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Article: Island adventure: in the year of the reef, Bonaire offers great diving and protected coral.
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- E Magazine
- Article date:
- November 1, 1997
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In stark contrast to the runaway American-style construction on neighboring Aruba (McDonald's, Burger King, Subway, a water-intensive golf course and numerous American hotel chains), the island of Bonaire, in the Netherlands Antilles off the coast of Venezuela, remains a quiet getaway and dive headquarters. Although bigger than Aruba, the island has only one-tenth of Aruba's annual tourists (60,000 versus 600,000).
Bonaire itself has superb and protected coral reefs, but its tiny and undeveloped sister island, 1,500-acre Klein Bonaire, has even better formations. It's some of the best diving in the world, attracting a truly international clientele to the small hotels ...