Carla Fishing Charters – the best fishing boat near you!

Almost every family and group of friends that have booked with Fishing Charters Aruba had their hands-on big fish and a lifetime of experience on waters.

Warm, sultry Aruban air and turquoise-colored water is a match made in the heavens, and you can find some of the tastiest fishes in there. How come you have kept yourself away from an adventure so pure for so long?

Carla, one of the best deep-sea fishing charters on the list, takes you on private 4, 6, and 8 hour-long expeditions around the Aruban seas.

With space enough to hold six people, a nice sunshade, a restroom, and 2 fishing fighting chairs, it has everything you need to catch and celebrate fish onboard.

You can have sodas, water, snacks, baits, and snorkels, all in a trip with Fishing Charters Aruba. A first mate will always be by your side to assist you in fishing. And the biggest perk when fishing with Carla Fishing Charters Aruba is that you can design your trip. You can choose to stay around the harbor or move to the rougher oceans. It's all up to you!

So many beaches to choose from!

Authentic locally made souvenirs. Also, there is a big local arts and crafts market every Friday night at Renaissance Marketplace. Aruba's colorful and compact little capital city is easily accessible by public transportation from the main tourism areas. Moreover, the Arubus terminal is in the middle of town. Oranjestad is also an inexpensive cab ride from most major resorts.

The very best view of the entire wreck with the least physical exertion, snorkel toward shore first to the tip of the sunken ship. Then, turn around and let the current guide you back to your tour boat. With almost a dozen sites to see sunken wrecks, Aruba is a haven for snorkelers and divers. And the S.S. Antilla is one of the most popular. But this sunken 400-foot German freighter wasn't "wrecked" by typical means. It was intentionally scuttled (sunk) by its crew to avoid the Dutch marines from taking possession of it the day that Germany invaded the Netherlands during World War II in 1940. The crew was arrested, leaving the ship to sit just offshore in shallow waters completely intact until storm swells in the 1950s caused it to break into two halves.

The farm's Nectar Café sells homemade goodies, frozen treats and some adult libations, too. Take a free souvenir photo of yourself at the butterfly wing mural or don the colorful, adult-sized butterfly wings that hang from a tree outside the cafe.

This colorful attraction at the beginning of Palm Beachbeside the Bubali Bird Sanctuary is home to hundreds of exotic butterflies and moths from around the world, including the famous blue morpho.

Arikok National Park is a vast expanse that covers nearly 20% of the island. Visitors will be surprised by its arid, cacti-studded starkness at first, but there is hidden life within. Everyone who wishes to enter must stop by the Visitor Center to pay the conservation fee, but the center is also a great place to speak to park rangers, pick up maps, and learn about the flora and fauna you'll encounter.

The Donkey Sanctuary Aruba is a nonprofit organization devoted to saving the island's donkeys and educating locals and tourists on their care. Donkeys used to be the main form of transportation on the island, but once cars took over, they were left to wander in the wild. Fortunately, the ones who can no longer fend on their own due to sickness or injury now have a forever home at this wonderful retreat.

The name "garden" in this instance can be misleading as it might depict a small floral area where little critters abound. It is not. This is a sprawling farm in Noord with playgrounds and lots of room for children to run while they get up close and personal with all kinds of animals, including ones you'd not expect to see on this island. But this is not a zoo. It's a nonprofit animal sanctuary founded by local Philip Merryweather, who began collecting unwanted animals who needed forever homes. It started small, but soon he found there were so many abandoned exotic and large animals beyond domestic pets that needed space, he expanded to build this massive ranch.

Wear comfortable walking shoes and be prepared to take a small hike around the grounds on the winery tour. Aruba Nature Tours does an awesome sunrise yoga hike that starts at the chapel and ends at a secret beach.

Alto Vista, which means "high view," is a neighborhood within Noord (north) in the interior of the island. It's best known for the Alto Vista Chapel, the first church to be built on the island dating back to the Spanish missionaries in 1750. It is still in continuous use; you'll notice the stations of the cross marking the pilgrimage route on the way up to its summit where you'll be rewarded with stunning views. It's a popular stop on almost every island tour, but you're welcome to visit on your own (it's accessible free of charge).

The catered sunset dinners on top of the lighthouse are becoming very popular for surprise proposals. And the windswept California Dunes next door are ideal for long romantic sunset walks by the sea.

Named after a wooden steamship (the S.S. California) that shipwrecked off this coast in 1891, the lighthouse was constructed in the early 1900s to warn future ships of the reef perils. Completely renovated in 2016 to allow visitors to safely climb the 117 stairs to the top for panoramic views, today, it's one of Aruba's most popular tourist attractions.

Most island tours stop here, so if you want to get cool pics from the window frames looking out to sea without getting photobombed by tourists, go very early morning so you can have the ruins to yourself.

Visitors are often surprised that Aruba had an actual gold rush a long time ago. But there are remains of gold smelters standing on the island, and the one at Bushiribana is the most stunning and accessible.