Charlerman man who accompanied malaria and typhoid in Congo, stuck stuck visa

Hello, Bike around the worldTakuya SAITO @ Chalidermanis. From Gabon of Central AfricaCongoInto the capital cityBrazzaville (Brazzaville)We aimed. In the Congo, 80% of the road was unpaved, it was a daily scratch with overturning. heremalariaWhentyphoidI fell asleep, complaining. It was a miserable situation to receive treatment as receiving an infusion or injection at a hospital. The capital city Brazzaville can not get the next country's visa. It was a tough journey and I had to make a big decision.

Brazilian capital of Congo is around here.

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We will aim at the Congo border from Ndende in southern Gabon.


Traffic volume is small, and occasionally such cars pass.


One piece of past the village of Doussala last in Gabon. I will finish Gabon's departure procedure here.


This was the border between Gabon and Congo. I completed immigration procedures at Ngongo, the first village of the Congo.


This is the inn that there is only one in Ngongo. I will stay here for 1 night.


Easy room with only bed.


But there were fluorescent lamps and electric fans. It was a village without electricity, but this inn was turning a generator.


Goats are swagging around the inn.


Compared to Gabon, garbage on the side of the road has increased. It is not a pleasant one.


There was a beautiful river by walking a few minutes from the inn. I wash my body here and wash it. In doing so, the children took a wooden canoe and flowed to the downstream. "What are you going to explore?" The children's face was fun and funny.


Proceeding south from Ngogo,DolisieI will aim for.

Of course it is a paved road.


As the villagers pass by, the villagers go down to the side in total. It is like a spectator on a side street watching a marathon player, I'm happy and embarrassed.


Because the relatively flat road continued, I was able to run anyhow.


Proceed through the green.


Taken the wheel in such a sandbox, once a day had fallen significantly. Pedals and shoes have been fixed, but not too late that put the foot on the ground. The number of times that he lived without what fall because I put a foot in time for the reverse was not numerous.


A large river crosses along the way.


A solid bridge was bridging.


Unpaved road to wherever.


Far from being a car, even people have not been found.


There was a path of red clay that stretches anywhere, straight.


The suburb of Dolisie was under construction, making a roundabout.


A suburb of the spread Dolisie city.


It was a process called Ngongo → Nyanga → kibangou → Dolisie.

In Nyanga I bathed in the river mixed with local people.


Children who were approaching and running away as "foreigners, caercers" near the river. I had a picture taken, but my expression is a bit stiff.


A cheap hotel with only the bed that I stayed at Nyanga.


The city of Nyanga, a quiet dawn.


A cheap hotel in kibangou where there was only bed here.


At the cheap hotel in kibangou we lent a lamp. Because there is no electricity in the town, the lamp uses kerosene. The first time I used the lamp was in Gabon, but in Congo I use the lamp several times like this. It was a valuable experience.


This is also the city of kibangou at dawn. Both Nyanga and kibangou were dirt roads with distance, so we had to start running from early in the morning.


The city of Dolisie abuts the Atlantic OceanPointe-noireIt is on the trunk line connecting the capital city Brazzaville. It seems that beautiful asphalt has been recently serviced in the city, there is no problem with electricity and water supply, and there are many things in shops. As I got along the road without road from Southern Gabon, the sense of accomplishment that I arrived at the city of Dolisie full of civilization was exceptional.

And I slept with typhoid and malaria here. I am sorry for your unsightly appearance, but please understand that seeing is believing.


The fever began to rise the next day after I arrived at Dolisie, I was asleep on the second and third day. When it gets high fever on the second day, we will start using "Cortarate" for treatment, "This must be malaria". There are people who will recover from this, but I will not recover easily. He did not go down in the next morning decided to go to the hospital if he was unlucky on this day, asked the responsible man who was traveling together asked to go to "sorry hospital" and accompany him to the hospital by taking a taxi I came. I was placed on the bed and received infusions, injections and treatments. Blood test results were malaria and typhoid fever. My doctor asked me "Is not your stomach broken?" Diarrhea was in a severe state. This is typhoid fever, so the heat does not go down.

