We said farewell to the Yafusos and flew to Ishigaki Island. From Ishigaki, we took a boat tour to Taketomi Island, which population is only 342 people; so more tourists visit each day than their own. What is the island famous for??
Water buffaloes,
This dead looking plants, growing from the stone fence, are the water buffalo's favorite food!
In Okinawa, people traditionally build stone fence around one story houses to be protected from typhoons.
Beach with star shaped sand also attract lots of tourists.
Taketomi so-ki soba, buckwheat noodle. So-ki soba is a Okinawa cuisine. So-ki means a bamboo basket in the Ryukyu language. Since a bamboo basket resembles its shape to pork spare ribs, So-ki soba has pork spare ribs with the cartilage still attached on top of buckwheat noodle. Yes, David ate it and loved it.
The tallest point in the Island.
A scene from the tower.
It will be a fun project to make a shell curtain when we have a beach house someday.
P.S. Matt, even though water buffalo were famous there, they did NOT have buffalo milk like we had in Cairo!
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