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Aruba is well known for its white sandy beaches, but what might be the island’s best keep secret is the amazing Aruba Aloe Vera products that are being produced right underneath the Aruban sun. What is not a secret is the healing properties that the Aloe Vera plant is known for. This wonder plant has been used over millennia around the world in numerous cultures for medicinal purposes.

Aruba’s north coast is decorated with several arches that are carved from the limestone coastline of the island. One of the most popular of these was the one located just before the Andicuri beach. This bridge had a height of approximately 25 feet and had a span of about 10 feet long before it collapsed on the 2nd of September 2005. It was one of Aruba’s must-see natural wonders as you can snap beautiful pictures on the white sandy beaches with the bridge spanning across the background.

The California lighthouse or otherwise known by locals as faro blanco, is a 98- foot operating lighthouse. The construction of the lighthouse was completed in 1916 and was named after the steamship California, which wrecked in 1891 just of the rocky North Coast of Aruba.  It was in 1919 when the lighthouse first became operation. The first lighthouse keeper was a gentleman called Jacob Jacobs who came from Curaçao.

The Casibari Rock garden is located towards to center of Aruba. The public rock garden holds a collection of giant boulders that normally decorates Aruba’s landscape.  These boulders, whose main component is tonalite, can be found in all shapes and sizes. If you ever wonder how these giants were formed than you would have to go back many years back in time. They formed when the tectonic plates in the Caribbean shifted where magna escaped and slowly cooled in cylinder-shape right underneath the earth. With time, the ground around the rocks eroded and exposing these giants in the landscape.  

Between Monday January 30th and Wednesday February 1st, Aruba welcomed the Dutch Royal Family during their official visit to our island.  This visit was a special one, as it was HRH Amalia, princess of Orange-Nassau’s first official tour of the Caribbean part of the Dutch Kingdom. Together with her parents, King Willem-Alexander and Queen Maxima, the princess had a full agenda while on the island, from meeting with the governor and parliament members to visiting various historic locations on island. They visited beautiful locations like the Arikok National Park and learned about their conservation work, walked in Downtown San Nicolas to admire the colorful murals, and ended their trip with a cultural evening visiting the Bon Bini Festival in Oranjestad.