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Princes' Town to St. Augustine.

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Distance
44.48 mi
Elevation gain
1,178 ft
Technical difficulty
Easy
Elevation loss
1,368 ft
Max elevation
200 ft
TrailRank 
32
Min elevation
-164 ft
Trail type
One Way
Coordinates
1885
Uploaded
February 26, 2013
Recorded
February 2013
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near Princes Town, Princes Town (Republic of Trinidad and Tobago)

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This is my daily trek to the University of the West Indies at St. Augustine. The route that I mapped is "routine." It could be made a lot more avdenturous by going via the Southern Main Road from Chaguanas to Curepe or doing "the scenic route" from Princes' Town to Mayaro and then up the Manzanilla Road into Sangre Grande and then down to St. Augustine via the Eastern Main Road. The latter route is quite a lovely drive but a lot longer...
St. Augustine is a town in the north-west of Trinidad and Tobago. It is the site of one of the four campuses of the University of the West Indies. St. Augustine is home to thousands of university students and is now being converted to a university town as the economy of the area is fueled significantly by the spending power of the 60 000 plus university population. Many houses in the general university area have been converted to students' accommodation, but due to the lack of fee regulation, they are generally more than double the cost of university housing. Four of the five halls of residence provided by the University are located here, namely St. John's Hall, Milner Hall, Canada Hall, and Trinity Hall.
St. John's Road in St. Augustine is the main access road for Mount St. Benedict, one of the notable, historic sites in Trinidad and Tobago. On the Mount, you can find a Catholic Church along with a monastery and a factory where yogurt is made. On this road, there is also the St. John the Baptist Roman Catholic Church. The church is opposite to a Community Centre, which underwent renovations and now houses a new field for the residents to engage in football, one of the more popular sports of this area.
St. Augustine is also home to the Hugh Wooding Law School, a prestigious law school which attracts many inter-island students of the Caribbean and beyond. In close proximity to the law school is the University of the West Indies, Seismic Research Center, which is the official source of information on earthquakes and volcanoes in the English-speaking Caribbean.

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