THE Traveler: Mick Richards of Burnsville. The scene: A Divi divi, or watapana, tree turns golden at dusk on Aruba, a Dutch Caribbean island off the coast of Venezuela. These trees are known to point ...

At first glance, the landscape of Aruba looks more like a desert area than a lush tropical island. There are rocks, cactus plants, and the unusual twisted trees known as the divi-divi, which all bend ...

The Dutch island of Aruba has a coastal landscape contrasting some of the best beaches in the world with a desert landscape of cacti, aloe plants and dramatic divi-divi trees. Aruba is south of the ...

Aruba has a lot going for it as the tourist mecca of the southern Caribbean. That includes some of the best beaches in the Caribbean, its aquamarine waters, first-class hotels and restaurants, ...

If you’ve been dreaming of a tropical vacation all through this blustery winter (and snowy spring), there’s no better place than Aruba. The sandy, secluded beaches of the Dutch Caribbean island, the ...