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.
Curaçao Rif Mangrove Park
Curacao · Visitor admission: adults US$15, children ages 6-12 US$2, under 6 free. Residents with sedula: adults and children ages 6-12 CG2, under 6 free. Guided walking and kayak tours cost extra.
City nature park offering guided mangrove kayak tours and guided walking tours through replanted mangrove wetland.
Hours
Open daily 8:00 AM–5:00 PM, last entry 4:30 PM
Phone
+5999 513-1681Website
https://www.mangrovepark.orgActivity providers
Kosher map of Curacao
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