At the end of the day, along the Pafuri or Lingbobo River in Shingwedzi, you have a good chance to see a large number of animals: hippos turn their ridiculous ears, yellow-billed storks wade through shallows with pious habits, calm Egyptian geese, crocodiles appearing in every sand dune, malachite kingfishers in gorgeous clothes, giraffes who come to the water's edge carefully to drink, and huge herons and three-pointed owls who are poised. North Kruger has not only biodiversity, but also splendid historical sites. There are many residential sites in the late Iron Age in lamela, which have been restored and protected.
The ancient stone walls and giant baobabs evoke memories of the gold trade in ancient Africa, which was centuries earlier than the European exploration. Researchers speculate that lamela was related to the ivory and gold trade civilization in Africa 1000 years ago. It starts at Mapenggubwe near Musina, then goes north to Greater Zimbabwe, and then south to lamela. Masorini site near Farabowamun is relatively old, dating back to the 20th century. It shows the forging of molten metal and forged iron in iron age residential areas. Maybe these ironware are used for trading. It fully shows that a technologically advanced economy has been formed here before the arrival of Europeans. Both websites have guides.
North Kruger also dismantled the fence with neighboring Mozambique, which is one of the pioneering works of Dalinpo International Park. It will become the largest wilderness area in the world, covering an area of 35,000 square kilometers. The official tour route connecting the two parks has not yet been determined, but some travel agencies are operating camping tours to Mozambique. Excellent facilities and rest camps (Satara, Sinwezi, Mopani, Letaba, Olifanz and Maria, Peng Da) have been well maintained. All large rest camps have electricity supply, emergency rescue centers, barbecue and community kitchen facilities, shops, restaurants, supply stations, laundromats and public telephones.
At each campsite, there are various accommodation options, from campsites to family holiday villas. Some even have swimming pools or meeting facilities. There are some smaller jungle campsites. Although there are few facilities, it can be closer to nature. Kruger has some private luxury outdoor hotels that will satisfy those who want to spend money and have fun. Wild campsites and particularly popular hiking trails are most suitable for people who want to seek wild excitement, and they usually need to be booked one year in advance. Table Mountain Table Mountain, in Afrikaans, is Tafelberg. South Africa's Pingdingshan, overlooking Cape Town and Table Bay, stands at the northern end of the towering and rocky Cape Peninsula. Its flat hills are formed by sandstone layers exposed to strong winds and running water.
The mountains are covered with clouds, which quickly form when the southeast wind blows, which is the main factor for the lush vegetation on the plateau. Five alpine reservoirs store rainwater brought by the northwest wind in winter. The annual rainfall at the top of the mountain is 1525mm (60 inches) and at the foot of the mountain is 559mm (22 inches). There are 250 kinds of vegetation. There is a cableway (built in 1929) and more than 350 roads leading to the top of the mountain. It is the Maclear Lighthouse near the northeast of the highest point (Maclear Lighthouse; 1086m [3,563ft]), founded by Sir Thomas Maclear in 1865. Table Mountain is located in Cape Town, the capital of South Africa, which means Cape Town.
This famous city is located at the two ends of the earth, facing the sparkling Atlantic Bay in front and a grotesque mountain in the back, which looks like a huge rectangular table. I don't know which elder had a sudden inspiration first, and called it Table Mountain bluntly. There is a natural harbor in the bay opposite Table Mountain, named Table Bay because of Table Mountain.
Like an old man sitting on the Atlantic Ocean, Table Mountain at an altitude of 1087 meters is the most authoritative testimony of South Africa's modern history in the past 400 years. There are two hills on the side of Table Mountain near the Atlantic Ocean, which are called Lion's Head Peak Signal Mountain. The steeper peak on the side of Table Mountain in the south of Cape Town, South Africa is called Devil's Peak. They are like the right-hand man of Table Mountain, hugging Cape Town at the foot of the mountain. Every summer (10 to March of the following year), the southeast wind carrying a lot of water vapor is blocked by Table Mountain and suddenly rises rapidly. Under the action of the cold air at the top of the mountain, it condenses into rolling clouds, and then covers the table mountain evenly from the mountainside like a thick velvet tablecloth, which is very spectacular.
