Barbados to host Golden Jubilee of annual Crop Over Festival, know deets

The island has been celebrating the festivities since as early as May, and in honor of the festival’s 50th celebration, the Barbados Tourism Authority has outlined 50 things to do in the country during the 2024 Crop Over Festival.

Thursday, 20th June 2024

Barbados to host Golden Jubilee of annual Crop Over Festival, know deets (PC - Facebook)

Barbados is all set to celebrate 50 years of the sweetest summer festival – Crop Over. The annual festival will honour 50 years of life, heritage, culture and endless vibes from July 6 to August 7, 2024. The island has been celebrating the festivities since as early as May, and in honor of the festival’s 50th celebration, the Barbados Tourism Authority has outlined 50 things to do in the country during the 2024 Crop Over Festival. These things include watching the highly anticipated World Cup T20 final match on June 29, which will surely be ‘Out of this World.’ People can attend mini-events like Crop Over Sweet Lime, experience a day in the morning, attend a breakfast party, watch kiddies' adornment, explore underwater Barbados, and the list goes on. Visitors can also end the day filled with festival activities by watching the most breath taking sunset and taking a photo of the cherry tree hill.

The fifty things to do in Barbados during Crop Over Festival 2024 are as follows:

Attend a Crop Over Sweet Lime
Watch a World Cup T20 Match
Witness the Delivery of the Last Canes
Jump in a Kadooment Band
Experience Foreday Monday
Learn to Wuk Up
Add a bashment Soca Song to the playlist
Attend a Breakfast Party
Watch Kiddies Kadooment
Experience an All-Inclusive Party
Sing your heart out at a Soca Concert
Enjoy a party cooler cruise
Dance with Mother Sally and the Tuk Band
Learn how to stick lick
Support local at Bridgetown Market
Take a walking food tour of the island’s capital
Find your name on the Builders of Barbados Wall
Visit Rihanna Drive
Explore Underwater Barbados
Eat your way through Worthing Square
Watch a Barbadian sunset
Take a photo of Cherry Tree Hill
Enjoy a relaxing East Coast Drive
Watch horse racing at the Garrison Savannah
Visit St John Parish Church
Spend a Friday at Oistins
Discover Harrison’s Cave Eco-Adventure Park
Take a picture at Gun Hill Signal Station
Taste local chocolates
Discover motorsport island
Explore Animal Flower Cave
Do a Rum Shop Hop
Indulge in Delicious Cuisine at a Bottomless Brunch
Sail around Barbados’ picturesque coastline
Enjoy a seaside lunch
Relax in the natural pools of Bathsheba
Go on an E-bike tour
Venture through walkers' reserve
Release your adrenaline junkie off-roading
Have a farm-to-table experience
Taste the world’s oldest rum
Take a rum tour
Learn how to make soap
Wander through Coco Hill Forest
Tour the island on the Bajan Bus Tour
Take a pottery class
Visit the monument to the Barbadian family
Hike Chalky Mount
Learn how to surf
Play a game of road tennis

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