Bon Bini - Your Guide to Aruba Travel

Aruba features natural wonders and great beaches and every water sport you can imagine. With all of the tropical paradises you could visit, this is why you have picked Aruba for your Caribbean vacation.

With its near-perfect weather, sunny skies, warm temperatures, and cooling breezes, Aruba takes all the guess work out of picking the perfect destination. Because the island is more of a desert than a rainforest, the humidity is low and it hardly ever rains.  Aruba is far south of the tropical storm belt, so hurricanes are not much of an issue.  In fact, there is rarely a hurricane within hundreds of miles.

Overall, Aruba is a tiny island. Only 20 miles long and 6 miles across at its widest point, it's slightly larger than Washington, D.C. Aruba is  the westernmost island in the Dutch ABC islands -- Aruba, Bonaire, and Curaçao -- and less than 20 miles north of Venezuela.

It also has some of the best beaches in the Caribbean.  Miles of white, powdery sand; warm turquoise waters and plenty of space for sit down and relax.

After relaxing on the beach there's scuba diving, snorkeling, great windsurfing, and all the other watersports you expect from a sun-and-sea vacation. On land, you can golf, ride a horse, hike, or take an ATV over the island's outback and ride through the desert cactus and cliffs, sand dunes, and crashing rugged breakers.

You can choose from luxury resorts, all-inclusives, cozy boutique hotels, and modest budget motels. Foodies can take delight in the fabulous restaurant choices including eating right on the beach.

There are also casinos and nightlife with live music and dancing for the young and young at heart.

You'll find the overwhelming majority of Arubans to be genuinely friendly and welcoming. And, although Dutch is the official language, almost everyone speaks English. You'll also hear Spanish and Papiamento, the local tongue (a mix of several European, African, and Native American languages), now recognized as an official language, along with Dutch.

Aruba has the highest repeat-visitor rate in the Caribbean; the highest hotel-occupancy figures, too. Honeymooners, families, and couples of all ages and types fill the resorts during the winter high season and in the traditionally quieter summer months as well. More than 70% of visitors hail from the United States