African heritage tour

General information

DestinationCategory
Curacao, Netherlands AntillesSightseeing Tours

Program details

Departing from your hotel or point of arrival, we first take you North of the island to an African Museum in a community called Asencion, that show the living history of the freed African slaves, after slavery was abolished in 1863. After traveling for 30 minutes in a comfortable air conditioned vehicle, we arrive to Kas di Pai i Maishi, described in English as the cottage with a roof made of corn stalk, this museum houses interesting ways of life of the African people, brought to the Caribbean already in 1642.


A professional tourist guide and are specific interpreter certified by the World Federation of Tourist Guide Association, will lead you through the past of more than 370 years ago, including the period before the slaves got their freedom. The interpreter will detailed the curly feather chickens, the bachelor's cave, the cactus soup tutorial, African heroes, the African tools and the traditions, from which some of them are still in place. Now we are ready to move North-west to the colonial country house or also called Plantation House of Knip, another living colonial memory of the past.


You will also taste the popular local lemonade and a piece of the pumpkin pancake that most of the locals love as dessert. Moving from this Plantation house, you are just some seconds away from the gorgeous Knip Beach, declared the most beautiful pocket beach in 1973 of the Caribbean. Your eyes will confirm the synonymous for this adventure: the natural swimming pool. After this picture stop, we will head South back to the starting point.



Meeting/pick-up point: Pick up at the hotel.

Duration:Four and a half hours.

Start/opening time: At 9am.

Languages: English. Available for groups of 10 or more in Spanish, Portugues, Dutch or German, pre-booked in advance.