Peñal
Penal is a town in south Trinidad, Trinidad and Tobago.
Penal is a town in south Trinidad, Trinidad and Tobago. It lies south of San Fernando, Princes Town, and Debe, and north of Moruga, Morne Diablo and Siparia. Penal is noted as a heartland of Hindu and Indo-Trinidadian culture.
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Worth seeing in and around Peñal
One place within 25 km that the world writes about, in the order of how widely: the ones a visitor has heard of first, then the ones only a local would name.
- 01Banwari Trace
Banwari Trace, an Archaic site in southwestern Trinidad, is the oldest archaeological site in the Caribbean.
1.5 km · archaeological site in Trinidad and Tobago · Wikipedia
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Getting to Peñal
- Airports
- Piarco (POS), 50 km · A.N.R. Robinson (TAB), 129 km · Maurice Bishop (GND), 207 km
- Port of Spain → Peñal56 km · quickest by road, 1h 24m · $5–7
- Scarborough → Peñal138 km · quickest by road, 4h 48m · $18–24
- Saint George's → PeñalTrain, bus, flight, ferry and road, side by side
- Plan a tripFrom anywhereThe planner compares every way there from wherever you are.
Road and air are today’s quick answer; timetabled trains, buses and ferries load on the results page from the operators’ feeds.
No local-transport research exists yet for Peñal
Our researched notes are written from a sourced entry: every shared taxi, boat and village bus with its operator, its rule, its fare and the year we saw it, and what could not be confirmed. Nobody has done that work for Peñal. What is above is what we hold from open sources; nothing here pretends to be more.
- Get inFrom Port-of-Spain, a water taxi can be taken across the Gulf of Paria, and docks at the Water Taxi Terminal on Lady Hailes Avenue.
From Wikivoyage: San Fernando, CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us; that article was last edited 2026-09.
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If you know how people move in Peñal – the stand, the rule, the fare – tell us, and the note gets an entry.