City overview
Aruba sits 15 miles off the coast of Venezuela, outside the hurricane belt, with reliable sunshine, constant trade winds and some of the widest white-sand beaches in the Caribbean. The island is a constituent country of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, and Dutch order meets Caribbean warmth in a place small enough to cross by car in under an hour — resort strips along Palm and Eagle Beach on the west coast, a rugged cactus desert and wind-battered north shore behind them. Jewish life is concentrated in Noord, where Chabad Aruba has grown since 2013 into a community of roughly 150 people, and the island now supports year-round kosher dining for the first time.
Eagle Beach
Aruba · Free
Aruba's widest public beach, known for its white sand, the two much-photographed fofoti trees and its sea-turtle nesting grounds.
Time needed
2–4 hours
Tips
Turtle nests are roped off in season — stay outside the markers and don't set up chairs on marked nesting sand.
Neighborhood
Eagle Beach
Activity providers
Kosher map of Aruba
Pick a place on the map or search an address or hotel to see what is kosher around it.