Sunday, January 18, 2009

Going to Okinawa World...

The weather was nice yesterday which we hadn't had in awhile so we decided to go for a drive to the southern part of the island and do some exploring. We happened upon Gyokusendo Cave Park the 2nd longest cave in all of Japan (5km). The park also had a neat tropical fruit exhibit which we got to sample some tasty ice cream and samples. The Kingdom Village area of the park was a replica of a traditional Okinawan Ryuku village with workshops introducing the various traditional Okinawan crafts, such as weaving, dyeing, paper making, pottery, sugar cone processing, the making of music instruments, brewing and the more recently introduced glass blowing.

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