Country Info
- Willemstad
- Capital
- Netherlands Antillean guilder (ANG)
- Currency
- 212,226
- Population
- AN
- Country Code
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Netherlands Antilles
Travel Blogs from Netherlands Antilles
Final day of diving
Today was our last day of diving since it is highly recommended that you have 24 hours without diving before flying—don't want to decompress on the plane. We started out at a site near our condo called Windsock. We had snorkeled this site our ...
St. Eustatius adventures by Air, Sea, and Car!
Today was our second day of diving, but first we had to fly to St. Eustatius (Statia). It was a quick 15 minute flight on a small 19 passenger plane. Statia is a small island with about 3000 people known for its history and diving. St. ...
Viela hengissa
Hyvinkin laiska ollut viime aikoina kirjoittamaan mitaan kenellekkaan. Tuntuu ettei ole aikaa. Mutta tottahan sita aikaa loytyisi, jos haluaisi. Mutta tietysti hauskempaa istua baarissa juomassa olutta. Tama paikka on huono siina mielessa... Liian paljon ...
Curacao Ostrich Farm
Come and visit the Curacao Ostrich Farm, and take the oppurtunity to meet these fascinating birds up-close and personal. You can touch them, feed them and even ride them (only for the daredevils!!) Every hour a safari tour will take you on a remarkable ...
Staartje Bonaire en het zeeaquarium van Curacao
Bonaire: warm, de Aqua-Space en het kopen van red snappers. Op het tweede filmpje de verpleegster-haaien en een stukje dolfijnenshow van ...
CURACAO
Hoi Mijn 5 dagen Curacao zitten er al op. Ik heb een auto gehuurd voor 2 dagen en zowat heel het eiland afgereden naar de mooiste stranden natuurlijk. Maar ik vraag me af waarom er op die mooie paradijselijke stranden ook zandvlooien moeten zitten waar ...
Snorkeling at Klein Bonaire and Kralendijk
Oh, oh....I have definitely gotten into the bad timing genie now. I got up at 9 am and potsed around getting ready, logged on to the computer, played around with battery charging and erased an sd card so I would have a free one to use once the ...
Wet on land and underwater
Today was our last day to dive—you're not supposed to fly within 24 hrs of diving because you are at risk for decompression sickness. When we woke up it was cloudy and calm so we decided to try sites on the southern tip of the island on the ...
Emily's our official lookout
Ten and a half hours of sleep is sure nice! We started out our morning with plans to dive at a deep reef called Alice in Wonderland, but when we got there we found way too many cars for our liking (that's what we get for sleeping in, right?). We ...
Wow! This place is really cool
Our arrival into Curacao was highly anticipated. It is a very far distance from Lauderdale (Rich said that there aren't many cruise ships that can travel fast enough to get there and back in a week). It was reported to be very gay friendly ...
Isla Mujeres
... or if they are catering to what they think is their audience. Curacao has a governor appointed by the monarch of the Netherlands, and they also have their first female prime minister. The population of Curacao is 65% female, since of the men ...
Bonaire, Netherlands Antilles
... second floor of our hotel restaurant), and damaged some of the coral near shore. Bonaire is part of the Netherlands Antilles; they recently voted to strengthen their ties to the Netherlands and are basically regular Netherlands citizens (as I ...
The World is My Oyster
Tuesday, March 29 CURACAO Yesterday afternoon, our dive group took a little voyage into Willemstad. I admit, I wasn't as excited as everyone else about returning to the scene of the pig snouts, mysterious fish sandwiches, and suspicious shop ladies. But ...
Diving Curacao
Our next port was Willemstad, Curacao. Russ and I fell in love with this island. We were picked up by the dive company Atlantis Diving and taken to their shop (and given a tour of the town on the way) and geared up to do some shore diving. ...
You want me to jump from where?!?
We have been diving on the southern end of the island, so we decided that at least some of our dives today should be northern sites. Since we wanted to have lunch in our condo we figured it would work out to do a morning dive in the south and two ...
try, try again
... Wattaburger (a Dutch fast food place) and had milkshakes. Bonaire fact of the day: Bonaire is currently part of the Netherlands Antilles, a group of islands that are territories of the Netherlands. On October 10 of this year the Netherlands Antilles ...
Like the Red Cross for mosquitoes
Spent most of the night being feasted upon. I think one very lucky mosquito sneaked into my room last night and just had at it. I think I'll name him George (for political metaphor). I start at the bar today. More to ...
Tatanka, Buffalo
Friday, March 25 Curacao!!! (with a view of Venezuela) Luggageless. I thought, thank god I always pack an emergency bikini in my carry-on bag. After zooming across the dark, humid, pot-holed island, we pulled up to the front of the Scuba Lodge. A ...
Curacao - kein Likör aber viel Regen
Da habe ich wohl gestern ein wenig übertrieben... Die Strecke von Bonaire nach Curacao ist sehr kurz, sodass das Schiff mit "Schrittgeschwindigkeit" nach Curacao läuft. Wir haben schon um 06.00 Uhr festgemacht und legen erst um 22.00 Uhr ab. Ich ...
Carribbean Sea Storm Force 10
Later on Thursday evening 14 January, we were recording a wind speed of up to 42 kn and a boat speed of 12 knots. The skipper said that at home you wouldn't go sailing in such conditions. The sea was quite big probably caused by the Colombian coastline. ...
Snorkeling the reef and a Sunset Sail
Today I had nothing planned as of the morning and I thought maybe I would use the day for my cultural tour of Kralendijk. I took a long time getting out...as usual it seems...and used a brochure to find some of the historical sights. I had ...
Annabaai, Klein Curacao en Avis
Het binnenvaren van de Annabaai, een blik op Klein Curacao, booby's van de Avis eilanden en terug op ...
Back to Bonaire & Captains Corner
Captains Corner...by Ray Costello G'day All. It's been a while since I last put pen to paper, mainly because we spent 3 months in Australia. The primary purpose of our visit back home was for Lea and I to have some health checks, with Lea given the all ...
Landing at Landhuis Daniel
Today was another flight day. I had a mid-morning flight from Bonaire to Curacao on Insel Airline. The Lizard Inn folks assured me that I wouldn't need more than an hour at the airport. It was a funkier process. I was allowed to ...