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 Aviation Week
Pirates Week
 Festival
Taste of Cayman
Cook-Off
Fishing Tournament
Batabano Carnival
Queen's Birthday
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Annual Events in the Cayman Islands
Pirates Week
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| The annual Pirates Week festival is held during the last week of October, and kicks off the winter tourist season. The Cayman Islands have a colourful seafaring past which is celebrated with pride during this national event. You should come prepared for days and nights of pirate parades, costume contests, music, fireworks, sports competitions and craft fairs. Don't miss the week's kick-off - a mock pirate landing by bands of rowdy pirates who arrest the Governor in George Town Harbour, followed by a float parade of colouful costumes and local steel drum bands. In the evening the roads are closed in George Town as the whole Island parties the night away, dancing under the stars to locals and guest bands, and enjoying the local food on offer. |
Each day during the week the districts of West Bay, Bodden Town, East End, Northside, and George Town take it turns to host a district heritage day, with local skills and crafts on show as well as a plentiful feast and an evening of live music.
It's all in commemoration of the Islands' early days when they Cayman Islands were plundered by bands of pirates who stopped to make merry and bury their treasures. |
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