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Aruba Days

Sights & points of interest

Lighthouses and chapels, boulder fields and caves with ancient drawings, gold-mill ruins and colourful murals — the places worth leaving the beach for.

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Hooiberg 1
ViewpointsParadera & Santa Cruz

Hooiberg

Aruba's cone-shaped 165 m 'haystack' hill in the middle of the island, climbed by a stairway of roughly 600 steps to a panoramic summit.

Day trip idea

The north coast in one day

  1. Morning — the California Lighthouse on the island's north-western tip, then the Alto Vista Chapel.
  2. Late morning — the Bushiribana gold-mill ruins on the rugged north coast.
  3. Afternoon — climb the boulders at Casibari, then see the rock drawings at Ayo.
  4. Sunset — back on the west coast at Eagle Beach.
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