The Bonaire Botanical Garden, Kralendijk

The animals are in very tiny cages it pains me to see them in such distress. Aside of the animals the garden is nothing special, there is little information about the pants (which are not special plants for the island) and you have to pay 10 dollars to enter what is basically a poorly kept garden with poorly kept animals. Would not recomend this to anyone.

So, this is a seriously bizarre experience. It's not a botanical garden so much as it is a trip down the rabbit hole of ancestral-mystic-pseudo-science backyard gardening. You'll learn about many traditional herbal treatments as well as the owner's fondness for drinking sea water. Bone wind chimes, a children's playground made from found and recycled materials, an Alice-in-Wonderland dining table in the middle of the menagerie. These and many other oddities await you. It's fabulous. Go. The $10 admission is well worth the experience.