Japan 1: Holiday greetings

This years holidays lead me again to the incredible islands of Japan. It's not that I plan to go there again and again, circumstances just force me ;-) This time we have attended the wedding of close friends (best wished to them!). While in Japan we traveled around to interesting spots including the lovely Iriomote island, a nearly sub-tropical island 3000 km south of Tokyo with rain forests, lots of mangrove trees and funny colored local animals.


Iriomote is famous for the 'Iriomote Yamaneko', the local wildcat. Only 100 of those are still around and the chances to see those is slim. Nevertheless they have lots of signs telling you to slow down to avoid roadkills. We did not spot any cats, not even while trekking trough the jungle to see some waterfalls.


Maybe the best feature of the place (from my point of view) is that there so few tourists, that all the beaches are empty, hehe :-)


Coming next: The latest infos from Tokyo DisneySea, the worlds best Indiana Jones theme park.