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Why You Should Not Miss Aruba’s Free City Center Street Car Tour

oped into a pollution-free you close to different mu-
pedestrian mall. The dou- seums, historical plazas, The “Tram van Oranjestad”
ble-decker offers you a 360 monuments, the Protestant starts from a balloon loop
degree view of the down church, Aruba’s high- end near the Port of Call and
town area with a picture mall, retail shops, and a va- serves the downtown area
perfect scenery of the is- riety of local and interna- and ends at Plaza Nicky.
land’s clear blue skies. Who tional cuisine restaurants. The first ride starts at 10:00
would not enjoy a ride on The “I love Aruba” trade- am sharp with intervals of
this beautiful and naturally mark also belongs to that 25minutes. The last trolley
air-conditioned vehicle? list. The third stop on the departs from the cruise
The tour consists of a total route is close to a 5-minute port at 5:00pm. Don’t miss
of 9 stops approximately walk to the famous Renais- this tour of the beautiful
200 meters apart from each sance Marina showcasing Aruba’s City Center– it is
other; all stops are clearly luxurious yachts and Aru- free for all!q
marked. The tram will bring ba’s blue waters.

ORANJESTAD - Aruba’s seats and a double-decker
City Center Street Car - with 64 seats. The line was
or as we call it in Dutch; inspired by the popular
“Tram van Oranjestad’ - is battery-powered streetcar
a single track tram line in operation at the Grove in
Oranjestad, the capital Los Angeles, USA. Aruba’s
city of Aruba. It was inau- streetcars are powered by
gurated on 22 December hydrogen fuel cells, which
2012, being the first and so are charged by the island’s
far the only passenger rail year-round trade winds.
service on Aruba and the
rest of the Dutch Caribbe- Caya Betico Croes, mostly
an. There are two trolleys, referred to as our “main
a single-deck one with 42 street” has been devel-