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Friday 5 december 2025
Beautiful areas around Aruba

(Oranjestad)—In Aruba,
there are tons of activities
that to enjoy during your
visit, but sometimes you just
want to slow down and en-
joy the view. Here are some
beautiful areas on the island
that will have you in awe.

The hidden Natural Bridge
Here in Aruba we have
three natural bridges and
many see this one on think-
ing that it’s the world fa-
mous one but it’s not. The cliff. weekends are just amazing
why is easy, it’s way too at this area.
dangerous to go down the Surfside Beach
cliff to reach this beauty This beach was very fa- Natural Bridge at Blackstone
and no tour companies will mous when we were kids Beach
do that. Some people re- and many locals love to As mentioned, there are
fuse to go down due fear of swim at this beach. Af- three natural bridges and
height. To reach this beauty ter some years the locals this one is in the Arikok Na-
you must go to San Nicolas shifted to the more north- tional Park. The other two
and drive up the hill till The west beaches like Eagle, Bridges you can visit by car
Point Lighthouse, park your Boca Catalina and Arashi but for this one you must
car and walk until you reach but after the government have a 4x4 jeep or you will
the east point coast and go renovated the whole area get stuck at the Andicuri
left along the coastline and it got a new facelift and its Beach.q
good luck going down the back as a family beach and

A quick snack for the road

Learn how to make the Aruban Pastechi!

(Oranjestad)—If you ever been to Aruba before, you Directions:
probably heard of (and even tried) the Aruban Pastechi. Sift your flour into a bowl
Beloved by young and old, this tasty treat is a staple for and add all the dry ingredi-
party snacks, a quick lunch or even breakfast! ents before giving it a quick
Here’s how to make the Pastechi dough. mix. Next add the butter,
water and egg and mix
Ingredients: until thoroughly combined.
•4 cups of wheat flour At this point, your dough
•1 tbsp baking powder (if using self-rising flour, omit bak- will start to get sticky; time
ing powder) for an arm workout. Knead
•1 tsp salt your dough into the bowl
•1 tbsp sugar you are using or on a clean
•0.5 cup of melted butter surface with some flour
•1 cup water lightly dusted until its sur-
•1 egg face is smooth. You’ll know
your dough is ready when it
doesn’t stick to your hands
or the surface on which
you’re kneading it. Let your
dough rest covered for 15-
20 minutes.
pastry. one another. This way the
After resting, divide your pastechis don’t stick to
dough into approximately Place the filling on your each other when defrost-
100 gram balls and roll it rolled out piece of dough, ing.
flat with a rolling pin. The fold it in half and pinch the
thickness of the pastechi sides shut with a fork. If you Here in Aruba we enjoy
depends on your taste, but have a folding tool, feel pastechi at any time of
the average thinness would free to use it for this pro- the day, but it has be-
be around ¼ inch or so. cess. Your pastechi is ready come almost tradition to
Filling for the pastechis var- for the fryer! eat pastechis for breakfast
ies according to your taste. on the way to work. Many
The easiest and most com- If you want to store some roadside snack trucks sell
mon filling you’ll find in Aru- pastechis for later use, you pastechi from early morn-
ba is a simple cheese fill- can freeze them. A good ing to noon, and offer a va-
ing. For this, we usually use tip is to place a piece of riety of fillings like cheese;
shredded Gouda, but feel wax paper in between ham and cheese; ground
free to use any cheese that each pastechi if you are beef and pulled chicken to
melts well when frying the to store them on top of name a few. q