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Rather than being in Kosovo and reaching Pristina on foot in a few days, Sonavane had to interrupt a peace march from Belgrade to Pristina at the Merdare administrative crossing, from where he was returned by the Kosovo police.
“When we got to the crossing, we handed over our passports and after about ten minutes, the policeman said that the Japanese monk could continue the journey, but I could not, since the citizens of India must have a visa to enter Kosovo,” he said Sonavane to RTS.
He says he calmly accepted the decision and hitchhiked back to Belgrade.
“It is my mistake, because I was informed before the trip on the website of the Serbian government, where it says that people go to Kosovo with valid documents, without a visa,” explained the Indian pacifist.
Nitin Sonavane has been walking for four years and prays for peace in more than forty countries.
The last consecutive march, the Indian computer engineer departed from the New Belgrade park where the monument to Mahatma Gandhi is located, from where he left for Pristina with a Japanese Buddhist monk.
He will celebrate the holiday and the 151st anniversary of his role model, Mahatma Gandhi, in Belgrade, sending messages of peace and non-violence to the whole world through social media.
Serbs are very friendly and hospitable.
Sonavane and Ikeda walked between 15 and 30 kilometers a day and made many friends along the way.
“Diana and Slaviša offered us accommodation in Lapovo, and in Osipaonica near Smederevo we were stopped by an elderly woman Nada, who did not speak English, but when we showed her a text about us on her portal, she gave us fresh fruit and invited us to dinner”, Sonavane said, adding that all the people he met along the way were friendly and hospitable.
The citizens of Udovica, Jovac near Ćuprija, Jagodina, Kruševac, Brus also provided accommodation for them.
