HOT DAY IN A CAVE CAFE in SOUTHERN OKINAWA

            This is the "Cave Cafe" at the GANGALA FORMATIONS right across the street from the GYOKUSENDO [Cave Land] Tourist Attraction in southern Okinawa.

It's also the starting point for guided tours that, until 5 years ago, did not exist.  Before that time, I would come in here with my friends, and have the run of the place for free.

There is another cave here (not Gyukusendo Cave) that is, to put it mildly, "well hung" with giant stalactites.

It was officially called the "Cock n' Dick Cave " for many years, until a Japanese version of political correctness intervened, and all posted signs and directions using that name have since been removed.

(Pics of that cave coming soon)

The tarps over on the left cover an on-going archeological dig which has uncovered numerous human skeletons, wild boar and deer bones, and hand-made human artifacts --- all of them dated (using the latest methods) to about 9,000 years ago.

Okinawa has, for the past 50 years, continued to provide the archeological world with not only the chips and shards of Asia's oldest human presence, but also the skulls and bones to go along with them.

Something to think about while having a drink beside the buried bones of a people who thrived here long before the "great religions" of the world started popping up to save the teeming masses from themselves, and long before the "seven wonders of the world" were built.

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Taken on: July 2, 2015

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