“The Peace” in Algeria.

Assalomu alaykum! This is Atsushi.

(Assalomu alaykum is hello in Arabic, which is the official language of Algeria..)

Many French breads make the old man BIG SMILE.

Of course, I love beautiful landscape pictures. But I also value these everyday sights.

Algerian eats French bread because of the colonial background of France.

In any restaurants, you are always served French bread at first. Sounds like Algerian live on French Bread as Japanese live on rice : )

The street stalls had a lot of faked soccer Jersey at sale.

Soccer is the most popular sport in Algeria. It is no exaggeration to say that soccer is the greatest sports ever in this country.

A dandysh old man was selling vegetable in Casbah Market

The day passes peacefully. So, I almost forget that there has been many terrorisms happening in Algeria.

But once you step in backstreet, you will see the impact.

A lot of paints everywhere on the wall 

which has Algerian national flag.

Look at that picture. There is the sun coming out behind the heart. I love this radical design !

At the square near Casbah with young Algerians.

We saw a lot of people wearing soccer jersey.

The kid was playing soccer on the street.

He is so charming.

Since we visited Algeria, we have been thinking about what the truth is.

That is, mass media always tells us that Algeria is a dangerous country for terrorisms. However, you never know this peaceful aspect of Algeria unless you step into the place for real.

It is no use in discussing it is truth or not.

What we need to do is knowing that the both aspects are true.

But, I guess if a terrorism happens in front of me, it will change my world all of sudden.

Anyway, I hope my first impression of Algeria is the truth.

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