Obi and Udo - arrival at Sheraton hotel - 20 May 2017

bamboo trees and us

Saturday, 20 May 2017
Today, after two lovely days of leisure at the beach of hotel Prince in Nichinankaigan, we have to leave our lovely room with seaview which was our home for 3 nights and move on.

First we visited the historical city of Obi with the Samurai houses and had a real good strong coffee for a change. 

love thise ingraved glass  window

details (bottom right: snake we spotted)

bamboo trees (photo P. made, and my photo of him doing so)

wonderful room screen in one of the historic houses

koi carps in the drainage channels

coffee stop: this guy roasts the coffee beans himself, finally good coffee

Next stop: the Udo-jingu Shinto temple complex situated at the seaside. 

lots of holy rabbits

worshipping

Our home for the next 2 nights: the enormous Sheraton Grande Ocean Resort:

Leisure at the beach - 18 and 19 May 2017

the sea and us

Thursday 18 & Friday 19 May 2017: Hotel Prince beach, Nichinankaigan

Two days of leisure at the super beach of this lovely hotel. Great spacious room with seaview, good  food, but especially the beach/sea which was exclusively ours. 

the good life

 

*****

beach/bay view from our window

more reading, we didn't finish our books yet

To the coast - 17 May 2017

Wednesday, 17 May 2017
Travelling from Ibusuki to Nichinan: taking the ferry to cross the Kagoshima bay, another lovely boat trip that lasted one hour, and then driving through endless unspoiled nature (green trees and plants everywhere you look). Later on the road went along the seashore, where we found a deserted large sandy beach, which we shared with 2 fishermen, who were a few hundred meters away. 

waiting for the ferry

arriving at the other side of the bay

 Peter found an awesome almost deserted sandy beach

 leisuring

Our home for the next 3 nights is the Prince Hotel in Nichinankaigan Nango. The hotel is situated at the beach and our spacious room has an astonishing seaview. We had an unexpected lovely dinner here this evening.

room with a view 

mandatory food pic (this evening's sashimi)

As in the previous hotels we visited the swimming pool here is also closed and won't open till July (grrr). We assume we are, with an elderly Japanese couple, the only guests. Season definitely didn't start yet.

Tomorrow we will have a holiday :-)
dikke kus
Carina