Oranjestad, Aruba Travel Blogs

Our crappy apartment in Aruba
Aug 6, 2007 (18 photos)

... was not paid yet, but I extended it'. Relieve, that we can go home. With the tickets in our hot little hands, we explore Oranjestad. We go for a local beer. And a meal: grouper and surf and turf. VERY nice. Exploring the city some more: local Rodeo ...

Hubby, you lost your tank
Aug 8, 2007 (3 photos)

... with a dictionary and grammar. Papiamento, or Papiamentu, is the primary language spoken on the Caribbean islands of Aruba, Bonaire, and Curaçao. Papiamento is a creole language whose lexicon is drawn firstly from Portuguese and Spanish (about 60%) ...

This is goodbye
Aug 16, 2007 (1 photos)

... to the daily mails AND our crappy appartment.  So great that I already started sopping yesterday. It was a nice last day in Oranjestad. We went shopping. And, no, I did not buy you presents. Maybe if you just had your birthday OR I stay at your ...

To car or not to car
Aug 9, 2007 (9 photos)

... call.  At 10h30, we step back downstairs: nobody home. So, even if they would call, that would not help. Welcome to Aruba, have a nice day. We start walking to the city to look for a car ourselves, when Ingrid passes us by car and says, come ...

Jehovah's witnesses
Aug 7, 2007 (13 photos)

So this as Aruba: Aruba_map.jpg; we are staying 10 minutes walk from the center of Oranjestad, the capital. Aruba is a 32 km-long island of the Lesser Antilles in the Caribbean Sea, 27 km north of the Paraguaná Peninsula, Falcón State, ...

The north of the island
Aug 11, 2007 (9 photos)

Today, we go and sniffle north. See Aruba.jpg. We drive to the California light house: 2464-66-69 and come back down.  The whole north east side is in dust road: 2470, for which we do not have the right car! Our second stop is the Wish Rock Garden, ...

1 lazy day, 3 days diving, or not
Aug 12, 2007 (24 photos)

... so it is a lot. But even if it was peanuts: he owes us! We go diving with Bero and Tito. http://www.scubadivers-aruba.com/services.html Back right is Bero, our instructor for the day. Left is Tito (your dark twin, Norbert), his grandma is 111 ...

Aruba
Aug 28, 2008 (3 photos)

... in the jeeps up and over the same mountain and back to the tour operator office to get on a bus back to the ship. Aruba was a very pretty place but not at all what I was expecting.  Our Tour Guide referred to it as Arizona with water all around it ...

Happy new year
Jan 1, 2009 (13 photos)

... London transport) we have got fitter and lost some weight (before Xmas). We were introduced to the IFA (International friends of Aruba) which has allowed us to meet new people, we have been invited to a range of events and dinner parties....3 invites ...

Last minute shopping
Apr 18, 2009 (14 photos)

... shirts. DD1 want to buy an Aruba friendship to give to friends back home but they don't have it so we went to downtown Oranjestad. After lunch the kids went swimming in the pool while I was doing laundry in our room and started packing. I want to see ...

We arrive in Aruba
Apr 13, 2005 (6 photos)

We arrived in Aruba around 2pm and walked across the street to a car rental where we had arranged to rent a car for the week. The first car they offered us looked like it had seen a few hard miles and John promptly refused it. The second car they offered ...

where the hell did the week go?
Jul 23, 2006

... headed out to downtown Aruba with a few other co-workers in search of gifts. there are lots of great jewelry stores in downtown Aruba. apparently, gems are cheaper than in the states and it's something you buy when you come to the island. after a few ...

Happy Easter!
Apr 12, 2009 (14 photos)

We checked out of Divi Dutch Village today. We asked for direction to a Catholic Church nearby. We were told to go to Tamrijn where the Guest Services was located. We did not waste our time going there. We know there was a church on Noord. We drove ...

Dive JADS
Oct 4, 2009 (32 photos)

... make scuba diving on your Aruba vacation convenient and enjoyable. Certified Scuba Divers will enjoy our Boat Charters for exploring Aruba shipwrecks, deep dives, and scuba diving in a diver’s playground. All of our certified divers dive with a PADI ...

Malmok Beach, Madame Janette
Apr 15, 2009 (10 photos)

... to the Natural Pool but nothing was available.  Based on our experienced wherein we had a hard time renting a vehicle while we were in Aruba, I told DH that we should book a 4x4 before we leave but he wants to play it by ear when we get there. Now we ...

