Northern Okinawa

Chad had to work on Saturday, so we didn't have much of a weekend. We wanted to make the most of Sunday, so we decided we would head north and go see some waterfalls. If you recall, we've tried to go to the waterfalls once before but we couldn't find water shoes. This particular waterfall has you hiking through a stream the whole time, so we wanted water shoes. Well we finally found some and found the time to go check it out! We took the expressway to Nago hoping to avoid any possible traffic. We were following directions that we got off from Okinawa Hai. We got so close but the road that we needed to turn down was blocked off! There were trees down on the road from the typhoon a few weekends ago and I guess they hadn't got to pick up that area yet. That was kind of a bummer! Well we had drove all that way so we needed to find something to do while we were up north! We saw signs for Cape Hedo on our way up. I looked on the map and saw that it was the most northern point of Okinawa. That was our new game plan! The farther north we drove, the less cars we started to see. It is a lot less inhabitable up there than it is down south, but it's oh so pretty! There are mountains and beautiful views!

On our way to Cape Hedo, we saw a sign for Kayauchibanta Viewpoint. It sounded cool, so we decided to follow the signs there. It took us up a mountain to a beautiful look out point. It would have been a ton more pretty if it wasn't such a gloomy day! It had been raining off and on and it was really foggy. The pictures on Okinawa Hai look so much better than the ones I took. We're going to have to head back up there on a clear day, just to see how much prettier it is!

After getting back in the car we continued to follow the signs for Cape Hedo. It wasn't much further and we finally arrived. Cape Hedo reminded me a lot of Cape Zanpa, where we visited last weekend. I personally liked Zanpa better though. That may have been because it was such a gloomy day that the water wasn't as pretty as when we went to Zanpa on a sunny day. It's just a bunch of cliffs that drop right off into the water. It was so windy! Overall, it was pretty sweet to see and to say we've been all the way north! 


On the way home, I told Chad to drive back on the other side of the island since we haven't been on the east side too much. Big mistake. It was so boring! On the way back, it was curvy mountain roads with nothing to see but trees. At first it was a nice little break from the hustle and bustle of the towns but after awhile, it was quite boring. Every once and awhile we would drive through a tiny village, but that was about it. I'm glad we took that route just to say we did it but I don't think we'll be going back that way ever again. We will definitely be making a trip all the way north again on a more pretty day!