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Baby beach

by Twan

Baby Beach is a beach in Aruba. The bay is in the 30s of the 20th century largely artificially created by employees of the Lago refinery, when it will have filled with sand and the beach was. The beach is located high in the southeast of the island near San Nicolas, is one of the tourist attractions of the island. The name was coined Baby Beach because it is extremely suitable for children. The beach is located in a small bay, and after just under 20 meters from the coastline still 1 meter deep. The water is clear and blue, which is like a popular snorkeling spot.

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Eagle beach

by Twan

Eagle Beach is a beach on the island of Aruba.Eagle Beach is considered the most beautiful beach in the Caribbean. At the Bounty Beach are several hotel chains that are separated only by a promenade. At the end of the beach in the north is the famous dividiviboom that much to see in commercials for the island of Aruba.Eagle Beach at sunsetEagle Beach is also called the Low Rise area. The other area, the High Rise area lies north of Palm Beach Eagle Beach. The distinction in these areas is in the construction of the hotels on the beaches. Palm Beach is mainly high-rise hotels along Eagle Beach, this is primarily low-rise hotels (less than four floors).

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Climbing the Hooiberg

by Twan

The Haystack (Dutch: Hooiberg) is a conspicuous hill (165 meters) in the center of Aruba. It is a conical hill topped by several towers. The Haystack is visible from almost the whole island, and has a striking appearance as the lonely hill above the plain. Although the Haystack previously (erroneously) as the highest hill was considered. Jamanota the hill is the highest, with 188 meters.

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Arikok National Park

by Twan

A famous attraction was the Natural Bridge, the longest natural bridge in the Caribbean. On September 2, 2005, this collapsed, probably due to the long erosive action of sea water and wind. Smaller natural bridges are also still present on the island, which is an addition to the remains of the collapsed bridge.

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Alto Vista Chapel

by Twan

Alto Vista Chapel is a small Catholic chapel also known as "Pilgrims Church" that stands on the hills above the north shore of the sea and to the northeast of the town of Noord, on the island of Aruba, 27 km north of the coast of Venezuela. The church painted on the outside in stark bright yellow colour makes it a conspicuous religious monument for people to visit. The present Chapel of Alto Vista was completed in 1952 and stands in the same location as the original chapel, that was built by Domingo Silvestre, the Venezuelan missionary from Santa Ana de Coro, Venezuela, in 1750.The Alto Vista Chapel was stated to be the location where conversion of Aruban Indians to Christianity started and the religious history of Aruba began.

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Dive with Clive!

by klasher

We did 6 days of diving with Clive from Dive Aruba. Small dive groups (7 max) and long bottom times is what it is all about. We saw many of the larger dive operations getting to a site after us and would be gone by the time we exited.

Casibari Rock Formation

by grandmaR

This formation is located in the center of the island. Bob saw it on his land tour on our first visit to the island and he climbed it. I have not been there myself. His pictures reminded me of the huge boulders at the Baths on Virgin Gorda (photo 5)Casibari are composed of two sections, the biggest one is Casibari and the second one is Ayo. Ayo formation does not have any of the steps or walking trails making the less popular of the two, but there are rock drawings, dating back thousands of years at this site. At Casibari, there are walking trails and steps to the top, but even it is definitely not handicapped accessible. There are narrow tunnels and with the combination of steep steps, only allowing the passing of one individual. If there are a lot of people there (like when cruise ships are in town), it may take a good amount of time to get up and down.It is free.

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Collapsed Natural Bridge

by grandmaR

My husband went on the tour of Aruba while I was snorkeling. We knew of course that the large natural bridge on Aruba had collapsed in the early morning hours of September 2, 2005, but there were still some smaller bridge like formations one of which is in the third picture. Aruba has seven other smaller natural bridge formations. The original BIG bridge was 100 feet long, and 25 feet above the sea. It was one of the most dramatic of the coral formations in the Caribbean. Bob said they had a road on it.

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Rope Swinging of the Mi Dushi

by TravelChick13

This was an awesome time in Aruba for me, sicne i was adopted when i was 12, i learned how to count at this age, now i am 14 and i am the smartest person in all my special ed classes. this was so cool. i went off the swing on the back of some really cute guy. he did a flip. my advice?... let go of the swing or else be ready to smack into the boat. haha!!

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Natural Bridge

by kazander

The Natural Bridge is a very popular tourist attraction in Aruba. The bridge is made of coral that was carved out by the pounding waves. It extends 100 feet acrcoss and is 25 feet high. When I went many years ago, we took a tour around the island and this was one of the stops. I remember being SO excited to visit there. (I think I had seen a picture of it in one of my parents brochures) If you enlarge the photo I am the black and red dot :)

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