“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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Completed round-the-world journey in Argeria!!

Bonjour! This is Ken. Finally, I made it!
I completed the 32th stop of the round-the-world journey!!

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It was long way. 

We left Japan last June, and I went to Asia ⇒ Europe ⇒ Africa ⇒ Oceania  ⇒ South America⇒ north Central America. 

Then, we went back to Europe again, and came to Algeria. 
For a moment I thought it was great when I completed the 32th stop,  but.....I didn't feel it... Umm...Why.....? 

Then, I realized that I went to 32 countries to enjoy the World Cup in terms of 32 different perspectives. 

I won't feel involved in this unless the World Cup starts. 

The World Cup in South Africa will start in 56 days and it will end in 87 days! 

That's why this round-the-world journey continues still more! 
Today, I'm goint to briefly report about Algeria. 

Please look at the national flag in the first picture. 
A Vietnamese national flag is next to the Algerian national flag.  
It is a red one. 

Well, I heard that a VIP of Vietnam, which is the same socialist country as Algeria, is staying in Algeria.

It might be that a direct flight has been started or something like that, according to the picture of the paper.

The military and policemen were standing every 100m to the guardrail side of freeway.

The scenery went several kms.

They seem bored.

This heavy security might be due to the VIP's visiting.
But I have never seen this scenery.

This is socialism, isn't it?

Also, I noticed there are a lot of parabola antenna.

I have never seen anything like this.

I think they have more than one parabola antenna per one household....

I've got contact with a Japanese who live in Algeria, so I'm going to meet them in a few days and ask about the heavy security and a lot of parabolic antenna.

Well, speaking of a Japanese, when I was looking for an ATM in the airport, a guy called Hagiwara talked to us, "Are you Japanese?" in Japanese.

He is a mix of Japanese and Algerian, and he haslived in Algeria since he was 4 years old.

He asked me out for dinner suddenly.
I wondered if I can trust him or not.

Mr. Hagiwara guided me to the taxi stand.

I negotiated the taxi fare, but the driver offered us much more expensive one than usual.

I believe in the ethical doctrine that human nature is fundamentally good, so I feel uncertain.... See you soon.

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