Article: Aruba is a paradise worth its weight in gold.

Special to the Herald

The passengers on the "Explore Aruba Island" bus tour are eager to get back to their hotels and hit the pool or the casino one more time before dinner.

Then the driver makes an unscheduled stop in a secluded grove of flowering divi-divi trees. Three little, knobby-horned goats trot up to the open bus door and hop aboard, looking for a handout. Resort fun is postponed for a while. Everybody crowds to the front of the bus to look at the goats - living reminders that Aruba was once farm country. Gold-crazy Spaniards found the island in 1499, but Dutch farmers settled it and built its capital, Oranjestad, in the 1630s.

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