There is also an old and interesting legend about the cloud of Table Mountain: One day, a pirate named Van Hanks met a demon near Table Mountain, and they talked to each other while smoking a pipe near a saddle-shaped rock. On that day, the demon in a good mood revealed to the pirates that there was only a warm cave for the demon who made atonement on the mountain. The pirate who was ready to turn over a new leaf had a brainwave and offered to have a smoking competition with the devil. Whoever wins belongs to a warm place. Their competition has continued to this day, so the mountains are always covered with dark clouds. Why are there no clouds in winter? That's because the devil and pirates are old now. They stopped the game in the cold and humid winter.
From 1929, a cableway with a length of 1220 meters was officially put into use, and people can take the cable car to the top of Table Mountain. 1997 10, the ropeway resumed and opened to tourists again. The new round cable car can provide passengers with a 360-degree view, and each car can take 65 people. The round-trip fare of this cable car is 55 rand (rand is the monetary unit of South Africa). Zulu, a cultural village in Zulu, South Africa, is the most populous of the nine black ethnic groups in South Africa. Most Zulu people are concentrated in KwaZulu-natal province in eastern South Africa. Zulu Zulu means heaven, so Zulu people also call themselves China people. They enjoy a certain degree of autonomy and have their own way of life.
Most Zulu people don't talk about wealth by the size of their houses, but by the size of their families and the number of livestock. Zulu people are convinced that everything in the world happens through the soul transmission of ancestors, so outsiders can't enter the ancestral temple without permission. Zulu people in rural areas are mainly farmers. They love their livestock and grow corn as their staple food. Cattle are the most precious livestock, which can not only be used as a dowry, but also help the owner to plow the fields and supply milk and beef as a token for calculating wealth. In addition, ancestor worship is also essential. The leadership of the Lu clan is inherited by the paternal line, that is, the eldest of the father's eldest sons was elected as the toast.
This custom and polygamy continue to this day, but marriage within the same family is taboo. No matter how many generations apart, members of the same family will always be brothers and sisters. Although some Zulu people in South Africa have been urbanized with the tide, most Zulu people are still indigenous, and they still inherit the traditional customs that existed before the white people landed. For example, some Zulu men still practice polygamy, and they can marry many wives as long as there are enough cows as dowry to meet their father-in-law's requirements. Wearing leopard skin is the symbol of Zulu Chief. Traditionally, leopards hunted by any ethnic group are regarded as the property of chiefs.
Zulu women use their clothes to show their race, wealth and marital status. Zu girls wear colored beads naked, and married women wear tops. Fighting dance is the most famous dance of Zulu nationality, which consists of various movements symbolizing fighting. They showed their courage and fighting spirit with flexible jumping, stabbing and dodging actions. Zu fighters are considered to be the bravest and most aggressive people in South Africa.
If you want to know more about South African culture, Zulu Cultural Village can definitely satisfy you. Zulu warriors are brave, brave and strong. In the cultural village, you can get a glimpse of Zulu people's life and environment, visit special traditional tribal hives, enjoy traditional Zulu dance performances, spread strength and beauty with drums, and an orthodox Zulu feast is waiting for you to have a big meal.
The lion garden and the king of beasts have a close contact! In the lion park, you can not only enjoy the natural ecology of lions, but also enjoy the heroic posture of lions walking in groups on the grass, and you can also enjoy the rare experience of hugging a cub and taking photos with it. The cub lying in her arms is lovely, just like a kitten. African lions are the biggest cats. Usually, lions rest almost all day and only go out to look for prey at night. Hunting is mainly carried out by the lioness in a cooperative way. Lions are in estrus every three months for about four to eight days, and the gestation period is 102 to 1 13 days. Each cub has two or four cubs.
