me not. I’ve got all the stuff I want to blog perfectly organized in my mind.

We spent our first weekend at Pattaya. This is the first time for my boyfriend to visit Thailand and he was very curious to explore the city of Pattaya. He heard a lot about it from his friends back in Germany who had had chance to have fun in the place. So we went.

We rented a condo for two nights and the place just turned out perfect, overlooking the sea.

We chose to stay at the outskirt of the beach city called “Jomtien” so we could enjoy more peace and not bumped against a lot of tourists on either side.

This is the guy that I am so in love with. He’s Filipino-German.



I was bragging to him that I’ll make a good photographer. Just see how I captured this beauty of masculine.

I took this photo of him after he had his toe nails done while I had foot massage (I wasn’t happy with the massage though. I hurt my shin because the old lady who gave me a massage was simply scratching her calloused hands on my skin. Yet she was expensive, urggh! My honey was right. I should have gone to a massage parlor instead just on the ground floor of the condo).



I had my back on the camera. I was looking for something.

Yeah, I was seeing the banana boat and was thinking how fun it must be to get a ride. I wanted to have a ride. But Honey said “no”. His practical side ruled.

So I was smiling back at him knowing that he was taking photos of me.




It felt like Bay Watch. Oh, how I loved that show.