It is not a cheap airline, but I tried returning home with Emirates Airlines via Dubai, incredible cheapest flight connecting South Africa and Japan

It is serious in JapanCheap airlines (LCC)of"Peach"Began to service. Sky price destruction by cheap airline company (LCC) all over the world is occurring. I was able to realize myself from Cape Town in South Africa that I went back to Japan. However, the ticket you picked is not a cheap airline (LCC). Via Dubai with ordinary in-flight serviceEmirates Airlineswas. Flight tickets50, 7294 yenis.

Hello,Around the World Bicycle WorldIt is Takuya Sudo @ Chaliderman. I am temporarily returning home. This timeCape Town tourismIt is a journey from the end to returning home.

A taxi arranged by backpacker headed for the airport at 200 ZAR (about 2000 yen). When you knock down the rear seat of the trunk, you can stack up to the big box with the bicycle in. Despite the fact that the baggage of Emirates Airlines was more than 30kg compared with ordinary airlines, the bicycle box was heavier than I thought and went on at check-in. Still, reduce the package and pass.

A beautifully maintained airport in Cape Town.


A bicycle box and stick bag are checked baggage.


Wait for boarding in the departure lobby.


A boarding pass you got after checking in.


Wings were spreading "British Airways"


And this is the airplane of "Emirates" that I used this time.


I get on board.


It is a flight to Cape Town in Japan from Cape Town in South Africa via Dubai in the Middle East. Originally I flew from Cape Town around Germany and planned to run again in Europe. There was a prejudice that tickets from South Africa to Japan were high. But it was cheaper than I thought to try cheap airline tickets by using the Android application of the smartphone when I suddenly came, so I went back to the temporary home this time.

An airplane that flew away from the airport and raised its altitude northwards the continent of Africa, heading for Dubai in the Middle East.


Flight ticket at Emirates Airline office in Cape Town5775 ZARwas. When you convert it to Japanese yen50, 7294 yenAnd cheap tickets. Still Emirates is not a cheap airline (LCC), so there were of course in-flight meals.

A bit of juice and sweets came out.


There is a guide on in-flight meals.


In-flight meal menu for lunch.


I chose beef curry.


It is such a shape when opening the lid.


In-flight meal menu for dinner.


I made dinner for a fish.


I have wine.


Let's kill the time with an in-flight display for hours other than meals.

In this way all the seats were equipped with a display.


You can control the volume and channel with this controller.


The back side of the controller was a satellite phone.


It seems that you can talk by loading a credit card.


You can display images from the camera attached to the exterior of the machine on the display.


We also got information on the altitude, the outside temperature, the speed of the flight, the distance to the destination.


There were contents such as movies, music, e-mail (charge), games.


Tetris came out. You can operate with the controller of the previous photo.


I can listen to music, but I do not understand recent J-pop.


You can also watch movies. Keigo Higashi's original work "Wing of KirinIt was flowing. In the play Gacky 's depression "falling short in dreams, not being sweet in the world, not chasing dreams ...".


I arrived in Dubai for about 8 hours flight from Cape Town. You have to change trains here. I walked in a long long airport. Although time is midnight, it is crowded like a shopping mall in the daytime. Both white people, black people, Arabs, Chinese people and Indian people have figures of many people. And also the appearance of the Japanese.

Dubai's airport terminal where a lot of people go and go.


The whole airport of Dubai's airport is said to be in this form.


Since it is a long terminal in any case, there were many moving walks.


Departure lobby where there was coconut tree with image of Middle East.


The window seen to the top here is the atmosphere of the Islamic mosque.


Cape Town → Dubai and Dubai → Kansai International Airport also sat down by the window. The flight from Cape Town was a two-row seat, but the flight from Dubai was a three row seat, so it seemed that the fighter was bigger by size. Flights from Cape Town were nothing but Japanese, even Eastern people were sparse cabin. However, the flight from Dubai is full of Japanese people just heading to Kansai.

It's midnight, but food in the cabin has appeared.


In-flight meal of breakfast which chose Japanese food, not Western food.


The plane was flying towards Osaka.


