Country Info
- Willemstad
- Capital
- Netherlands Antillean guilder (ANG)
- Currency
- 212,226
- Population
- AN
- Country Code
Netherlands Antilles Slideshow
Travel Blogs from Netherlands Antilles
a wallet thinner
This is a top pick! Curaçao is the C island within the ABC group of Caribbean islands.. It's had and kept close colonial ties with the Dutch, which unlike many in the carib. who have shunned them, has resulted in an island with good infrastructure. On the big bridge that ...
Things (once again) do not work out as planned
This is a top pick! At 07h40, I am at my computer. A knock on our door at 9h. I give the man his car back, when he says; why don't you keep it another day, free of charge, I do not need it. Ooooookeeeeyyyy. We have to bring it to his place (at the west site of the ...
Here Curaçao
This is a top pick! For the first time in weeks we do not have to turn on an alarm clock. Anybody feels sorry for us? We wake up when we wake up have coffee in bed (and no, there are NO pictures) and poke our nose out and this is what we see: Not ...
Discovering Willemstad
This is a top pick! We get up when we get up, I make brunch and it is almost 11h when we leave. I do not have a beach day, so we decide to start in Willemstad, the capital of Curaçao. We leave in our fancy car: An ancient Suzuki Samurai. No ABS or any of the ...
Hi, Curacao, or not
This is a top pick! How are you today? We are GRAAAWL. Our luggage has to be out at 6h to leave at 7h. The bus in on time, would you believe and plays loud ... gospel all the way to the airport about 2 hours, with stops at every resort. It drove me nuts. In a mood ...
Bonaire, am I impressed yet???
This is a top pick! ... cannot really think of a reason, nor do we ask. Tony asks whether we can transfer the amount to her bank account in the Netherlands. Yes, if we pay 14 Euro extra. Why???? Because that is the costs she pays. Noooooooooooo. Nobody pays costs to receive ...
North and East of the Island
This is a top pick! I manage to sleep in till 9! Nice mails from nice people, also from my Springmuis: joepie! Starting to answer and even send a couple of mails to my colleagues, the internet crashes, for the first time here, I feel handicapped! It is a router ...
NOT happy holiday homes
This is a top pick! We get up early, chat a bit, drive to the diving shop to pick up our tanks and Tony takes me to the first diving site. Yes, I am still nervous. But: it is great! He finds everything! Morays, turtles, lots of trunk fish. He finds the way back in time (my ...
Cry baby, cry
This is a top pick! We are at our diving site around 10. It does say difficult entry and exit but well, we can handle it. NOT!!! Coming out, the waves are tossing us back and forth, like balls in the ocean. At a certain point in time, when the water reaches your ...
Where Dr T gets a new hairdo and new sloefkes
This is a top pick! ... .000 Euro Rolex, in a nasty divorce. Hans with his (20 year younger) girlfriend, trying to have a baby, moved here from the Netherlands, less than a year ago. I can imagine: having contact with the guests, who all stay a week or two and then they are gone ...
I am the man
This is a top pick! We are at the orientation at 9. A pretty Dutch girls gives a briefing. Nothing we do not know yet: do not take anything but pictures, do not leave anything but bubbles. We know that! Get your gear and do the orientation dive from the resort. But ...
My Hubby my Hero
This is a top pick! And puts our gear together (is he not PERFECT?) We go diving, the top 2 dives of my life. No, no because of the trunk fish, turtles, morays, ... but because of my Hubby. Cannot say more! Getting in and out of the sea is a struggle, here you see ...
No diving but ...
This is a top pick! ... toilet! Is this the meal, which did it? Did what? Send me off to the toilet for hours!!! Looks pretty innocent to me! And Dr T had almost the same. This time it was me: the tourista. I bring Tony's coffee an hour later than usual and ...
Big news from Curaçao
This is a top pick! ... excited and ALL sentimental! I cook a crappy dinner (unlike at noon: verse maatjes: and broodje gezond; after all, we are in the Netherlands) and go to bed early: the emotions! So, now you know: we are coming back, get prepared to party, play cards ...
Not naked today or maybe
This is a top pick! When we walk outside, Mark from diving shop 'The Dive Bus' is waiting for us. A very nice guy, the owner, English and a doctor from origin. In the shop, we have a coffee at ease. It think we are waiting for other people but, no, just chatting. We get ...
Midnightswim
This is a top pick! ... the three so-called ABC islands (for Aruba, Bonaire, and Curaçao) of the Lesser Antilles and belongs to the Netherlands Antilles, a self-governing part of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Curaçao has a land area of 444 square kilometres, population ...
Another shore dive
This is a top pick! Mark is on time and we leave for 2 more shore dives. It is again the 3 of us and we dive for more than 2 hours in total! Although we do not see anything out of the ordinary, it is great dives. The second one is my nr. 250!!!! Mark brought lunch, ...
Local people and busses
... talked to me in dutch which I found a bit annoying, seems they assume every white tourist is coming from the Netherlands. (I am still very white, but thanks to the good suncream (part of the farewell present basked from my work colleagues) not as ...
spoiled
... ; it was Hubby and me, two men from New Mexico and one man from - never did catch where he was from but probably the Netherlands or Germany originally. Can't even begin to tell you how nice it was just to have ...
Curacao Surprizes
032910 Curacao: We arrived at the charming and colorful Dutch harbor of Willemstad (Curacao's capital city) early morning. The floating footbridge swung opened to allow the Star Flyer entrance into the harbor canal. We moored alongside the ...
Wildlife of Bonaire or Dinner and a Show
Bonaire abounds in wildlife. Ok, most of it is marine, under the water, diving to see it wildlife but defintiely abundant. On top of the water, it seems to be birds and ...
World travellers
Meeting interesting people already started on the plane. Sat next to a surf- and kitesurf instructor who has been doing this job and living in different countries for ten years. Reminded me of the paragliding, kayaking etc. instructures I met in Nepal ...
Bonaire--a divers'--uh, snorkeler's--heaven
Gorgeous water! Lots of beautiful fish! All right off the back of the boat which was moored right off the shore of Kralendijk, Bonaire's major city. Thanksgiving with good friends, Karen and Jason of YOLO--and a great tour of the pretty ...
Guest on a sailboat
Through Courchsurfing I found a bed on a sailboat. The stay on the boat was an impressing experience, my host a really nice and friendly person and a good cook in addition :-) Ever had avocado for dessert? With lime, sugar and cinnamon, yummy! He learnt ...
nok en dykkeperle venter..De Nederlandske Antiller
paradis paradis paradis! dette er nok en dykkeperle, undervannsfotografenes mekka! vi har booket oss inn på en resort der vi disponerer en truck, dykketanker (så mange man vil) og et asurblått hav spekket med liv! glede seg!!! vi skal være der i tre ...
Bonaire Baby!
A very early morning departure following a very late night made for very little sleep before leaving New York for Bonaire. Needless to say, we didn't see much of the flight to Bonaire. My friend Timothy and I stayed at the Deep Blue Inn Bed and ...
Bon Bini!
"BON bini", "BON dia", "BON noche", Shir's nickname for Gil's seems to be very catchy over here! People are extremely nice and everywhere we go smiles and bon-greetings await us. Maybe the kindness that surrounds us is because of the fact that we are ...
Land Ho !
After nearly three straight days at sea, we made our first port of call. We were the 2nd of four ships to arrive in St. Maartin. The other three ships were Royal Caribbean's "Explorer of the Sea's, on a nine night Eastern Caribbean cruise out of New ...