Kura Hulanda and Curaçao Feature in South China Morning Post
12 July 2006 | Hong Kong, China





Kura Hulanda Lodge at Westpunt and Kura Hulanda Museum in Otrabanda are featured in an article on Curaçao by Judith Ritter in the Travel section of Hong Kong's premier English language Newspaper - The South China Morning Post.

Quoting from the article:

3. Museum of slavery
Step into the dark history of a sunny island at the Museum of Kura Hulanda. The museum pays homage to the worst period in Curaçao's history, when the island was the largest transport centre for slaves arriving in the New World. Built on the site of an old slave yard, it houses a collection that documents pain. Visitors can try on a rusty set of shackles, feel the deadening weight of a slave collar and rattle the chains,hanging from a ceiling, used to punish anyone who tried to escape. A replica slave ship, with its dark, cramped hold, gives a sense of the terrible journey from Africa to Curaçao.

9. Just chill
No Caribbean vacation is complete without taking to a beach hideaway
with nothing to do but relax. The Kura Hulanda Lodge, in the most remote
part of the island, has a superb beach, a Zen meditation garden, a prehistoric cave to explore and even a tree house if an ocean-view suite isn't enough. An architectural must -see is a soaring, eight-metre-high, thatched-roofed, open-air restaurant built by Colombian Indians flown in from the jungle .