Lu Jiabin is a senior at Nanjing Agricultural University. He loves long-distance travel. At the end of last year, he set out from Suzhou to visit Europe Africa loop line according to the plan. Before that, Lu Jiabin had been on holiday, but before that, he generally traveled around Asia or Southeast Asia, not as long as Africa.
The reason for this trip during the Spring Festival is that the outbreak of the epidemic was not taken into account, so visas and fixed routes were set months ago. With the outbreak of the epidemic in various countries, his journey began to get rough: Mali, which was forced to change its course by mistake, was in the civil war. In 68 days, he traveled 20 countries, at most 57 kilometers a day on foot
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Xi'an is Lu Jiabin's first stop.
On January 26, Lu Jiabin left Suzhou for Xi'an by train.
Then I went to Lanzhou. Because there is no place to live, Lu Jiabin can only sleep next to the ATM.
On the evening of January 30, I went to Urumqi by train.
On February 1, I flew to Kazakhstan from Urumqi.
Because Kazakhstan closed the visa free channel for the Chinese, Lu spent a day in the terminal and flew to Moscow that night.
In Russian time, Lu Jiabin went to see the aurora in the territory of the Arctic circle.
After returning to Moscow, Lu Jiabin's bus trip began:
First Ukraine
Then Belarus
Then the three Baltic States
Then Finland, Denmark, Poland. Then take a bus from Warsaw to Switzerland
Then Germany, France, Spain. Lu Jiabin's journey here was quite smooth.
The difficulty began in Mauritania.
When passing through Rousseau port from Mauritania to Senegal, Senegal cancelled the visa free entry of Chinese citizens due to the epidemic, so rujiabin was refused entry by Senegal. He can only return to Mauritania.
However, since it has already left the country, it needs to apply for a new visa before returning to Mauritania. That day, Lu Jiabin came back and forth to apply for a visa.
After finishing the visa and returning to Mauritania, lujiabin spent a week in the capital Nouakchott. It is precisely because of this week that he missed the best time to cross West Africa. Most African countries can only take international buses on the last day of international air navigation.
During the week in Senegal, the epidemic in Africa became more and more serious, and countries began to close their borders and cancel international buses.
There is no way for lujiabin to go to the east of Mali.
Lu Jiabin is staying in Mali, which is in the middle of civil war. So far, he has passed through 20 countries and regions, spending 35000 yuan. As for the cost, Lu Jiabin said that his long-distance travel generally won't cost a lot of money, because he knows where to live and what kind of transportation to choose.
Next, after signing from Ethiopia, lujiabin plans to take a boat to Yemen, then from Yemen to Oman, then to the Middle East, along Iran to Pakistan, then back to Tibet from near Pakistan, and then back home from Tibet. He expects the journey home to take about two months.
Lu Jiabin now lives in the home of a restaurant owner in Mali, who has taken him in because of his street life. He said that in fact, the world is very beautiful. It's hard to meet desperate situations. Most of the time, you can meet good people.