Illustration credits
Our location drawings share the vintage ink-and-watercolor style of Aruba Sightseeing Tours. They are artistic interpretations, with stylized light, color and surroundings.
Beaches and landmarks
These drawings adapt the photographs credited below. Changes include illustrated rendering, stylized color and resized web delivery. The applicable Creative Commons license linked with each source also applies to its adapted illustration.
Tres Trapi
- tres-trapi-cove · Celebrity Cruises · Reference only; no reuse license verified
California Lighthouse & Sand Dunes
- File:California Lighthouse, Aruba (4901988814).jpg · David Stanley from Nanaimo, Canada · CC BY 2.0
Eagle Beach
Malmok Beach
- File:Malmok Aruba DSCF0907.jpg · joskrum · CC BY 2.0
Palm Beach
- File:Palm-Beach-Aruba-2013.JPG · Bjørn Christian Tørrissen · CC BY-SA 3.0
Oranjestad
- oranjestad-color · Caribiana · CC BY-SA 4.0
Arashi Beach
Boca Catalina
- boca-catalina · Aruba Tourism Authority · Reference only; no reuse license verified
Alto Vista Chapel
- File:Alto Vista Chapel, Aruba.jpg · Erik Cleves Kristensen · CC BY 2.0
Philip's Animal Garden
- philips-macaw · Philips Animal Garden · Reference only; no reuse license verified
- File:Philip's Animal Garden, Alto Vista Noord Aruba 01.jpg · Ginelly.Q · CC0
The Butterfly Farm
- butterfly-farm · The Butterfly Farm · Reference only; no reuse license verified
Restaurants, shopping and essentials
Venue and food drawings use these visual references:
- Santa Anna Pharmacy: reference photograph.
- Horacio Oduber Hospital: reference photograph.
- Madame Janette: reference photograph.
- Passions on the Beach: reference photograph.
- Quinta del Carmen: reference photograph.
- Papiamento: reference photograph.
- Ruth’s Chris Steak House: reference photograph.
- Yemanja Woodfired Grill: reference photograph.
- Local Store Aruba: reference photograph.
- Bugaloe: reference photograph.
- Smokey Joe’s Island Grill: reference photograph.
- Patrizia’s of New York: reference photograph.
- North End Pub & Grill: reference photograph.
- Alfie’s: reference photograph.
- Super Food Plaza: reference photograph.
- Palm Beach Strip · Paseo Herencia: reference photograph.
- Renaissance Marketplace: reference photograph.
Fast-food, grocery, fuel-and-ATM, clinic, church and golf drawings are original editorial illustrations of food or services, rather than depictions of specific buildings. The Bali Retreat pool and airport arrival drawings are reused from Aruba Sightseeing Tours.
Illustrations created with AI-assisted image generation, October 2026. Source photographs are credited for reference; they are not republished here. Restaurant illustrations do not represent a fixed menu.
Villa services
The four service portraits are original AI-assisted illustrations created for Bali Retreat in October 2026. Their hand-painted style follows the villa’s illustrated journals. People and vehicles are representative, not portraits of named team members or a guarantee of a particular vehicle. Additional scenes reuse the villa’s existing journal illustrations.
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