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a must-see attraction. Flowers and coins are placed before What may be the Caribbean’s largest Hindu celebration
elaborately painted statues of Ganesh, Shiva, Vishnu and takes place on Trinidad in October or November, depend-
other Hindu deities draped in silk and gilded jewels and ing on the moon’s cycles. The Indo-Trinidanian culture is
windows around the building face the open water. Nearby, celebrated with nine days of music and dance culminat-
another deity, the protective god Hanuman, is honored with ing in a fireworks display on the national holiday of Divali,
an 85-foot-high statue at the Dattatreya Yoga Center. when people light candles and lamps honoring the powers
of good and light over evil and darkness.
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