A bucket of Balashi beer please...
Jul 6, 2006 (2 photos)

So, this local Aruban beer, Balashi.. tasty! Been getting buckets of it all week while laying on the sand by the ocean. Today started off like the past few days. Morning workout, breakfast, and meetings! We were going to go on waverunners after the ...

ATVs and the dessert paradise that is Aruba
Jul 5, 2006

... for about 30 minutes to the location of the ATV rental place. Three hours or so later, we have driven the ATVs through Aruba's national park.. stopping at the Ayo rock formation, the Gold Mill ruins and a crazy looking natural bridge. I had a blast. ...

my last full day on the island..
Jul 7, 2006 (2 photos)

... sea bass EVAR. and bottles of good wine. i ate well this trip. :) the crew decided to go bar hopping and i decided that it was probably wiser for me to go to sleep. tomorrow, i go shopping in downtown aruba to bring gifts back to the folks at home.

I thought this was tropical...
Jul 3, 2006 (1 photos)

... . As I walked out, the heat washed over me immediately and memories of Malaysia hit me. I started to notice all the unique things about Aruba. Yes, it's an island but it's dry... and VERY windy! Today will be a slow day as we try to shrug off the long ...

Aruba (a Dutch island off the coast of Venezuela)
Feb 10, 2008 (7 photos)

After docking at the peer in Oranjestad, we were in the terminal by 7:30 in the morning, found our tour group, and headed to the parking lot, where we were psyched to find that our transportation for the day was the Banana Bus, by far the most interesting ...

Aruba update
Nov 5, 2008 (16 photos)

... tell, apparently, Brits are the only people to say "LOVELY" so easy to spot. We also found the sole Aussie on Aruba...there is always one ! Our neighbour is a former English professional footballer for 10 years....he & his wife built a jungle lodge in ...

Alto Vista Chapel, Baby Beach, Seroe Colorado
Apr 14, 2009 (28 photos)

... my check list was to buy a travel mug from Dunkin Donuts Aruba. Don't ask me why. Maybe because it says, "Dunkin Donuts Aruba....it's worth the trip" (ha ha ha). We also bought a chocolate kreme filling donuts for the kids. Then we bought bagels at Dushi. ...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DAD !
May 22, 2009 (139 photos)

... were ocean front units  :o) The day following my arrival (Thursday) Moira, Rusty and I spent the day at Aruba's newest attraction: Morgan's Island Aqua Park (http://www.arubamorgansisland.com/). Our cousin Ingrid was celebrating her daughters 8th ...

Hooiberg and Casibari Rock Formation
Apr 11, 2009 (41 photos)

... go snorkeling so they went to the other pool and went swimming there. Around 4:30pm we went shopping in Oranjestad. We went to DI  to get Aruba charmfor the kids Island charm collection that started when we were in Nassau. I got one for myself too. ...

Geo Caching in Aruba
Apr 10, 2009 (40 photos)

... mare was really good. The kids had pizza and they love it. They want to eat there again. We walked around downtown Oranjestad before heading back home.   When we came back to our room, we've notice that our patio furnitures were switched to a ...

Natural Bridge, Bushiribana, Arikok, Ayo Rock
Apr 13, 2009 (36 photos)

... We also explored Bushiribana Ruins. This place used to be a gold smelter that was originally built out of stone in 1872 for the Aruba Island Gold Mining Company in order to extract the gold from Ceru Plat, the hills behind the building. We were there last ...

snorkel cruise and cuban food
Jul 4, 2006 (5 photos)

Today, I woke up pretty early. Still on the work schedule, I guess. I went running on the beach. so soft and quiet, it was nice. The humidity here is pretty high which is weird so maybe I'm making shit up but it's a good workout in steamy weather. I was ...

Aanvaring op St. Maarten!
Mar 30, 2008 (9 photos)

Aanvaring op St. Maarten   We hebben moeite om St. Eustatius, waar we het zo naar onze zin hebben gehad, te verlaten. Met een brok in de keel sleuren we het hekanker omhoog en bevrijden we ons van de mooring. Dan hijsen we de zeilen en maken we ...

Mangel Halto
Apr 17, 2009 (5 photos)

After breakfast we went to Mangel Halto. There are no street signs on Aruba. It is really hard to find the places that you want to go to. We had a hard time finding this location but after a couple of stops to asked questions we eventually did. We parked ...

Huisje bouwen?!
Mar 27, 2008 (16 photos)

Zullen we hier maar een huis bouwen?   Het is al lang donker als we arriveren op St. Eustatius, daarom zien we pas de volgende de kale, grijze rotswand boven ons opdoemen. We kijken wat teleurgesteld om ons heen: olietankers, een steiger met wat ...