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# Tumba

Tumba is a musical form native to Bonaire, Aruba and Curaçao.

[Plan a trip to Tumba](https://www.mixroutes.com/?to=Tumba)

## Every way there

- Search from wherever you are; the planner compares train, bus, ferry, flight and road.

The field note

What is in and around Tumba, ranked by how widely it is written about, how you reach it, and the nearest places where we have researched how people move.

[Read the note on Tumba](https://www.mixroutes.com/notes/tumba)

What Tumba has

- Y Scheduled flights Stockholm (ARN), 50 km
- Y Trains and coaches Transitous carries 1 timetable feed for this country, 0 with real-time
- Y Ferries Slagsta, 7 km, Trafikverket Färjerederiet; sailings estimated
- Y Driving and taxi OpenStreetMap roads; cab fare from the country band
- N Bike and scooter share no share feed known
- N Cruises no open itinerary source anywhere

Y routable now · F found, not yet implemented · N no source known.

59.199°, 17.833°

The name comes from the Bantu culture in Congo. It is of African origin, although the music has developed since it was introduced on the island in the 17th century. The Curaçao-born composer Jan Gerard Palm was the first composer to write Curaçao tumbas. The lyrics can be very explicit. Nowadays, Tumba takes influences from the merengue and Latin jazz.

How locals move

## Getting around Tumba the local way

- Get around Adelsö is connected to the road network by a free-of-charge ferry, which is used by bus 312.

From [Wikivoyage: Ekerö](https://en.wikivoyage.org/wiki/Eker%C3%B6), CC BY-SA. Not yet checked by us. Last edited 2025-09.

Text adapted from [Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tumba_(music%29), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photograph: Diego Delso (see Commons), Wikimedia Commons.


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