Chapter 938: New Routes
Being led like a dog in Cape Town for two days is not only a loss, but there is still some gain. During this tour, Hong Tao probably has a more comprehensive understanding of the city of Cape Town, which is difficult for ordinary tourists to achieve in a short period of time, after all, the filming project of the TV network has been strictly designed, not only to have beautiful scenery, but also to have local cultural connotations and characteristics.
Don't be fooled if someone asks you where is the capital of South Africa, it's neither Cape Town nor Johannesburg, where the international airport is located, it's just the most economically developed city in South Africa. South Africa has three capitals at the same time, Cape Town is the legislative capital, Pretoria is the administrative capital, and there is a judicial capital called Bloemfontein.
In South Africa, 75% of the main ethnic groups are the Xhosa, Zulu, Sotho and Tswana people, all of whom are the indigenous people of South Africa. In addition to this, there are about 14 percent whites and about 10 percent mixed-race people. The 14 percent or so of whites have had the greatest impact on South Africa. And the white people are divided into two major groups, the Afrigians and the British whites, and this Afrikaners are the Afrikaners.
Speaking of the Dutch, Hong Tao thinks they are the most liberal and equal people in the world, and they are very business-oriented. At that time, the multinational companies and stocks were all made by these sea coachmen, and South Africa and the United States also had their strong pen and ink in the founding history, and many business rules were also their originality to this day. And then they came up with a whole bunch of things like the legalization of Western drugs, the legalization of homosexuality, for better or worse, as long as there is a similar change in the world. You can find the shadow of the Dutch. They are a group of people who like to innovate, like to disrupt the old order, and like to weaken the government, and Hong Tao agrees with many of their views.
was tossed by the TV station and the director for 2 days. Hong Tao can't rest yet, and the Table Mountain Hotel is also connected to Cape Town's largest shopping mall. Victoria and Alfrey Mall. With an area of 40,000 square meters and more than 200 shops that are open all year round, it is enough to attract female crew members who have not seen any commissary for more than a month, and it is also enough to exhaust Hong Tao's escort. They swept the Victoria and Alfrey Mall from start to finish at the pace of 50 stores a day, making sure that nothing was missed, and then they reluctantly began packing boxes and preparing to board the ship and set off.
When they disembarked, each person had a bag, a suitcase, and three jeeps were loaded. When they boarded the ship a week later, they had filled three jeeps with their luggage alone. After hearing that they were leaving, the chubby female manager of the mall deliberately ran to the hotel lobby next door early in the morning to wait, holding the five female crew members and crying. I have to cry, I am afraid that Hong Tao will cry more sadly than her, it is estimated that this shopping mall has not encountered tourists with such strong purchasing power for several years. From clothes to shoes and hats, from gold jewelry to diamonds, from black wood sculptures to hand-weaving, they buy everything, which one is more expensive and which one is expensive, and there is a pair that never buys a single one. In order to better serve them, the store also has a translator and two porters. Every morning at 9 o'clock in the morning, I am waiting for the arrival of the loser girl in the lobby.
It's a very uncomfortable feeling to just watch others spend their own money and not be able to stop it, so Hong Tao is not idle. Aren't you trying to help me lose? Look at which of us loses quickly! You buy clothes, jewelry, and tourist souvenirs, right? That's only a few dollars! Look at me, I'll buy a big house directly! Where the house is expensive, I will buy it! So Hong Tao has two more properties in his name, oh. No, it's two more properties in the name of the Crystal Fund.
One is located on the mountainside of Signal Mountain. It's an old base for the rich white, just like Hong Kong's mid-levels. It's all mansions, and the other is on Cape, a newly wealthy neighborhood that has only sprung up in recent years, surrounded by golf courses, racecourses and tennis courts, where more of the young and wealthy live. Hong Tao can't see which of the two regions has more development prospects, so he simply, buy one on the one hand, and then let the foundation hire a local single mother as a maid to look at the house, hey, kill two birds with one stone! Buy real estate to make money, arrange for a lover's mother and son to live by the way, and do good deeds, Hong Tao simply admires himself.
After a week's break in Cape Town, on 10 December, the Mad Mouse set sail again. After leaving the pier at Fars Bay, the sailboat did not sail out to sea, but walked east along the coastline for half a day, and finally came to a headland.
"Well, it should be here, come on, come on, let's go to the bow together. Nicole, adjust your camera, it's memorable. See that lighthouse on the headland? That's the Agulas Lighthouse, the southernmost point of the African continent. With this lighthouse as the boundary, the Atlantic Ocean to the west, the Indian Ocean to the east, and we have entered the Indian Ocean!" After checking the GPS coordinates again, Hong Tao blasted everyone onto the deck, and then began his speech, and had to ask Nicole to record it for him, which was a bit of Columbus guidance.
