oh bonaire such a beautiful beautiful island i've had so much fun cruising around for the last week
and in today's video i'm sharing with you all the things that really surprised me about this
island and spoiler alert it's in a good way and i wanted to share these things with you
because i think they will help you to plan your trip if you're considering coming here coming up
and if you're new here i'm christine with where in the world is cL and i make travel videos
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number one is i really thought that this was a destination that was
just for divers because if you don't dive you should not come here and that is not the case
we got divers in the water here but there are plenty of sites because this is a short diving
destination to snorkel also i'm at 1 000 steps right now on the northern side of the island
and this is a great place if you don't die to get in the water to snorkel
the second one is the number of options of extreme sports wow i was watching the
kite surfers yesterday so amazing you can come here and take kite surfing lessons and
the number of people i have seen riding their bikes as i've been riding my scooter around the
islands has been awesome but there's a lot of options for kite boarding kite surfing biking
hiking there's a lot of things you can do on this island if you want to get pretty active
speaking of pretty active i'm really glad one thousand steps isn't actually one thousand steps
i mean can we talk about this view i was really surprised by how phenomenal
the view is i shouldn't have been surprised but honestly i haven't missed a sunrise or a
sunset it's that good and helpful tip if you're going sunrise sorobon beach on the east side
amazing and for sunset honestly anywhere on the west side so so
the roads beautiful roads surprised me this is a highway this is queen's highway
do you see how highway this is you gotta share this road
with people going in both directions so it's not exactly a well-developed island which is
why the reef is so amazing but this is the highway the roads there are not that many
on this island so very small islands but i was very surprised by how how the roads are
speaking of diving i was also surprised by how many shore dives there are on this island it's
what it's known for these bugs also surprising the number i know it'd be a lot of bugs but
on this where was i i have been impressed by how many mosquito bites i have gotten on this
trip maybe this will protect me i am just i have been eating alive oh my god they're in my eyes
i digress the number of shore dives on this island is almost a hundred
and i've also been impressed by how in shape you need to be to be able to shore dive so
do your squats if you're coming here to dive
one of the things about diving here is it's so popular because the reef is in
phenomenal shape for the last 40 plus years they have done
so much to preserve the reef and do a lot to make sure that it's in really good health
for example i didn't know that if you drive a boat out here you can't drop an anchor for example
it was really cool on some of my dives to see the coral reef farms but they do a phenomenal
job of preserving the reef and taking care of the ocean here which by the way if you're getting some
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below if you're considering coming to bonaire or if you know of this place i knew about bonaire
two weeks before i booked this trip so that's why a lot of this is a surprise to me but
this is a buffet make sure you check the time stamps below because i laid it all out for you
in case you want to jump around all right let's dive into the next one which is the housing
the housing on this island is super nice whether it's the residents that live here up
in the hills looking over the ocean or is the villas that you want to rent
but it's phenomenal you can get really modern beautiful accommodations a lot of them have
been built within the last few years but there's a really great amazing selection of vrbo airbnb etc
whether it's these goats or the donkeys that are here they do have a donkey sanctuary or tons of
flamingos there's beautiful parrots everywhere tons of iguanas and geckos and lizards and
there's some cool stuff on this island and don't forget a lot of mosquitoes
a lot of mosquitoes to be honest that one i think is still in my eye
the next one is the landscape i mean i've been to aruba before but it's still weird to be on
a desert island in which you've got beautiful cactus beautiful palm trees and then a beautiful
ocean on the other side but this landscape really surprised me that's a lot of shoes
i would say the next thing that surprised me is the culture there's really unique culture
on this island again because i didn't know i was coming here until two weeks before and didn't even
know this island existed i didn't know it was owned by the netherlands but i've linked some
interesting articles below for you to read up on it but it's really humbling to explore the island
see the slave huts listen to the language primarily dutch and a creole language papiamento
but it's just really really unique and with this island being owned by the netherlands it means
that a lot of people from the netherlands and a lot of people from europe come here there are
lots of direct flights from amsterdam that are very inexpensive so there's a lot of money on
this island and diving is not a cheap sport and so the prices on this island not surprising actually
are relatively expensive compared to other places but you'll see yo yo surprising going
back to how active this island is is there are so many crossfit gyms i swear it's like going to new
york and seeing starbucks there's like problems i digress that was not helpful back to helpful stuff
the next thing that surprised me is how empty this island is it's insanely empty actually
i've been cruising around with no traffic no lines no nothing it's really really beautiful
even at the dive sites it's really rare to see someone else on the island and right now as i'm
traveling here in august 2021 it is the busiest this island has been in a very long time they
have slammed it's actually really hard to get a rental car which is why i have a scooter but even
though this island has a ton of tourists on it it feels insanely empty and that's a great thing
the next thing that surprised me is the water you can drink the water here it's purified it's
some of the purest water in the world and i've been drinking a lot of it it's really freaking
hot which the weather i didn't realize that the location of this island the abc islands in general
are outside of the hurricane belt and so it is 81 degrees year-round and it very rarely rains
actually it only rains one day on this trip and it's been really really beautiful another
thing i was surprised by is how awesome the grocery stores are this grocery store
is super nice you should check it out and also the wine selection there are so many wine shops
on this island and there's no shortage of drinking amazing wine wherever you're at this next thing
that surprised me is you you don't lock the car in other words when you're at the dive site you
don't lock the car because i'm diving here with someone who's been coming this island for 20 years
and one of the things is there's a bunch of punk-ass kids on the island that will
steal and they're just looking for things like your gopro your iphone your wallet stuff like that
they're they're not gonna take the dive tanks but you leave the car unlocked so that they
don't break the window and take your stuff so when we go diving there's nothing valuable in the car
oh here's one that surprised me there's not a lot of big name hotels on this island this
is the courtyard marriott these really colorful little houses but there you go not a lot of big
hotel names if you've had some fun with me in this video cheers that like button consider subscribing
and tell me in the comments if you haven't already which one was most surprising to you
oh i'm surprised not surprised by how much i'm gonna miss bonaire it's been a fantastic trip but
it is time for the next adventure i hope to see you over there ciao
tell me in the comments below on a scale of one to ten how weird do you think that guy thought i was
uh cause i'll just give you a little behind the scenes of how weird this looks right now