Welcome to Okinawa World! Where you only have to travel about 2.5 hours from Yomitan to get to. Still not a fan of sitting on a bus! But oh well, so it goes sometimes :)
Okinawa World is a theme park in the south east part of the island. One of the main attractions is the Habu (Japanese name for a variety of poisonous snakes found on Okinawa) museum and show. It's a decent sized building housing a variety of skeletons and other bits and pieces of snakes found around the island. With a show and live animals around the top. Can't say I was a huge fan of the show - prefer to see animals out in the open than in a cage!
This is the demonstration of "hot vs cold" where they used the balloon to show that the snakes heat sensor was working. In my opinion, it's more that the orange was used to bonk the snake on the head more than heat or anything!
Bunch of pictures of the outside area where reptiles were being held.
Saw one of these fellows out on the rocks when paddle boarding.
Mongoose ball.
Sea snakes. Looks very smushy like it's been in the water too long! (Duh)
Underneath the area there is a large cave that is about 30 minutes to walk through. Tons of stalactites and stalagmites. Random selection of photos from that. Not sure why everyone is so ok with being so far underground in Japan. It's like it's forgotten how common earthquakes are here. Didn't really bug me or make me not want to go. More of a thought like: "If this path does cave in there's absolutely no way out".
Fish that can be found in the caves down there. The exit (or entrance depending how you look at it) leads out to the open air and points towards the sea.
Little bit of local fruit grown at the park. Star Apple? I think that's what it is called from when I had it forever ago. Not sure! But it tastes pretty good.
Tomorrow is the flight to Sapporo. Where I should have wifi again and can have my phone uploading pictures which usually has dinner photos. Ready to be back on the main land!