Trail 5 - Lagoon 11 k
This trail
provides the most diverse terrain in a single trail and is the personal
choice of the hardcore off-the-road set. It takes you down dirt roads,
by maize fields and old slave style native houses and up a rocky path
to the top of one of Bonaire's highest points for an incredibly beautiful
360° view of the island, winding up at a secluded lagoon where you can
kayak.
Halfway into the ride, you've got to get out of the saddle and pump uphill in your lowest gears. The road is deeply eroded and rugged with lots of tuna cactus (the ones that look like Mickey Mouse ears) sprouting up in the middle of the trail. Very suddenly, you're at the summit seeing a panorama stretching from Kralendijk to Lagoon and all the way round to the lighthouse at Spelunk. It's breathtaking.
Back down
the hill, you're soon peddling steadily along the flat surface to Lagoon,
the site of the oldest known settlement on Bonaire. It was here that the
Arawak Indians first landed when they came in canoes from Venezuela. 
Artifacts unearthed by
archeologists in this area are the oldest on the island.
Pick up your kayak here and after some serious paddling in the lagoon, get ready for some easy peddling as the wind pushes you along the 3.2 k of paved winding road back.