Easter

The Easter tradition on Bonaire is to close everything and go camping.

The locals build wood pallet encampments complete with water tanks, stacked speakers and cooking pits. The campsites look like homeless encampments. Tents line the beach, smells of BBQ's are everywhere and music is blaring. 
 

The festivities begin the day before good Friday and go through the Monday after Easter Sunday.

Everything shuts down for the four-day holiday weekend.  There have been no cruise ships in port for four days. The government is closed, grocery stores are closed, many restaurants are closed and even the Chinese markets close.  I don't think the Chinese celebrate Christian holidays because they were open at Christmas.  I guess Easter is a bigger event.

Everything shuts down for Good Friday.  Since 60 percent of the people on the island are Catholic it makes sense...for someone. Everything  re-opens on Saturday. The grocery stores parking lots were packed.  They were double and triple parked. The main grocery store street was gridlocked. Everything closes again on Easter Sunday.  It's Armageddon, Dutch style.

To top things off, the Dutch government observe the Easter Sunday holiday on Monday.  This extends the Dutch Armageddon.