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Aruba’s most family-friendly beaches

(Oranjestad)—One of the big- atmosphere, there are also belongings. In this area, the
gest concerns that parents several services that may ac- shore is also shallow, falling
have when travelling with their commodate your stay, like right around your knee before
children is a guarantee of their a parking lot, sun tent rent- slowly getting deeper: perfect
safety and healthy enjoyment. als, chairs, bathrooms and a for kids to safely play.
Therefore, we thought it would snack bar right at the far left Baby Beach, these sites are of the best places to snorkel,
be a great help to travelling of the beach. Eagle Beach/Palm Beach in one of the best beaches for as this area is filled with little
parents to list off some the the hotel area your children to play and build fish and corals, even close
most family-friendly beaches Mangel Halto in Pos Chiquito Yet another highly popular sand castles. to the shore.
around the island. Mangel Halto is situated in beach site, Eagle Beach and
the back streets of the Pos Palm Beach is where most of Boca Catalina in Malmok Palm Island
Baby Beach in San Nicolas Chiquito city. Though there our visitors go to tan, swim Boca Catalina is a small bay Ok, this one is technically not a
Baby Beach is one Aruba’s are several stairs on the sides or play in the white sand. beach near the Malmok beach, but a must-visit attrac-
most popular and visited of the beach cliff leading you Because they are near the beach area further down tion for family fun. This small
beaches, and for good down, the best spot for fami- low-rise and high-rise hotel the hotel areas. Though it water park oasis is located
reason: This sandy and quiet lies to hang out is across the areas, these beaches are may not be a very sandy further down the Mangel Halto
lagoon is a great place for bridge, passed the mangrove the most accessible for visi- beach, it is relatively quiet Beach and is reachable by
parents to sit back and re- trees near the entrance sign. tors on foot. These beaches and tranquil. This is a great boat. This water park offers 6
lax while their children play Here, there are small and big also offer many palapas free place for family to lay down hours of fun activities, food,
in the shallow shores of the palapas, perfect for big and to use, but you can also rent a big blanket and have a drinks, and a chance to see
beach. Beside the relaxing small families to set up their chairs and tents. Much like little picnic. This is also one pink flamingoes up close! q

Episode CXXIII- 123 - Cultural legacy

NOORD — On the American is no common religion or spiri-
continent, from Alaska to Tier- tual life. There are no sacred
ra del Fuego we will find many texts or a mythology that all
different native cultures that tribes believe in. However, in
structured their economy in the particular mythology of
hunting, fishing and agricul- each tribe there is always a
ture that are deeply relating Great Spirit, a greater god.
to the natural survival envi- There is also the belief that
ronment and totally related the earth’s natural resources
with their spiritual world. should be used and that, if
possible, something should
Within this context, we know be given in exchange or re-
that the vocabulary of all in- turn for these. Furthermore,
digenous languages lacks a the spiritual leaders of the whites to take advantage of vision and will not be able sociological aspects of inter-
word that means “religion”: tribe (mistakenly called by the knowledge of these tribes, to live the ancestral feeling preting native stories. Etnia
their beliefs and spirituality the white “shamans”) were since before oral tradition and connection. Nativa is rife with poignant
were so intrinsically linked believed to be capable of could be part of the Intel- and original observations
to everything that these in- communicating with the spirit lectual Property Law; some Symbolism, folk rites, and tribal and is an essential tour for
digenous people did, (be it world. American companies had customs, and designs are a anyone interested in islands
economic, political, artistic, used medicinal and botani- native way of life. Thieves of Native American cultures and
etc.) a term that was not nec- Although writing systems cal knowledge of indigenous land, language, cultural iden- legacies.
essary to designate them. existed before the arrival of people to obtain economic tity and spiritual values are Aruba should speak; the result
Native culture is the result of the colonists, the indigenous benefit by becoming expro- still going on in to our days. could free the mind.
the raw material available, people did not put their his- priators of tribal authors of the Etnia Nativa is a tour de force
creativity and the desire to tory, beliefs or wisdom in particular discoveries. of Native Aruban cultural criti- Did you say that you love
improve on a communal as writing the way of the white cism ranging widely across Aruba, its origins and cultural
well as on a personal level. man did. Culture was transmit- For whom the native culture the terrains of the artistic, liter- heritage? Than this private
There is no culture common to ted orally from generation to is strange, they will not ex- ary, philosophical, linguistic, encounter with our columnist
all indigenous tribes and there generation. This has led some perience the spirit of a real historical, ethnographic, and anthropologist is just that. Ses-
sions created in a gorgeous
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