I landed in Kansai by flight about 9 hours from Dubai. I should have returned home for the first time in three years, but unfortunately the sky is not welcoming ... .... Excuse me. Still it came back safely. I get a stamp and receive my luggage. I need to withdraw yen from ATM and travel to Japan until local Fukuoka. "Lawson" "McDonald" "Tsutaya" in the airport, and nostalgic Japanese air is nostalgic. But the price is high and it dents.

Landing in Kansai. Although I was at the window, I could not see anything.


It is a place soon after it got off.


The place where I got off and the main terminal were away, there was a train just for moving there.


The time difference between Cape Town and Osaka is 7 hours.


I am happy to be Japan "return home", not "entry".


This time50, 7294 yenI returned from Cape Town. However, when searching for flights from Japan under the reverse conditions100 thousand yenYou can only find more than.

In the Middle East not only Emirates based in Dubai this time but based in Abu DhabiEtihad Airways, Based in DohaQatar AirwaysIt is attracting a large number of customers with low price. The Middle Eastern airline was connecting Asia and Europe, Asia and Africa, Europe and Africa via the Middle East. Ethiopian Airlines from Brazzaville in Congo also extends Ethiopia to many places. The Europeans I met in Kenya also used Ethiopian Airlines.

I have realized the cheapest airline company (LCC) since I was in Australia in 2007. There were many Taiwanese of working holiday where English can not be in Darwin as the frontier of Australia. From TaiwanJetstarMove to Singapore at there, from thereTiger AirwaysThe route which is getting down to Darwin is the cheapest reason. In Southeast Asia, backpackers can ride "like a high-speed bus"Air AsiaI was also listening to the story.

A receipt when I bought this ticket.


Japan is crowded with "Peach", but South Africa has "MangoThere is a cheap airline company (LCC).


Amid such a fierce air war, can Japanese airlines be able to do?


I arrived nearby in the evening so I spent the day at the airport and started moving the next morning. Huge cardboard with bicycle in Kansai is difficult to handle. Kansai is an artificial island, and a bridge connecting artificial islands and land can not run on a bicycle. Therefore "Even if you ask the information desk of the airport" what to do with a bicycle, "I want you to listen to a railroad company," you will not have the point. I got on the train by saying "I will be alright if the box remains as it eats down." Since I can not move on the road, I want to ride the train with the bicycle as it is until about the station and one station in front.

A GIGAZINE reader living in Wakayama brought in the insertion to Kansai and was impressed. Thank you very much.


Terminal in Kansai.


"Hotel Nikko Kansai Airport" in the nose of the Kinku


I'd like to ride the train, but I can not pass.


Get off at "Rinku Town" which became one of the Kansai airport stations. Here we assembled the bicycle and ran to Osaka city.


In Osaka I got a face on where I am indebted, or I met a friend again. I also did sightseeing. Tsutenkaku in Osaka is not defeated by the topic Sky Tree now. The neighborhood of the New World was crowded.

Osaka dome.


new world.


And Tsutenkaku.


I wanted to go up but I was waiting 50 minutes ... ....


After finishing staying in Osaka, I have to go back to the local Fukuoka. Shortcuts that take 600 kilometers on land are connected between Osaka's Nanko and Shimokyo ports in KitakyushuPrestigious ocean ferry. I will cross the Seto Inland Sea by boat. It was booking discount on the internet, it was 6300 yen by bicycle with the cheapest grandparents' room.

I took this ferry.


Dining room with mixed sleeping which feels traveling.


I used the National Highway No. 3 from Shimogi to Fukuoka. I ran near 90 km, but it was hotter than Africa. Because there is humidity it answers. Route 3 of Fukuoka → Kitakyushu ran many times and I realized my homecoming as a nostalgic landscape. I enter Fukuoka city, pass through the eastern ward, and you will see as if you come close to Tenjin in downtown area. Fukuoka's Sky Tree ... "Memorial photograph somewhere" ... I tried to make it like a goal at Fukuoka Tower.


Asia, Europe and Africa, which took three years from May 2009, ended without any problems. A bicycle with 100,000 km in 100 countries The goal for the world has also reached 80 countries and 90,000 km. After that we only leave the Americas. I will start again when I get ready at a temporary home.

(Sentence / photo: Takuya S. Narou Charriderman
Cycling around the world for a bicyclehttp://shuutak.com)