Looking back on the course
Day 1: Increase from 36 ° C to 38 ° C. Even though there was a fever, he was doing fine and moving for a day.
Day 2: I started taking COROTIM, a treatment for malaria, who sleeps under high temperature around 40 ° C.
Day 3: High fever around 40 ° C continues and sleeps. I will decide to go to the hospital if I do not have a fever tomorrow morning.
Day 4: No fever in the morning, see a doctor in the hospital and get treatment for infusion or injection.

The responsible person got the medicine at the pharmacy in the hospital.


What can be thought as a cause is well water that I was drinking on and on and on and on.


As a side effect,
· Traveling on unpaved roads continued for 4 days, 50 km, 50 km, 90 km, 100 km. Especially for the last two days it was a tough run with distance.
· I did not eat a lot of things for the past 4 days. In the village in the middle of traveling I could not find a dining room, so I had bread and cheese in the morning and noon.
· Bottle juice and bottled beer were equal in price since entering the Congo, and if you drink anything, you were choosing a cheap beer. As usual I did not drink so much, I opened a bottle every day, so it may have burdened the liver.

Syringes used for treatment


After the examination, I went back to the hotel without being hospitalized and stayed at rest. Malaria went to a hospital for 4 days, asked her to inject an injection of a medicine, and typhoid feverCiprofloxacinI was treating with intensive antibiotic oral dosing. I will head for better after I go to the hospital. Eventually I was in Dolisie for nine days.

However, typhoid fever has been vaccinated in advance, it is also recommended at the Japanese embassy in Morocco. There was advance informationMeningitisI had vaccinated, but I did not typhoid fever. That is the result. I should have done it somewhat troublesome. When high fever comes out in West Africa, I first suspect malaria. If it is high fever due to typhoid fever, the judgment will be confusing. Although it was good because there was a neat hospital in a big city, it would be horrified if you thought you had a onset in a rural village.

Also,
· That there was a responsible person traveling together. It is reassuring when someone is there.
· Being in the town I was watching a hospital in the suburbs. I was relieved that the newly built building was like Europe.
· Mr. Okura who was accompanying was hospitalized for suspected malaria in Cameroon and cost was estimated.
· There was a doctor dispatched from Cuba to the hospital, traveling in Latin America and communicating with a proficient person who is proficient in Spanish. Thanks to that, I saw a detailed medical condition.
And the situation was also blessed.

Charida traveling in West Africa has a high probability of malaria with a high probability. So, I also carried a clinical thermometer measuring the high fever, which is a characteristic of malaria, and CORETIM, a treatment for malaria. However, I do not think that it will affect typhoid fever. Until I went to the hospital, my physical strength fell down in a situation where I could not get foods with high fever, diarrhea and nausea, which was a miserable situation.

Tropical fever malaria prevalent in West Africa has the danger of becoming severe and leading to death unless you deal with it promptly and properly among malaria. I was traveling in West Africa at a near real timeJapanese coupleI lose my life as a malaria symptom in Bolivia in South America shortly after the flight. That is why I wrote various things.When traveling in Africa please keep firm with meningitis, typhoid, malaria and disease.

I will aim for the capital city Brazzaville when I recovered. It was a process called Dolisie → Nkayi → Loutete → Mindouli → kinkala → Brazzaville.

The tropical rainforest like Gabon was not spreading, it was a lonesome sight that the grassland spreads.


Because the road surface is solid, it is a dirt road which is easy to run.


Dolisie to the town of kinkala continue unpaved.


It was a completely unbelievable situation.


Because Dolisie to Brazzaville is a trunk line. If it is said in Japan, it will be like Nagoya from Tokyo on National Route 1. The railway is running, but the road is not yet paved. Although I had a civil war, I could not understand the situation. In the same way the main lines of Cambodia, East Timor and Sierra Leone which had civil war were paved ... .... Even Gabon did so, but I'm curious what you were doing since independence. Just from Dolisie to Brazzaville, the Chinese-led road construction has begun. From the Pointe-noire to the Atlantic Ocean to Dolisie, the pavement was done.

The church was doing a good shape.


Children who were troubled for doubtful Charidder 's visit. I had some small birds.


Children who peeped in during a break at the borough hut.


If you take pictures with such children, you will get rejoiced.


Children were also watching the situation while taking a break. When taking out the camera, I took a pose and touched it. It is a strong stand.


You can not enter the city of Mindouli unless you cross the road that runs next to the road.


The girls who have been talking to.


Is this also a scar of the civil war? The desolate Mindouli station building.


Between Dolisie and Brazzaville, there was more ups and downs than between Ngongo and Dolisie and it was serious. It will not do anything if it is an uphill in sand.


If the sand is deep, I can not get on my bicycle, I had to get down and push it. Dust is mixed with sweat in the sand and it is incredibly dirty.


It was finally a paved road at Kinkala 75 km from the capital city Brazzaville. From here to the Brazzaville are paved. Dolisie also ended a four-day dirt road. Thank you for your hard work.


Congo had just finished civil war, and there were many stormy towns, but the country was calm. In the past traveler's record, there was a story of bribe demand cops and robbery damage, and I was pretty worried but there was not any problem. It was fun being surrounded by bright children and rustic people. I have never seen figures of adults and children lining by side by side.

The Congo when I was planning around the world was a civil war and it was a country where I can not travel. But Charida runs through the peaceful country. It was good that Congo could run also following East Timor, Kosovo, Sierra Leone. Iraq and Afghanistan, which can not run now, will be able to run someday.Wishing as a charrider to be able to run around the world by bicyclemaybe.

Dolisie's building where the scars of civil war remain.


From Brazzaville of Congo,Democratic CongoofKinshasaI was going to go to. These two Congo are separate countries. A Democratic Congo with Kinshasa would be easy to understand if you say Old Zaire. The former Zaire is a large country with an area of ​​about 2.34 million square kilometers, a population of about 63 million and located in the middle of Africa (Congo has an area of ​​about 342,000 square kilometers, a population of about 3.7 million people). To distinguish between these misleading two Congo, we add Congo Brazzaville, Congo Kinshasa and the name of the capital afterwards, call Brazzaville as Congo in English, DRC as abbreviation for Democratic Republic Congo. Will it be a Republic of the Congo and a Democratic Republic of the Congo if it is Japan? This time we will call Brazzaville to Congo and Kinshasa to Democratic Congo.

Accommodation where I stayed at Brazzaville.


The next day we arrived at Brazzaville, I went to the Democratic Congo embassy to apply for a visa and said, "If I get the next Angola visa, I can issue a visa." It is this condition with a tourist visa though it does not take transit. Like the Cameroon capital Yaounde it was not easy to get a visa. So I will try to get an Angola visa, but here is nothing to do. The more problematic the country, the less visa can be taken easily.

The Democratic Congo had refrained from presidential election and national election in November. This is why it is not possible to get a Democratic Democratic Congo right now. Dictator in 1997MobutsuThe head of anti-government guerrilla who kicked outLaurent KabilaBecame president. However, he will be killed by escort soldiers. The current president is the sonJoseph KabilaIn 2006, it was elected President by election. As 2006 was the first election since the civil war ended, this year's election will be the second time. Democratic Republic of Congo with a vast country land is one of the world's leading resource countries such as diamonds and cobalt, andCongo disturbanceThere is a history that has been touched by other countries for a long time. There will not be any other unstable elections. That's why I do not want to show it to foreigners. I do not know what will happen.

Beyond the Zaire river is the capital of Democratic Democratic Congo. It was near by, but it did not reach.


It is my second experience that I get stuck with my visa unavailable. May 2008 I could not get a Chinese visa in Hong Kong before the Beijing Olympic Games. By returning Hong Kong and China have become the same country, there are still borders under one country two systems. And Hong Kong was usually a place to easily get a Chinese visa. When Japanese travels in China, visas are not necessary for up to two weeks. I came to Hong Kong from Vietnam in two weeks after entering southern China. I planned to run from Hong Kong to Shanghai or Qingdao and plan to return to Japan by boat, but I do not get any visa. In two weeks without a visa it was not enough time and I flew back from Hong Kong to the local Fukuoka. Hong Kong at that time did not reach China even though it was nearby.

And I decided to fly again this time.


I left Japan in May 2009 and I have connected the rucks of my bicycle to this Brazzaville. Sometimes "I ran from Japan and came here" was a real feeling of traveling anything. It is regrettable that it will expire here. But it can not be helped. I switch my mind and run a new place.

I headed to East Africa.

(Sentence / photo: Takuya S. Narou Charriderman
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