In fact, this lighthouse Hong Tao didn't know two days ago, it was the good navigator Lada who discovered the coordinates of the Cape of Good Hope on the nautical chart, and it was not the southernmost point of the African continent. After suing Sรน Hongtao, he inquired, and sure enough, the real southernmost point is this Cape Agulas, but it is not as famous as the Cape of Good Hope, so everyone said that the southernmost point of the African continent was replaced by the Cape of Good Hope.
Of course, Hong Tao can't make this mistake, and Rada's discovery that he shamelessly stole it for himself, didn't mention Rada, let alone that he only found these materials yesterday when he turned the book, and it was the knowledge in his head, and then he passed it on to the crew very generously. In a few years, his first children will be sensible, whether they remember themselves or not, and what they show them must be their own glorious side. Gotta show them what a great dad they have.
After completing the trip to the Cape of Good Hope, Hong Tao's revised voyage was left with three segments. The first leg is from Cape Town, bypassing the island of Madagascar, after a simple replenishment in Mauritius, directly longitudinally across the Indian Ocean, the destination is Mumbai, the seaport of western India; after a few days of rest in Mumbai, the Crazy Mouse turns southwest, passes through the port of Colombo in Sri Lanka, bypasses Sumatra and Java Island, and goes directly to the northern Australian port of Darwin, which is the second stage; the third section is time to return to China, from the port of Darwin all the way north, through the Banda Sea, The Maluku Islands, from the west side of the Philippines into the South China Sea, and further north, can reach Hong Kong.
The design of this route is somewhat unconventional, and most of the time it is not on a fixed international route, which adds some difficulties to the voyage, mainly to the Lada, and she has to check the charts little by little to make sure that there will be no reefs on the new route. Once the ship has an accident during the voyage, there is no port to dock for hundreds or even thousands of kilometers around, and it is also very troublesome to rescue. The most terrible thing is that if you don't take international routes, you will really be alone in the vast sea, there will be no passing ships around, and probably never!
But Hong Tao insisted on doing so, and he had to avoid two very dangerous seas, so he could not go north along the east coast of Africa. The first is the Gulf of Aden and the western Arabian Sea, and the second is the Strait of Malacca, including the waters near Vietnam. Why do you want to deliberately avoid these two seas, because of man-made disasters! Pirates! These two seas are two of the most famous areas in the world for frequent piracy, and they steal not only large cargo ships, but also fishing boats and yachts. Therefore, Hong Tao would rather challenge nature than increase the chance of encountering pirates.
If he had Xiao Wu and Kuroko on his ship, then he would have to choose to go to the Gulf of Aden, the Red Sea, the Strait of Malacca, and even the Persian Gulf. The three brothers each held a big sniper, and two machine guns were set up on the side of the boat on both sides, Sun Thief! Whoever you meet, you will burst into whoever you meet, and I won't be happy if you don't rob me! But now there are 5 women on the boat, including 3 eldest ladies, forget about this kind of stimulation, if you hurt anyone, it will be troublesome, and if you can't provoke it, let's hide.
"I want to go to Dubai to see, we can't make a slight turn! There are two of my classmates there, let them see me driving a galleon, I promise to die of envy!" Paris's life is always the most important thing to make others envious, and she will not hesitate to pay a price for this.
"I can't go, the pirates there specialize in robbing Caucasian women, and then sell them to brothels to pick up customers, at least 30 a day, and if you dare to resist, you will whip them!" Hong Tao will not take risks because of a little girl's obsession.
"Aren't you still protecting us...... You still have guns, I saw them all...... It's in the bedroom, it's a big one!" Paris confessed to another crime in order to fight Hong Tao for the opportunity to change the course.
"......" Hong Tao listened to Paris's words, and immediately turned his head to look at Rada and Lily, who were now the only ones on the boat who knew about the gun.
"It has nothing to do with Lada and Lily, we found it ourselves...... You're such a pervert, and you've taken a lot of that kind of video and photo...... "Paris is righteous and takes the blame on himself."
When he designed this ship, he deliberately asked the French designer to reserve a secret compartment under the large bed in his master bedroom, which led directly to the bottom of the hull on the left, and many things he thought he wanted to keep secret were hidden in the secret compartment, except for weapons and ammunition, which were videos and photos that were not suitable for children. (To be continued......)