2 days from Bulawayo, I reached to the border of Botswana. I camped at the police station last night. Seemed my new cloth worked for appearing better.
I met a journalist for Zimbabwe chronicle and had an interview. She told that it would be on weekend newspaper. I'm regretted that I wouldn't be able to look at it since I am getting out of Zimbabwe.

ブラワヨを出て2日でボツワナ国境に到着した。昨夜はまたもや警察署にお世話になった。服を新調して小綺麗な格好だったからなのか即答で野宿を承諾して頂いた。ここでジンバブエの新聞記者とたまたま会い取材を受けた。週末の新聞に載るらしいけれど、もうジンバブエを出るので見られない。


Japanese doesn't need a visa for Botswana, so it was easy to cross the border. However, the regulation of bringing things into Botswana was more strict than I expected. I was forced to eat all bananas I had otherwise I loose all bananas.

ボツワナはVISAが必要無いから手続きは至ってスムーズに済んだ。が、国内への持ち込み規制が厳しくて、バナナをゲートを出る前に無理やり5本も食べさせられるはめになった。基本的に食料品は全部ダメらしい。




Botswana is really a flat country. The scenery doesn't change for miles and miles, but the crowed on the sky was like one of the best art.

ボツワナに入ると起伏が殆ど無くなって、単調な道が続く。ただ、サバンナの上をプカプカ浮かぶ雲を見ながら走るのは気持ちが良い。



The population of this country is only 2 millions even though it is about 1.5 times as big as Japan. The most of the people stay in southern region, so the north where I'm cycling is very open. I don't see any people walking between the villages. Since that reason, I couldn't end up any village at the first night, so I camped in a farmland.

この国は日本の国土の1.5倍くらいあるのに人口は200万しかいない、その大半は南部に住んでいるから、今走っている辺りは町を一旦出ると人が全くいない。ボツワナ初日は村にたどり着けなくてアフリカに来て初のブッシュキャンプになった。


It was at least wild animal free since the farm was all fenced off, but the bells of caws were very noisy.

牧場の中にテントを張ったから、牛の鈴がうるさくてなかなか寝付けなかった。牧場はフェンスに囲まれているから、ライオンとかゾウに襲われる心配は少ないので安心ではある。