more caves and Okinawa world

More cave photos. Really cool formation - they say it took thousands of years to grow this:

M in front of a cool tree, with fortunes behind him - you either tie up the fortunes you don`t like to negate them - or tie up the ones you do like to make them come true. We can:t quite figure out which. (and if you hadn:t noticed, I can:t find an apostrophe symbol on the Japanese laptop here in the lobby of our hotel)

Lady in kimono playing a snakeskin instrument. It looks like a banjo, but I think it must be a traditional Japanese instrument.

M and me next to yet another guardian lion: