Blogs from Okinawa, Japan, Asia - page 20

I posted up 30 photos, which i'm proud of from Okinawa. I only had a weekend to spend there, but we made the most of it by renting a car, taking it off roading, island hopping, snorkeling, joy riding, fires on the beach, questionable late night swimming, fires on the beach, japanese ofuro (bath)... good times... keep reading all keep me posted.. - Zach Ok, so next up for me will be a weekend spent in the city of Hiroshima. Instead of being cultural and riding the bullet trains of Japan, I expect to hop around the local JR train system of Japan as to save money in this expensive country. Did you know the most expensive city in the word is Tokyo and number 2 is Osaka??? Two most in the world both in the ... read more

I suppose one of the best, and worst, things about travelling is that you meet some amazing people and make a lot of friends but you only ever have such a short time together. Some people you know that you will talk to after your brief encounter and others you know that they just came into your life for a passing moment and left their mark. I love both kinds naturally, but it doesn't make it any easier to say goodbye. I left Miyakojima today and it was very hard to leave everyone and the island, it felt like I had been there forever and I really did make some good friends, who would have thought hey? I definitely want to return there sometime, whenever that time may come. I highly recommend going there if you ... read more

So I'm in Ishigaki now and this place is the most beautiful place I have ever seen. I spent the rest of the afternoon on monday walking around the shops in Naha again and even though my boat didn't leave til 8pm I planned to get there around 7pm just to be on the safe side, so i started to make my way back to the ferry terminal around 6.30pm that evening, knowing it may take me a while to walk back with my backpack, and it probably sounds silly that I went that early but I used every minute of that time, as things turned out not as I would have hoped. Not bad, but well let me explain... I walked to the ferry terminal that I had been dropped off at the night before ... read more

Hi. sorry for not writing anything for the last few months but I will try to give you the highlights. The last few months have been eventful to say the least both in good ways and bad ways. towards the end of November I had a confrence in Naha which was a lot of fun. I got to go and check out mainland Okinawa which was great and I got to check out the aquarium on the upper end of the island. In mid December I got into a car crash. I am Okay but the car was totalled and it turned into a big debacle because my supervisor either forgot to or didn't bother checking what type of insurance I had and just assumed and told me that I was covered for anything, which I ... read more

We had been to Maeda misaki (point) several times for scuba diving, and snorkeling but on this occasion we were there with a different mission. We were determined to find some rockclimbing routes we had been told were there. We walked all over the area, into and on trails that we didn't even know existed. In fact, during our search, we actually stumbled upon a geocache (our first) and that is where I caught the bug for that sport. When you park at Maeda, you can travel to the left and find these really cool areas that have lots of great rock formations with beautiful sand beaches. We explored a few of the little caves and rocks we found. Unfortunately, the rockclimbing routes were not on this side. We moved over to the parking lot again, ... read more