It takes six to nine days for newborn babies to open their eyes, and one and a half to two years to be independent. During this period, the cubs are very fragile, and they are the targets of other carnivores, which makes the infant mortality rate as high as 80%, so the male and female of African lions are very different in appearance. The lion's body is more majestic than the tiger's, with a big head and a wide face. From head to neck, it has a fluffy mane that extends to the chest and forelimbs, and the roar is loud and rhythmic. Lions are small and hairless. The adult male lion is about 3.0-3.3 meters long, weighs 260 kilograms, and has a shoulder height of1.1.15 meters. The female is a little smaller. Lions live in the wild and inhabit the open grassland or the edge of sparse forest.
Lions don't need rich water environment like tigers, nor do they haunt the jungle like tigers. Lions can't climb trees and can't swim. Lions like to live in groups, and often several females and cubs form a small group. Usually sleep in the bushes during the day and go out for activities in the morning. The sexual maturity of African lions is 3-4 years old, the estrous cycle of lioness is about 2 1-23 days, and the duration of estrus is 4-8 days.
In nature reserves, African lions are in estrus all year round, but it is most obvious in early spring and early autumn. If the males and females are not separated, they can mate continuously, even reaching 7- 10 times per hour. This is not good for the health of the male lion and the female lion. They should be controlled to mate in cages twice a day in the morning and evening, and then they should be separated. Take a yacht to Seal Island in Hout Bay, Cape of Good Hope Peninsula, and watch the lively and funny seals and huge African penguins near Simon Town. They are not only wild, but also show their ecology of foraging, foraging and reproduction without reservation. Very cute. No ice. Spring is also a good season for whale watching in South Africa.
The spectacular water column of the southern right whale along the Banjiao Reef is very lively. Enjoy a Cape lobster dinner from the Atlantic Ocean as lunch at the seaside restaurant, which will allow you to enjoy the natural and exquisite blue coast of Cape Peninsula and enjoy delicious food. There are about 35 species of seals in the world. They are all cute, smart and interesting. Seals can hear more clearly underwater than on the water. They can tell the direction of sound sharply. When diving, they will close their ears and nostrils to temporarily stop breathing, even if they sleep in the water. Little seals surface every 15 minutes, and big seals breathe every 30 minutes. Female seals get pregnant for the first time when they are about four years old, and male seals don't start estrus until they are eight to twelve years old.
The mating period is 165438+ 10 and February every year. During mating, male seals are too busy sowing to eat, so they can only live on stored oil. It takes about one year from conception to delivery, usually one child. When the baby seal is one and a half months old, it can swim in the water. When he is seven months old, he can stay alone in the sea for two or three days, or he can. Seals eat fish, squid and crustaceans, and usually hunt on water. They rarely dive more than 36 meters, and their swimming speed can reach 38 kilometers per hour. The life span of seals is about 20 years old. Male seals can weigh up to 350 kilograms and are about two and a half meters long, while female seals rarely exceed one meter seven and weigh only 1 13 kilograms.
According to 1985, there are nearly 10000 seals on Keke Island, most of which are males, but this island is not an ideal breeding ground. Because of the sharp rocks on the island, young seals are easy to be injured or killed, and the skinning period is 1 to March. So the island is crowded with seals at this time, and no one wants to eat in the water while peeling.
Konstanza Wine Farm talked about the world-famous South African wines, thanks to the Netherlands, France and Britain. 1652 After the Dutch landed in Cape Town, under the influence of French religious persecution, 220 Huguenots who arrived in Cape, South Africa to escape persecution in Nantes came here and were occupied by the British and became British colonies.
The pioneering work of the ancestors of the Netherlands, France and Britain has created the special national cultural flavor of today's wine country. The Cape region is located at the top of Africa and belongs to a typical Mediterranean climate. It is rainy in winter and dry in summer. Grape planting experts believe that the grapes of world-class wines should grow at about 34 degrees north latitude, and the Cape region of South Africa is just in this position, and it is close to the equator with high light intensity. In summer, the longest sunshine time in Cape area is 14 hours per day. At that time, the British took a fancy to this land of geomantic omen, which was suitable for growing high-quality wine grapes. At the same time, the British also introduced European winemaking technology to Africa. Since then, grapes have been planted in the Cape of Good Hope.
