2 Best Sights in Bonaire

This distillery in the tiny village of Rincon produces some of the most distinctive cactus-based spirits in the Caribbean, including vodka, gin, and several special blends dedicated to each Dutch Caribbean Island as well the original Spirit of Bonaire liqueur. The company also makes an acclaimed award-winning top-shelf rum called Rom Rincón, and a special whiskey dedicated to the pioneer of dive tourism, the late Captain Don Stewart. Sample all the fine sprits (and cocktails made with them) in a lovely tropical tasting garden and learn all about the process on-site. You can also purchase bottles to take home.  

Rising like mountains of snow towering over lakes of pink-hued water, Bonaire's salt pans are hard to miss. Harvested once a year, the "ponds" are owned by Cargill, Inc., which has reactivated the 19th-century solar salt industry with great success. Look in the distance across the pans to the abandoned solar saltworks that is now a designated flamingo sanctuary. With the naked eye you might be able to make out a pink-orange haze just on the horizon. This sanctuary is completely protected, no entrance is allowed, and it is one of the world's largest flamingo populations and breeding grounds. The flamingo is Bonaire's national symbol.