Okinawa Honto - first impressions
April 13th 2014 Okinawa Honto (沖縄本島) is the main island in the 1000km long Ryukyu Islands stretching from southern Japan to Taipei. It is a tiny scrap of subtropical green in a huge vastness of ocean. It is small - one third the size of Kangaroo Island and one sixty-fifth the size of Tasmania, with a population of 1.4 million. The skyline is low jagged mountains floating above calm azure seas, punctuated
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