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The Antilleans are a festive people and know how to celebrate Carnival like the Brazilians. Year after year, the 24 local Carnival groups present their colorful costumes, painstakingly hand-sewn over months, and festively decorated floats. Days before the start of the grand spectacle, seating is set up along the roadside to get as close as […]
Meet Curaçao’s most famous beverage vendor. Day in, day out, you’ll see him tirelessly bustling around the busy Brievengat intersection in Willemstad; from morning till night, in the blazing sun, on the hot asphalt: Rolando Adriana – a friendly, tall, young man with deep black skin, a radiant smile with dazzling white teeth, and his […]
Around the Spanish Water, you’ll repeatedly see sections of the coastline covered in shrub-like plants with distinctive stilt roots: mangroves. Their attractiveness, due to their many, rather bizarre, branching roots, isn’t exactly striking: no enchanting floral display, just a simple, green canopy of leaves. But these bare stilts are essential: the survival of the mangroves […]
I’ve been toying with the idea of writing a travel guide about Curaçao for quite some time now, because our guests are often surprised that there isn’t actually a current guidebook for the island. The other day, I turned onto Caracasbaaiweg, the traffic was flowing so smoothly, and it occurred to me: “There must be […]
Since September 15th, Curaçao has a new attraction – the Savonet Museum. The Savonet Manor, completely restored at a cost of 6.7 million guilders, is located in Christoffel Park, the island’s most important national park, and is now open to local visitors and tourists alike. For a rental fee of 25 florins, visitors can borrow […]
To commemorate the slave revolt of 1795, the famous freedom fighter Tula was declared a national hero in August 2010. On August 17, 1795, dozens of slaves from the Knip plantation, led by Tula, refused to work. Slaves from neighboring plantations joined the uprising, which was brutally suppressed within three months. Slavery was not finally […]
