City overview
Curaçao is a Dutch Caribbean island 40 miles off the Venezuelan coast, where pastel-coloured colonial waterfronts, a UNESCO-listed capital and more than 35 named beaches sit inside a dry, cactus-studded landscape that stays warm and largely rainless all year. Willemstad is the centre of everything — the floating Queen Emma Bridge, the Handelskade merchant houses and the island's museums — while the western half of the island holds the cliff-backed coves, national parks and reef diving. Jewish life on Curaçao goes back to the 1650s and the community today numbers under 350. Orthodox life on the island runs through Shaarei Tsedek in the Mahaai district, an Ashkenazi congregation founded in 1959 and led since 2017 by Rabbi Refoel and Chani Silver as Chabad of Curaçao, which also supplies the island's only kosher food.
Christoffel National Park
Curacao · Adults USD 15.00, children 6–12 USD 2.00, under 6 free, groups of 15 or more USD 9.00
Curaçao's largest national park, around 2,300 hectares surrounding the 375-metre Mount Christoffel, with hiking trails, driving routes and the endemic Curaçao white-tailed deer.
Time needed
2–4 hours
Hours
Open daily 6:00 AM–3:00 PM
Tips
The ticket counter closes at 1:30 PM and the latest permitted start for the mountain climb is 10:00 AM. Start at 6:00 AM to avoid the heat.
Phone
+5999 520-1685Neighborhood
Bandabou
Activity providers
Kosher map of Curacao
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