After chatting, we arrived at the safari park, and there were several tour groups at the same time.

"Wait a minute, I've got to go and make up the ticket for you. Xiao Xiao said.

"I, uh, I forgot, I'm sorry for you. ”

"It's okay, there's a discount if I go, hee-hee. ”

After a while, Xiao Xiao returned to the car, and the car slowly drove into the gate of the zoo.

This safari park has a size of 500 square kilometers, is the fourth largest zoo in South Africa, the car has been driven in, but on the way is not allowed to get off the car, you can stop and see, relatively close to see rhinoceros, zebras, wildebeests, springboks, giraffes, baboons, etc., but did not see lions, elephants, jaguars, the whole car people are slightly regretful.

The animals are laid-back and show no signs of fear of people, and the harmony between animals and people can be felt throughout South Africa.

Zhang Feng, who has hunting experience, always feels weird, on the way back to visit the city of Pretoria for sightseeing, first go to the South African Diamond Center, since you have arrived in South Africa, whether you buy it or not, the diamond still has to go to see!

The place where diamonds are processed can be taken at will, and Zhang Feng met a bald master, who was very cooperative, and also posed.

In the subsequent exchange, Zhang Feng learned about the nearby diamond mine, the Kalinan Diamond Mine, and felt that the opportunity had come, but he had to get in and find someone to help, but he had no friends in South Africa, so he could only try his luck first.

"The next stop is the Apartheid Museum in South Africa, and I will give you a brief introduction......" Xiao Xiao introduced in the car.

Zhang Feng originally planned to get off here, but found that the museum was not very far away, so he postponed his trip.

The Apartheid Museum of South Africa, visitors begin to feel what apartheid is as soon as they enter the museum. Whites and non-whites enter the museum through two different entrances, and the first thing they see is a segregation-era ID card.

Whites' ID cards read "South African citizens," while other people of colour's ID cards read "Indigenous," "Malaysian," and "Chinese" on the apartheid museum...... The museum divides the history of South Africa into three sections: the period of the "Union of South Africa" from 1910 to 1948, the period of full apartheid from 1948 to 1994, and the period of New South Africa from 1994 to the present.

Zhang Feng is unimaginable, this kind of thing is really unimaginable, the racial system in China, only the Yuan Dynasty has been explicitly implemented, and the Qing Dynasty has almost that taste, but most of the time, it is ruled by the Han dynasty, relatively speaking, the racial history of China is still relatively peaceful.

Out of the museum, I found that the head of the entrance of the museum Man-de-la is three-dimensional, and he can only be seen clearly from a more positive angle, and the design creativity is very good!

Man de la Quote: For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in an ay that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

Freedom means not only being free from one's own shackles, but also living in a way that respects and increases the freedom of others.

"Xiao Xiao, thank you. ”

"It's a small thing, and you're paid well. ”

"Then I'm leaving. Zhang Feng said goodbye to everyone politely.

Xiao Xiao remembered and said, "We are scheduled to take a plane to Cape Town in the evening in three days, if you want to be together, WeChat half a day in advance!"

"Okay, thanks. ”

I took a taxi, but there was not enough time today, so Zhang Feng went to the nearest hotel to stay in the mine.

When he got up the next day, Zhang Feng, who was in an exceptionally quiet mood, turned on the computer and wrote an essay:

I can't remember how many times I woke up in a completely unfamiliar country, city, room. However, it seems that it has been a long time since I have slept so well. On the Nth night in South Africa, from 10 p.m. to 6 a.m., I had a long and wonderful childlike sleep for 8 hours, without waking up once and not dreaming a single dream. There seems to be some magic to this bed in the hotel.

I got up, washed, packed, and felt light. After that, I went downstairs to breakfast, and I could smell the aroma of toast before I even entered the restaurant. Breakfast was plentiful: bread, milk, coffee, eggs, sausages, fruits, everything you need.

I can't help but sigh that we live in an age of material abundance.

When I entered the restaurant, I suddenly felt like I was in a trance, as if I had entered an unreal world, because there was a large black face shaking in front of me. Even though I saw a lot of black people all day yesterday, they were walking in the streets, they were setting up stalls on the side of the road, they were talking to each other...... I watched them go about their daily lives through the glass window of the car, but I didn't feel it that strongly.

Maybe I subconsciously thought that black people wouldn't show up in a hotel and sit with us for a good breakfast.

Maybe I'm too used to the image of them crouching in a dirty neighborhood, destitute...... I am extremely ashamed of my feeling as if I was stuck in the era when slavery had not yet been abolished...... I wonder if there will come a day when prejudices, discrimination and inequality between different races will finally disappear.

……

I hope that one day I can travel enough places to completely change the preconceived things in my mind......

At 8 o'clock in the morning, Zhang Feng went to the Kalinan Diamond Mine, reporting a local one-day tour group, a group of six people, Zhang Feng is still trying to talk to the local guide about his own mine, but there is no progress for the time being.

This is destined to be another day of reflection on history.

The Kallinan diamond mine is located in a small town 50 km from Pretoria. I think of South Africa and the African continent full of glittering gold, diamonds, and precious ivory. They are incomparably beautiful, dazzling, but full of dangers, often bringing disaster and misfortune, because human greed and cruelty are unrecognizable to them.

Perhaps the Westerners originally came to this land only to open up new routes to the mysterious East, trading with the natives to supply supplies for the ocean voyages, with a little bit of dreamer purity.

However, once gold and diamonds were discovered on the continent, colonizers rushed to divide land, exploit minerals, build cities, wage wars, and all of them turned into naked plunder.

The ugliness of human nature cannot be concealed even by the brilliance of diamonds.

The Kalinan Diamond Mine is also quite famous. The Kalinan Diamond, the world's largest rough natural diamond to date, was mined here in 1905 and was discovered just 9 metres above the surface.

Later, the 3,106-carat rough stone was cut into nine large diamonds, named Cullinan I to IX, all of which belonged to the British royal family. The two largest, Carlinan I (also known as the Great African Star), adorned the British royal scepter, while Kalinan II (also known as the Little African Star) was inlaid in the Queen's crown.

The large and small "African stars" were held in the hands of the Queen of England and worn on her head, which is somewhat ironic to this day.

The Kallinan diamond mine is still in operation today and is currently mined to a depth of 700 metres and is said to be able to mine below 1,000 metres. When you visit the construction site, you have to wear a hard hat to prevent the diamond from accidentally hitting your head.

Zhang Feng and the others first watched the introduction video, then looked at the huge abandoned diamond pit from afar, and finally admired the replica of the Kalinan diamond in a showroom, but did not go down to the mine as expected.

The diamond mines, which claim to be the largest in the world, are particularly lonely and desolate, like a dry lake in the desert.

Even in the place of origin, the price of such a thing as a diamond is still very expensive, and it is not the person who risks drilling hundreds or even kilometers underground to find it and mine it in the end, and it is not the wife and daughter of the miner who end up wearing it on the neck and finger to possess it.

Zhang Feng still looked forward to going down and digging up a diamond, and then finally polishing it himself and wearing it on the finger of the person he loved.