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.
Klein Curaçao
Curacao · Free to land; boat tour fares vary by operator
An uninhabited flat coral island about eight miles off the south-east coast, with a long white beach, an abandoned lighthouse and clear snorkelling water, reachable only by boat.
Time needed
Full day
Hours
Open daily 24 hours
Tips
There is almost no shade and no facilities of any kind — bring sun protection, water and everything else you need. The north-eastern side has the calmest water. Sailing takes about two hours each way.
Neighborhood
Offshore, south-east of Curaçao
Activity providers
Kosher map of Curacao
Pick a place on the map or search an address or hotel to see what is kosher around it.