Cliff(y) Goes Travelling

424 Ishikawa, Motobu, Okinawa, Japan As mentioned in the previous post , Japan's best aquarium is the centrepiece of Ocean Expo Park that's located on the tip of Motobu Peninsula in northern Okinawa, which is about 90 km away from Naha. Of course, there are many other attractions that one can look forward at the large park that stretches about 3 km along the coast.

424 Ishikawa, Motobu, Okinawa, Japan Daily: 8.30am - 6.30pm Opened in late 2002, Okinawa Churaumi Aquarium used to be the largest aquarium in the world until it was surpassed by Georgia Aquarium in the USA in 2005. The name of the aquarium comes from the Okinawan word chura (lit. beautiful) and the Japanese word umi (lit. ocean). It welcomed its 20 millionth visitor on 30 March 2010.

[Lakeside Park] Inokashira Park, Mitaka, Tokyo, Japan Tue-Sun: 9.30am - 5.00pm First opened to the public in 1942, Inokashira Park Zoo is taking care of more than 170 animal species. It's divided into two sections: Main Park in Musashino and Lakeside Park in Mitaka. This post features the latter, which my BFF and I visited first. It's inhabited mainly by water birds, as well as fishes, amphibians and reptiles inside the aquarium.

Bapor Kibra, Curaçao Daily: 8.00am - 5.00pm The vision of a marine scientist that goes by the name Adriaan Schrier led to the opening of Curaçao Sea Aquarium in 1984. Located next to the sea, it employs the use of a simple, yet friendly technology to continuously pump fresh seawater into all its tanks and lagoons.

51 Rustaveli Avenue, Batumi, Georgia Tue-Sun: 11.00am - 6.00pm Opened to the public in 1975, Batumi Dolphinarium was the first in the whole of the Soviet Union. The facilities were upgraded in 2011 with new pools and better water filtration and temperature systems for the welfare of the dolphins.

Independence Road, Manila, the Philippines Daily: 10.00am - 8.00pm Opened to the public in March 2008, Manila Ocean Park houses approximately 14,000 sea creatures, most of which are indigenous to Southeast Asia. It includes other attractions, such as Birds of Prey Kingdom and World of Creepy Crawlies.

80 Siloso Road,  Sentosa Island,  Singapore Daily: 10.00am - 7.00pm The very first post in this blog is dedicated to Underwater World Singapore, an oceanarium located on Sentosa Island that first opened its doors to the public on 13 May 1991. After 25 years, it's finally going to close for good, with the last day of operation being this coming Sunday, 26 June 2016. Knowing that it'd be very crowded, I didn't bring Pikachu and Melon along, but I did bring Honeydew with me.