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Bonaire is a small Caribbean island located 80 miles (130 km) east of Aruba and 50 miles (80 km) north of Venezuela. Bonaire features the easiest scuba diving and snorkeling in the Caribbean, thanks to the fringing reef which surrounds the island, and allows for shore access over most of Bonaire's leeward side.

Beaches: Playa Chikitu, Boka Kokolishi, Boka Bartol, Playa Funchi, Boka Slagbaai, Playa Frans, Steps Beach, Bachelor Beach, Pink Beach and Lac Bay

Capital City of Bonaire: Kralendijk

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Car Rental Bonaire

  Sixt   -   

  Holiday Autos  -   
Holiday Autos offers the best fully inclusive car hire prices. Get cheap car hire quickly and securely online with holidayautos.co.uk, the experts in online car rental.

Holiday Homes

  RE-MAX Paradise Homes   -   Real Estate specialists
Assisting clients in buying, selling or renting homes, villas, and More
  Sunbelt Realty   -   Bonaire's leading real estate company.
Rentals, Residential / Homes, Residential Development, Condos / Apartments, Oceanfront, Commercial Real Estate, Land / Lots, Bonaire Real Estate Basics
  Tropical Inn Bonaire
Tropical Inn Bonaire is small-scale resort within a 2 minute walking distance from the beach and dive -facilities and a 10 minute walking distance from the center of Kralendijk. The resort has 6 beautiful one -bedroom apartments and 6 hotelrooms. All rooms are finely decorated in a Mexican style, situated at the swimming pool and surrounded by a tropical garden.

Hotels in Bonaire

  

  
Centrally located hotels ranging from small family run budget accommodation to world-class five star hotels.

National Parks Bonaire

  Bonaire National Marine Park   -   National Park of the Netherlands Antilles
  Washington-Slagbaai National Park, at the northwestern end of the island

  Bonaire Nature
Underwater or on land, Bonaire boasts unique nature experiences.

Travel Agents / Tour Operators

     -   Family holidays, Spa holidays

 
Caribbean cruises.

   -   Create your perfect trip Bonaire   -   Flight, Hotel and Car

 

  -   flights to Bonaire
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  Airline Tickets /  Bargain Flights  
Flight tickets Bonaire / Price comparison possible


Links

  Bonaire   -   official website Bonaire

  Kralendijk   -   Capital City of Bonaire

  Klein Bonaire   -   small islet formed just off the coast of the main island.

  Peekelmeer
Pekelmeer is a salt water lake where solar salt is produced though a crystallization process and then exported to the Eastern United States and other Caribbean islands. The salt pans shield the 135 acre flamingo sanctuary which is home to an estimated 40,000 birds

  Bonaire Webcams
Home of the world's first permanent underwater ReefCam, giving you a peek at reef life in the Bonaire Marine Park!
  Newsletter   -   Bonaire Entre Nous 
Entre Nous is the Monthly newsletter from the Tourism Corporation Bonaire, Netherlands Antilles. In this newsletter you will find the accomplishments of TCB in Bonaire, North America, South America and Europe.
  Sea Turtle Club
  Sea Turtle Conservation  -  The Sea Turtle Club Bonaire
Non-profit organization set up to help prevent the extinction of Bonaire sea turtles and preserve their natural habitats through research and public awareness programs.

Cuisine  -  Bonaire Cooking Recipes

  Antillean Food

History of Bonaire

From the first inhabitants, the Caiquetios (a branch of the Arawak Indians) who sailed from the coast of Venezuela almost 1000 years ago, to the many cultures now living and working in Bonaire today, the island has a distinct character that is all its own.

In 1633, the Dutch took possession of Curacao, Bonaire and Aruba. The largest island, Curacao, emerged as a center of the notorious slave trade. Bonaire then became a plantation island belonging to the Dutch West Indies Company. It was during those early years that the first African slaves were forced to work, cutting dyewood and cultivating maize and harvesting solar salt. Grim reminders of those days still remain in the form of slave huts and salt pans which were laboriously constructed by hand. They are an important part of the island's heritage and have been left to stand mute testimony to Bonaire's repressive beginning...

See for more Bonaire's History [ Infobonaire.com ]

  Museo Boneriano / Museum of Bonaire
First and largest of Bonaire's museums is located just outside of town

Music, Culture

  Antillean Music   -   see Wikipedia

Teach Yourself Beginner's Dutch Audiopackage with Cassette(s) (Teach Yourself Beginner's: An Easy Introduction) 
Gerdi Quist, Dennis Strik
Paperback 210 pages (December 2002);  Publisher: McGraw-Hill Companies;  Language: English;  ISBN: 0071407421
ARTE: Dutch Caribbean Art/Beeldende Kunst Van De Nederlandse Antillen En Aruba 
A. Martis, J. Smit, et al
Hardcover 144 pages (August 2002);  Publisher: KIT [ Royal Tropical Institute of the Netherlands ]; Language: English;  ISBN: 9068325140


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