(Last posts about January. Slowly catching up.)
On the northern end of the island, near the city of Nago, is an area called Ocean Expo Park. It covers a rather large area and contains several different sites, including the Churaumi Aquarium, several gardens and arboretums, a native Okinawan village, and a museum. On this trip, we visited the one of the arboretums, called the Greenery Kingdom, and the Tropical Dream Center, a large indoor/outdoor garden walk, featuring hundreds of orchids and an observation tower. Again, another pictorial post.
the walk in
these sorts of water jets are fairly common in gardens like this. too early in the year for it to be on, though.
what they called an English-style garden, basically a hedge maze. neat though.
there were bees on its flowers
a long arbor covered in vines
they called this area "salt wind trees". all the trees here are hardy in the ocean winds.
the Okinawans like cute things, apparently, because frame creatures covered in flowers are quite common.
(see part 2 for photos of the Tropical Dream Center)
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