Jose's family.
世話になったJoseさん家族と記念撮影。

They were very nice family. They provided me a room, prepared the water for bathing and dinner.
I always meet helpful and kind people.
部屋を用意してくれただけでなく、沐浴もさせてくれたし飯も食わせて頂いた。本当ありがとうございました。アフリカの人達は本当優しい。


After I left his family and crossed couple of big bridges, I arrived to the capital, Bissau.
If I fly to east Africa, this city is the ending point of west Africa.

2ヶ所大きな橋を渡って昼にはギニアビサウの首都ビサウに到着した。もしこの先東に飛ぶならここが西アフリカの最終地点という事になる。



Unfortunately, this city was not comfortable to place to relax and think of my destination.
They have no power during the day time; some hotels and apartments have own generator that only start night.

そんな記念すべき場所になるかもしれないのに、全く居心地の悪い町だった。電気が昼間無い。ジェネレーターが場所によって動くので夜は電気が付く。



There were no cheap hotels or guest house. I looked around the city for long time but only found an prostitution apartment. It cost 10000CFA, about $20, very bad service.

宿がどこも高い。自分は小汚い売春宿に10000CFA、約2000円払った。


This city was not all bad. They had some interesting sight. Since they were portugal colony, there were some colonial buildings remained in the old center. If they could repair those buildings, this city would be more attractive for tourists.

そんなビサウ。ポルトガルの植民地だっただけあってカラフルでコロニアルな建物が市街に残っていて、整備すれば良い観光地になるかもしれない。









Even they had a wharf for cargo-ships.
コンテナ船も着く岸壁もある。



Fishing harbor
漁港。



you can take a boat to the small islands from here. There will be postcard beach with no tourists.

ここから小さな島々に渡れる。まだ観光地化されていないから良い感じだろうね。


The market was very crowded. This market was situated along the main street so all traffic had been blocked out by pedestrian. Looked bad city planing.
市場。すごい人。国道脇に市場があるから人や家畜の往来で交通機能が麻痺してしまっている。いずれ別の場所に移さないといけなくなるだろう。





People here were also gentle and helpful.
They were very curious about random Asian cyclist. I got surrounded by people several times.
Some people just helped me. They didn't expect anything.
I was impressed by their hospitality.

ビサウの人達もおせっかいというか世話好き。自転車で走っているとすぐに声をかけられる。毎回面倒だけれど、彼等は至って友好的でただ何かしてあげたいらしい。ホテル探しに付き合ってくれた兄さん達や、ギニア大使館探しに付き合ってくれた人達、最後はみんな何も求めず帰って行った。観光客が少ない分、人がまだピュアな感じがした。