We arrived early in the morning at the very colorful island of Curacao. We had a very full day planned with an excursion from the ship. Once we got onto the tour bus we headed to the other side of the island and went to the home/museum of Yubi Kiridongo. He is known on the island and throughout the world as "The Bumper Man". He is an artist that uses recycled items, mostly car bumpers and parts, as his medium of choice. Here is a picture of his very colorful house.
We were welcomed into his yard and introduced to Yuri under this huge canopy of plastic crates. Amazing that he had them all wired together using old wiring and it provided great shade and was a very "happy" place.
He had tons of stuff that he had created using all sorts of things. We got to tour inside and outside of his house. The yard gave new meaning to "yard art". He decorated every blank space with some creation. Here are my favorites.
Here we are with Yuri. He was even asked to create for the the past Olympics.
Next we headed off to the Hato Caves. These are enormous caves that many of the slaves used to hide from the plantation owners. They are really big and even have the fire soot marks on the ceilings from the fires used by the slaves while they were in hiding, sometimes for many months.
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