I've never expected before that I turned into 30 years old in Sumatra. My cerebration at the beginning was not so good. The bridge on the way was just corrupted last night due to the strong wave in the time of high tide. So I needed to take a different way that was dusty and rocky unpaved road.
30歳の誕生日をスマトラ島で迎えるなんて過去に考えた事もない。誕生日の出だしは最悪。昨夜の満潮時の強い波で、通るはずだった橋が崩れて通行止め。おかげでホコリだらけのデコボコ道を走って遠回り。 ![]() After that, my birthday became better. The road was along a very nice white sandy beech-side road. It's very quiet and relaxing. When I visited a police office as usual to ask if I can stay there, I met nice people. They took me around the town, Painan. We saw such a beautiful sunset and had a nice dinner. How nice my birthday was. その後は、誕生日も良い方向に向かう。道は最高に気持ちいい、白い砂浜沿い。静かな癒しを感じながら走り今日の目的地へ。いつものように警察署に泊まる為に交渉しに行くと、良い人達に出会い、街を案内してもらったうえ、最高に綺麗なサンセットを見させてもらった。何だかんだで、良い誕生日 だったな ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() |
I've not taken any day off for a week so it's day of resting today. Mostly spent the time for washing cloth, checking my bike, eating snack and checking Internet.
一週間程休息をしてなかったので今日は一日休憩。洗濯、自転車いじり、栄養補給、インターネットなどなどして一日終了。 Will start pedaling again tomorrow. 明日からまた走り出すぞ(^O^)/ The hotel I stayed, 泊まったホテル 100000RP ![]() ![]() 夕焼けに染まるジャングルにこだますアザーン。神秘的です。 |
I'm getting weak by end-less steep upping down. The road in here are always up down and snaking. It makes cycling very difficult.
ショウスイしてます。ほぼ行く道全て急なアップダウンの繰り返し。そしてクネクネ。自転車はキツイ。 When I faced a big steep hill, I really want to go up strait by force of going down. But due to bad constriction of the road, in many places, I need to go down slowly. Its so frustrating. 急な坂を目の前にして、急な下り坂を下る時、下った勢いそのまま登り切りたいが、道が悪くてスピードをおとさないといけない。本当がっかりします。 |
About 600km cycling in Sumatra, I am still in south part. Its still 1100km left to get to the port where a ferry going to Malaysia is. Sumatra is too big for 30 days visa extended.
I probably should pick up speed. My visa will be finished on Nov 5th. 600kmスマトラ島を走ってますが、まだまだ南です。マレーシア行のフェリーが出る街まで、まだ1100km。30日のVISA延長だけじゃキツイ。あんまりゆっくりしてられない。VISAが28日にきれるから、ペースをあげなければ(^_^;) Another problem I'm facing is broken my cycle computer. I can't make sure how long I go so far each day. Now, I'm just asking people or guessing. In this situation; no cycling CP, it's a bit pain. もう一つ問題。サイクルコンピュータが壊れた。どれくらい進んでるかわからない。今は想像にまかせるか、人に聞いてます。VISAがギリギリな今、ちょと痛い。 ![]() |
There are so many small villages and communities along the road.
When you go through a village, almost 100% people are waving their hands and says 「hello, how are you!!」or「Turist!!」including gramma and grandpa. 道沿いに沢山小さな村や、コミュニティがあって、通る度ほぼ確実に、ハローとか、バウアーユーとか、ツーリスト!!とか声をかけられます。 Seems people in here are extremely welcoming tourists. However, I feel sometimes It's little bit too much because people in almost whole community look at me and trying to say hello to me. Sometime a lot of kids are chasing behind me. スマトラ島の人達は、かなり、かなーりフレンドリーなような気がします。時々、ちょっと疲れますが(^_^;)だって、村を通るたびに、ほぼ村全体の人達が声を掛けてきますから。。。時には大勢の子供達に追いかけられます。 Anyways, so far so nice in Sumatra; cycling along beach and jungle and very less traffic compared with Jawa and welcoming people. そんなんですが、自転車でビーチ、ジャングル沿いの道を走るのは最高です。何より交通量がジャワ島と比べてかなり少ないし、人がフレンドリー。 ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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