1659 February, after the first batch of grapes were squeezed into juice, Cape became a paradise for wine production. South Africa is currently one of the six famous grape producing areas in the world, and its wine production accounts for 3% of the world's total output. Its main wine producing area is located in Cape Province. The land and climate in Cape area are very suitable for growing wine grapes. This is a world-famous wine producing kingdom, with vineyards all over Shan Ye, with magnificent momentum and pleasant scenery. Every citizen here is proud of the delicious wine produced locally. When you arrive in Cape Town, don't forget to visit the wine country. The two most famous wine towns are Stellenbosch and Parr, which are about two hours' drive from downtown Cape Town.
Along the way, you can enjoy the endless wine garden, take a break and taste the fragrant wine on the farm. The most famous wine tasting place is a farm not far from Table Mountain, GrootConstantia Constanza Farm, which is the most luxurious among many houses in Cape Holland in this area. This used to be the home of Governor Steyr, the founder of Cape Grape Planting. This is a memorial hall describing the early social and cultural life of Cape. There is the oldest brewing center in South Africa, and the wine museum built in 1685. This is an ancient building in Dutch style, with white and pink walls and elegant mirror roof. The museum displays furniture, glassware and ceramics from the17th century. There is a big wine cellar in its basement, which is filled with many huge round wooden barrels with a capacity of 10 thousand liters and 5 thousand liters. There are fermented grapes in the barrel, and many small tubes are inserted in the barrel to control the temperature, because the sweetness of wine will increase or decrease with the temperature.
This is labeled as sweet and semi-sweet. The grapes here should be squeezed first, and the red wine doesn't need to be peeled. You can use the skin to deepen the color of the wine. After four days, the skin was filtered off and the original juice was put into the jar for fermentation. About a month later, it was moved into an oak barrel and then put into a wine cellar. It takes at least one and a half years to bottle and sell. The older the red wine, the more fragrant it is. Making wine is easier. Peel the grapes, juice them, ferment them in wine vats, move them into clean vats one month later, and bottle them for sale two months later. Kestenbers National Botanical Garden South Africa is one of the six flower kingdoms in the world, and there are 10% flowering plants in South Africa. There are more than 2 1000 kinds of flowers and plants in South Africa.
Kestenbers National Botanical Garden is located on the east slope of Table Mountain, covering an area of 560 hectares. There are about 10000 species of plants in the park, accounting for 40% of the national plants, of which 2600 species are endemic to the Cape Peninsula and bloom all year round. They are beautiful, especially in spring, and you can see endless wonders covered with flowers. Cape Town has a Mediterranean climate, which is humid in winter and dry in summer, so most of the plants growing here are rainy in winter, including heather and trees, azaleas, grasses and agastaches.
Originally, fewer plants were planted in summer, but since the 1930s, a reservoir was built on the hillside of Table Mountain, which solved the problem of summer drought, such as royal flowers, mountain roses, red orchids, begonia flowers, daisies and so on. Can bloom in time, beautiful. Because the flower season is obvious, the landscape and colors in the botanical garden have their own characteristics with the four seasons of spring, summer, autumn and winter, and there is no repetition. The origin of botanical gardens can be traced back to the seventeenth century. At that time, VanRiebeeck, the leader of Dutch immigrants, led all the people in this area to reclaim wasteland and cut down a large number of primitive trees. Seeing the rapid deterioration of the natural landscape, he set up a reservation on the east slope of Table Mountain and prohibited logging.
Now there is a RiebeecksHedge in the botanical garden, which is probably the site of that year. This protected area continued to be deliberately taken care of by later reclamation workers, and its scale gradually took shape. Until 1895, Cecily. Rhodes, then governor of Cape Province, bought this place for 9,000 pounds and began to plan it into a national park in a planned way. He not only planted a lot of flowers and plants, but also paved a walkway inside, which gradually formed what he is today. Cecily. Rhodes died in 1902. In his will, he explicitly donated the botanical garden to the country, becoming the first botanical garden in South Africa to be opened to the public.