Curaçao attractions
Beaches, national parks, museums and dive sites worth your time.
Handelskade, Punda
The pastel waterfront that put Willemstad on every postcard, best seen from across the bay in Otrobanda.
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Queen Emma Bridge
A pedestrian bridge on floating pontoons that swings aside for every passing ship, linking Punda and Otrobanda.
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Kura Hulanda Museum
Curaçao's most important museum on the transatlantic slave trade, in restored 18th- and 19th-century buildings in Otrobanda.
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Mikvé Israel-Emanuel Synagogue
Consecrated in 1732, with a floor of white sand: the oldest synagogue in continuous use in the Americas.
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Landhuis Chobolobo
The 19th-century country house where the original Curaçao liqueur, blue and otherwise, is still distilled.
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Hato Caves
Guided tours through limestone caves with stalactites, a bat colony and Amerindian rock drawings, five minutes from the airport.
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Christoffel National Park
Curaçao's largest national park, home to the island's highest peak and an early-morning summit hike.
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Shete Boka National Park
Thundering surf, a sea cave you can walk into and turtle nesting coves on Curaçao's rugged north coast.
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The postcard beach of Curaçao: a white crescent between cliffs, with a viewpoint everyone stops at.
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Playa Piskado (Playa Grandi)
A small fishing beach near Westpunt where green sea turtles graze a few metres from the shore.
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Playa Lagun
A small, sheltered cove between steep cliffs, with calm water and some of the easiest snorkelling on the island.
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Cas Abao Beach
A well-run private beach with soft sand, turquoise water and every comfort, from loungers to a dive shop.
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Blue Room Cave
A sea cave near Santa Cruz where sunlight through an underwater opening turns the water electric blue.
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Tugboat Beach, Caracasbaai
A coral-covered tugboat wreck in shallow water, a short swim from a small beach at Caracasbaai.
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Flamingos at Jan Kok
Wild flamingos feeding in the old salt pans of Jan Kok, a free roadside stop on the way to the west-coast beaches.
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Museo Tula (Landhuis Knip)
The plantation house where Curaçao's largest slave revolt began in 1795, now a museum about Tula and the fight for freedom.
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