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 Sunbeds & Palapas on the Beach by SabrinaSummerville
There are, however, one or two real downsides to the strong wind.
One is that you don't realise you are getting sunburned, as you feel pretty cool all the time.
The second is that you may be ( as I was) hit by a sunbed on the beach. There was I, sitting up watching the brown pelicans dive for fish, when suddenly.....whack!.....the back of my sunbed blew forward and hit me headlong in the side of my face, cheek, ear. I got a nice little bruise there too.
One other thing I learned about the wind from chatting to locals - Aruba is not in the hurricane belt, but when there is a hurrticane locally it sucks all the air from Aruba and this lovely wind just disappears for a few days. At those times the air is suffocating and it's difficult to catch a breath. Leave a Comment
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 Crashing Waves by SabrinaSummerville
At the North of the island there are incredibly dangerous currents. We sat in the jeep and watched as the sea approached from two if not three different directions and turned to tumultuous waves that crashed together as the currents met.
I also watched a couple of men as they came here to fish, stayed twenty minutes or so, then walked away.
Do not swim, fish, windsurf, or do anything else water related at this part of the island. Leave a Comment
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 Dead Boa Constrictor by SabrinaSummerville
However, in recent years other types of snakes have been getting into the country in deliveries of sand and cement. In particular the boa constrictor is a snake that's causing a lot of worry to the Aruban government as they cause a lot of damage to animals by strangling them. The government is working really hard to eradicate these stowaway snakes. Leave a Comment
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I had thought that travel to Bonaire or Curacao from Aruba would be pretty simple and that they would have a ferry, turns out that they aren't that close to one another and the only option is to fly between them. When I inquired about daytrips, they said it ran between $300-$600 dollars to get to Curacao, guess it will have to wait for another trip. The flight from Aruba to Curacao is about 30 minutes, Bonaire about 35 minutes. Leave a Comment
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Aruba is touted as having near perfect weather but they do get rain, the day we flew in it had rained the entire day. For the 5 days we were there, it rained every day, never enough to ruin your trip, but enough that I needed an umbrella at least one of the days. The rain tends to come in quickly and go quickly, October-January is when they get the most rain, an average of 18 inches per year. Leave a Comment
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 Coconut Tree by amapola66
(anyone have any coconut falling on head tales?!)
"Palm Trees - A word of caution. The coconuts are real. If you sit under a palm tree, don't sit under the coconuts. The ripe ones will fall when they are ready. Bonk!!! An easy way to open them up is to throw them down on a large pointy rock until they crack. You lose most of the milk, but you don't need tools".
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 KLM's Dirty Crockery by amapola66
The childrens 'Activity Pack' is a joke. (Some 3D glasses - hmm for what exactly?) a few crayons and not much else.
Toilets unclean & the sink blocked & full of other peoples muck for most of the journey. No bin.
See - photo of one of the plastic cups we were supposed to drink from (already used & not properly washed). This pic does not do the dirt justice.
I am tiny but they crammed so many people on that plane the seats were too close together & I suffered cramps a few hours into the flight.
Headphones did not work (for the one channel one screen TV). There were no games of any description.
Amazingly, KB's seat would not stay in an upright position so he had to lean back at an angle on the person behind for the whole flight even in take off (illegal surely?) & landing, or hold the seat up forceably using a legbending/forward leaning /handgripping contortion.
I'm sure there is more but I am trying to erase this journey from my memory!
A hint to the company :
"Please try to remind your staff that they are being paid to do this journey, whereas we (the customers) are paying for the 'pleasure'.
This flight was nicnamed 'the dreadful journey from hell' for the rest of our holiday.
Return journey in part 2. Leave a Comment
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 that's NOT my wimpy suzuki!!! by vrage
****other than that -watch out for poorly made drinks, with hardly any booze in them!!!!!!!
(for $4. in town)**** Leave a Comment
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 KLM - MD 11 by amapola66
They still managed to forget our veggy meals (booked ahead) & had originally seated me & the Small Person in different rows (had also confirmed seating arrangements before flight). We took our own food this time!
The plane was totally overbooked & they tried a VERY hard sell to get us to stay in Aruba for longer. Originally delighted we were ready to accept when they let it slip that they couldn't promise to get my sister back from Amsterdam for the last leg of her journey. We declined as we felt we wanted to get the return 'dreadful journey from hell' over with & were tired having already flown from Venezuela that morning.
Onflight food was still totally disgusting. Veggy breakfast consisted of a stale ricecake, cut in half and wrapped in clingfilm, some off fruit salad (around 4 pieces of old fruit), a dry cracker and water. There was juice available from the hostess, but she zoomed expertly past so fast, lips frozen into a stiff smile, she missed our row of seats entirely.
I know it is a huge plane full of a very large amount of people, so a hard job for the stewards, but maybe KLM could provide more staff? Also, the staff are getting paid, we the customers, are paying!
KLM should check out the veggy food on Monarch Airlines which is far superior even for short haul journeys to Spain from the UK.
Handy tip : There is a 20 kilo weight limit on the return journey. We were OK, but I saw many people rearranging their cases in Aruba Airport.
Another handy tip : Take your own food, you will need it. Leave a Comment
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 animated-beach-photo-aruba by RoyJava
Find most of the sharks on more of the East side of the Aruba island, where the island dumps a lot of its trash. Visit the Andicouri Bay, or try the eyecatcher of the Natural Bridge. Here the tourists may watch meat-food to sharks so swimming here isn't that realistic ...
For shark-lovers; you can get really close to sleeping nurse and sand sharks at the Shark Caves. Usually they sleep during the day and, allowing humans to get closer you may even touch them ... though better leave the sharks and donot bother them ... heehee Leave a Comment
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