Loisir Hotel Naha

Travel Blogs from Naha

The Good, The Bad and the Tugly

A travel blog entry by f.goldthorpe

... these pieces that the people actually pulled on. Men in costume with whistles were attempting to coordinate the crowd to pull together. They were standing right on the enormous rope. The winning side would be the one that could move the rope 5 meters in their direction. A time limit of half an hour was given. Graeme and I actually got blisters giving our all for the cause. There were definitely thousands of people pulling on the rope but there were also thousands ...

Finding Nemo

A travel blog entry by f.goldthorpe

... All of this was for a fee but I think we got good value. The variety of fish and coral we saw was astounding. We even got to swim with a couple of sea turtles!

We were back just about noon and had a meal at another local establishment. Graeme and Bryan headed out to another beach for more snorkeling but I was wiped from the morning’s dive and slept for a few hours.

When the guys got back we set off up the street for our dinner.
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Sayonara, Japan!

A travel blog entry by photosbyaiyer

This was our last full day in Japan. I had class via internet in the morning so we headed out for an early lunch after that. We ate at the local Italian restaurant where I had some amazing eggplant curry. (I know – it makes no sense that I ate Indian food at the Italian restaurant in Japan, but that is the way it was!) Then, we had some time to kill before Josh got off work. We went back to the American Village ...

Shisa, Bingata, and School Life

A travel blog entry by photosbyaiyer

... Thankfully, Dibbie was able to help us decide what to order. (No, we have not yet mastered Japanese.) Shekar and Dibbie had the Okinawan delicacy, Taco Rice. I had traditional noodles and rice – served with sea grape salad. (I am starting to get the hang of using chopsticks and slurping noodles!) After we ate, we went into the village to see the history ...

Okinawa

A travel blog entry by sarah.mansergh

... admission includes tea and local cookies! All of these made for an awesome afternoon experience of the castle.

On the day before our start to China-Andrea was invited along to view one of the dragon boat races at a nearby beach. Despite a call for a typhoon the waters were dead calm and the ...