TO ISHIGAKI: funaura

lunes, 16 de marzo de 2015

7.3 Iriomote jima (Pinaisara Falls)

Thanks to great guide Naoko san -karmy walk- I could visit Pinaisara falls.

To reach the Hinai river needs a long hiking through the jungle, amazing ferns ...

and huge "looking glass tree" famous for its large upwards-growing root structure. They can be seen in many parts of the island.

This wood resists moisture and it was used for boat rowers.

Pinaisara waterfall, 55 meters, is the highest one in Okinawa.

Can be found on the upper portion of the Hinai river.
The trail is not so precise, expert Naoko san knew even shortcuts and different ways to go up and down.

Some times not so easy :)
(joking, don´t be affraid)

Wonderful view of the Hinai river and Funaura.

NEXT : 8 Yubu island

7.1 Iriomote jima

Iriomote-jima is forty minutes far from Ishigaki by boat.

When I was preparing this trip to Okinawa at home, in Madrid, Iriomote seemed to me the island of Jurassic park.
Daab san told to me that in fact the movie, or at least some parts of it, were made in Kauai island in Hawaii which many people say ressembles very much Iriomote.
Walking through Iriomote I tried to see the dinosaurs... Not dinosaurs, not even Iriomote wild cat but all others, birds, turtles, spiders, amazing ferns, tropical and subtropical plants, mangroves, rivers and waterfalls, an explosion of nature.

"Yamaneko", Iriomote wild cat (lynx) is there. Ads talk about him, but he is not so visible, he was discovered in 1965 and it is estimated they remain 100 of them, they have a huge wild land to walk through without being disturbed.

Second largest island in Okinawa, 289 km. square, 130 km. of circumference and 2.279 inhabitants according Iriomote brochure.