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Tuesday 16 May 2017
Visit the New Aruban Donkey Sanctuary in Bringamosa!

For guests there is a cozy ing documents have been
visitors’ center where one signed and then the don-
can have a cold drink on keys will have 120.000
the covered porch, buy a square meters to play in:
souvenir in the shop and eight times bigger than our
make a stop at the rest- current location at Sta. Lu-
rooms. All this makes a cia, where we housed our
visit to the Aruban Don- donkeys at no cost during
key Sanctuary worth your the past 20 years courtesy
while. Not everything is of the Paris family. It would
100% finished, but there is be very nice if you came
more than enough ready by to meet the donkeys in
to adequately welcome their new habitat; it could
visitors. Depending on our be an educational way of
finances, the rest will be spending your free time.
completed `poco poco’; Enjoy sipping your drink or
the cost alone of fencing eating an ice cream at
in a 120.000 square-meter Bringamosa. Take the road
area with donkey-proof at your left to Frenchman’s
fencing is enormous. It is, Pass when coming from
however, necessary, as Santa Curz and take a left
BRINGAMOSA - After al- mosa all the donkeys are these are often donkeys roaming donkeys are a again as soon as you can.
most 20 years at Santa Lu- together, plus there are lots with traumas following hazard in traffic. From there you will find
cia, it became high time for of new facilities: six stables abuse or an accident. The new Donkey Sanctu- signs how to find our new
the Aruban Donkey Sanc- for sick or pregnant don- There is also a spacious ary has it’s start on a ter- Donkey Sanctuary. You
tuary to move to a newer keys, who may be nursed location for donkey feed, rain that is rented cheaply are more than welcome
and larger area to house and taken care of in a safe running water and electric- from the government. It from 9am until 4pm. Please
its 130 donkeys, so recently environment. ity; especially water is a first is currently 22.000 square come! For more informa-
the new Donkey Sanctu- The stables are baby-proof, necessity for the donkeys. meters, but the remain- tion, call 593-2933.q
ary’s doors at Bringamosa so that newborn donkeys
opened wide for all to en- can take their first steps
joy! The new opening hours there. There is also a don-
are from 9am to 4pm, ev- key aid station for veteri-
ery day of the week. nary treatments and den-
The move was unavoid- tistry; they can be washed
able, as the herd had be- there too, if necessary. A
come so large that it had donkey KIA (prison) will in-
to be housed at three dif- carcerate the animals that
ferent locations. At Bringa- are not 100% to be trusted;