Chapter 326: There are also penguins in Africa

Interestingly, when I sat down to try the first bottle of wine, the winemaker told SC Johnson in Chinese to toast, only to learn that he had been to China several times and said that eating there required a constant toast.

Later, when he tried the wine, he would always say one more thing to let him drink slowly, saying that what Tianjie Manor conveyed was the concept of healthy, organic and slow life, and that he should live slowly and drink slowly.

Rest for two days at SC Johnson to kick off your trip to Cape Town. Because South Africa is located at the southernmost tip of the African continent, surrounded by the Indian Ocean and the Atlantic Ocean, it is a maritime transportation fortress, and rich in gold and diamonds.

Strictly speaking, South Africa should be a moderately developed country, and Cape Town is the place with the highest standard of living in the country, where there are white people who have settled here for generations, people from other African countries who have come with African dreams, and people from all over the world who come here to enjoy the sun and beaches.

Walking through the streets, this city is a very different city in Africa, the streets, the architecture, the people walking on the road, if this is a French or Italian city, SC Johnson has no doubts.

Truth Coffee Roasting, the only café in Africa to be listed in The World's Best Coffee Shop, has a very unassuming façade, and even the logo is painted on the window.

The design is steampunk-style, with industrial elements such as metal pipes, old rotary ovens, and even the coffee itself roasted in an antique cast-iron coffee roaster.

The quality of the coffee is also impeccable, and most of the five-star hotels in South Africa buy from here because of the hand-roasted beans of the highest quality, and the treasure of the town is butter coffee with butter.

In the early years of apartheid in South Africa, residential areas were divided according to people's skin color, like blacks had to live in black areas, while Malays were divided into variegated people and were only allowed to live in Malay areas, and except for Europeans and Caucasians, houses of other races were not allowed to have house numbers.

From a distance, the famous Table Mountain is flat like a table, hence the name Table Mountain, and sometimes when there are clouds, large clouds cover the Table Mountain, and the interesting South Africans call this scene a tablecloth.

Looking at the poster of the scenic spot to introduce this kind of thing, it was actually selected as one of the Seven Natural Wonders of the New World in 2012?

I can't help but wonder if I google it, what are the remaining six?

The Amazon rainforest is counted as one, outside the Iguazu Falls in Argentina, and then look down and see Jeju Island in the list?

After checking it out, it turned out that this list was initiated by a Swiss organization on the Internet and voted for by everyone. After checking again, I found that there was more than this list, and even CNN also got involved and made a list by itself.

The Cape of Good Hope is certainly present in all the world's national history and geography textbooks and is a milestone in the course of world history. Before the opening of the Suez Canal in Egypt, it was the place through which Europe's sea route to the East passed. So far, mega tankers still have to go around the Cape of Good Hope if they can't enter the Suez Canal.

Take the cable car to the top of the mountain, where there is a derelict lighthouse that overlooks both the Atlantic Ocean and the Indian Ocean, which are the boundary between the two oceans.

The most amazing thing is that you can actually see penguins in Africa!

In 1984, the first pair of penguins came to Simon's town by the sea, and the local residents took great care of the penguins and set up this beach as a penguin sanctuary, and after more than 20 years of breeding, the number of penguins here has exceeded several thousand.

In the eighties and nineties, the penguins gathered here were too casual, often swaggering into the house, urinating on the carpets of residents' homes, or running out onto the road to play games with passing cars, and their calls were particularly amazing, and they were called donkey penguins.

In order to restore the lives of the residents, the government designated this beach as a penguin home, and closed it with wooden railings around it. And tourists who want to see penguins have to walk along this only wooden boardwalk to the beach.

Stepping on the plank road, it is basically built in the direction of the seaside, and there are many bushes on both sides. Because it was heading towards the Indian Ocean, it was really a sea breeze. Even though the sun was still shining in the sky, the sea breeze did not slow down at all, and the further you went inside, the stronger the wind became.

The plank road is actually not too long, probably because the wind is too strong, and it is a little difficult to walk. Before I reached a bend at the end, I saw a domestic tour group, and the aunts were holding silk scarves in a concave shape there. In the endless blue, the silk scarf is indeed particularly eye-catching, I don't know if the aunt's hand is slippery or the wind is too strong, the silk scarf will go with the wind.

When I saw the first moment, I was really shocked. I saw that the beach was full of cute little penguins, almost all over the place. Groups are on the beach, basking in the sun, doing group games, and surfing and playing in the water, and when they are hungry, they swim into the sea to have a full meal, which is enviable.

The penguins here are very distinctive, smaller than the ones I've seen before, and they look very funny, and even the rocks on the beach are brought to life by the penguins' funny walks and performances.

Standing behind the wooden fence and watching the elves on the beach, it is as if they have returned to their childhood, and their honest expressions are revealed. Walking on the boardwalk, you can clearly see that there are many rocks of uneven height and size between the beach and the sea, and the rocks and the beach and the small trees on the shore form the home of penguins.

I saw flocks of penguins foraging, surfing, playing and resting here, and if you were lucky, you could see them mating and hatching with your own eyes. Although penguins are afraid of people, they still have white bellies, and their two vestigial wings swing around like small hands, swaying and cute.

If you hadn't heard the calls of these penguins with your own ears, you would never have imagined that the little one would cry like a donkey, and really scare Johnson.

There is a Chinese restaurant nearby, abalone is abundant in South Africa, but the locals don't eat abalone, so there are a lot of wild abalones here. The large abalone weighing 3 catties cultivated in glass tanks is really bigger than the face.

Such a big abalone is worth 600 yuan?

Back at the hotel, soak comfortably in the bath, the seven continents of the world, have run six. In fact, Europe should come to Africa directly after reading it, from white to black, from delicate to bold, from rich to poor.

This visual impact is enough.

North America looks big, but in fact, it is the United States and Canada. Needless to say, the United States is the most developed country after all. Not so much in Canada, it's not as interesting as Australia and New Zealand.

Queenstown, in particular, is an impressive, good-looking, fun, and delicious paradise, and you have to go to the waves for half a month every year.

Africa comes to see the end of the matter, except for wild animals, the rest are very rubbish, after all, poverty is the original sin, no wonder some people say: Asian tyrants like Europe, European tyrants like African grasslands.

Seven plays all over six, leaving only the last one, Antarctica.