Chapter 560: The End Is in Sight
After crossing the Sabi River, travel another 800 kilometres through southern Zimbabwe and into Botswana, where you will arrive at Gaborone, the capital of Botswana. Pen ~ fun ~ pavilion www.biquge.info
However, the Grandmaster and Fang Zhengying did not dare to stop in Gaborone, the capital of Botswana.
If there is any capital in the world that is the most dangerous, it is undoubtedly Johannesburg, the capital of South Africa, 200 kilometers southeast of Gaborone.
But when it comes to which capital is the most deadly, Gaborone is definitely on the list.
It's a nice city, but there's one disease that makes people smell sick, and that's AIDS.
Yes, the country with the highest proportion of people living with AIDS in the world is Botswana. In this poor country in southern Africa, about one-fifth of the population is infected with this horrific and incurable disease. Gaborone, the capital of Botswana, is known as the "AIDS Capital".
Such a city, if it weren't for the rush, the Grandmaster wouldn't have come here.
In fact, not only Botswana, but also the whole of Africa is an AIDS-ridden region, and Mozambique, where the Grandmaster has just come out, is also an AIDS-ridden country, with 1.8 million people infected with AIDS in the whole of Mozambique, nearly one-tenth of the total population of the entire country.
And South Africa, which the Grandmaster is about to pass through, is even more terrifying.
South Africa has a total population of about 55 million, but the number of people infected with AIDS is as high as nearly 6 million, accounting for almost 13% of the country's total population, and South Africa is also the country with the largest number of people infected with AIDS in the world.
If it weren't for the rally, the Grandmaster would not have wanted to come to Southern Africa. But even when he came here, the Grandmaster chose the least populated route.
After arriving at Gaborone, the Grandmaster did not stop, even though it was already dark, but the Grandmaster continued to drive forward.
By this point, less than two thousand kilometers from Cape Town, the Grandmaster decided to drive all the way to the edge of the Kalahadi Desert tonight to rest.
After driving about 600 kilometers, at about twelve o'clock in the evening, we finally arrived at Abington, a city on the edge of the Kalahadi Desert.
Appleington is an important city in the north of South Africa, home to the world's second largest dried fruit company, and is the center of agriculture, animal husbandry, dried fruit and winemaking in the north of South Africa.
However, out of fear of AIDS, the Grandmaster did not enter the city, but set up camp on the Gobi Desert on the edge of the city.
It is said that it is a continuous rotation, but it does not mean that there is really no rest at all. It's impossible to go without a break, and even if two professional drivers take turns driving the car, they have to rest for at least five hours each night.
With such a long schedule and no rest in between, people are absolutely unbearable.
It took the Grandmaster a day and half a night to drive out 2,300 kilometers, which was already very fast. There are still more than 1,000 kilometers to go tomorrow, and even the two defending champions of the Real Madrid team behind them will not be able to catch up with the grandmaster tomorrow if they do not rest tonight.
To the north of Appleington is the Kalahadi Desert, where the famous Orange River runs through the middle of the city. One of the reasons why we set up camp here is to refuel tomorrow in Lapington, and the more important reason is to cross the Orange River in Lapington with the help of a road bridge.
After sleeping for about five hours, the Grandmaster became energetic. After throwing away the useless oil drum, Grandmaster and Fang Zhengying drove along Route 10 to Appleington, filled up the tank at a gas station in Appleington, crossed the Orange River from the Highway 10 bridge in the center of the city, and headed southwest along Route 27.
Appleington is located in the Kalahadi Basin, and to reach Cape Town in the southwest, you have to cross the Great Karoo Plateau in the southern part of the Kara Basin, so although you can drive from the Gobi before reaching the Great Karoo Plateau, you need to follow the road after reaching the Great Karoo Plateau.
Follow Route 27 through Brand Frye, then Calvinia, then turn onto Route 7 from Kranwilliam at the northern end of the Cape Mountains, then past Sitlesdal, and finally to the coastal plain where Cape Town is located.
In fact, when you climb over the Cape Mountains, you can see Cape Town a hundred kilometres away, and Mount Tebul to the west of Cape Town.
When he arrived here, the Grandmaster was very excited, and Fang Zhengying beside him was even more excited.
From February 25, 30 days ago, to March 27 today, it is a full 31 days and a month.
Starting from the icy land of Vladivostok, it crossed the entire Asian continent and the African continent twice in a row, and finally arrived at the destination city in front of us, with a total distance of more than 35,000 kilometers.
On the way, I have encountered snowstorms, encountered heavy rainstorms, encountered sandstorms, walked through the great desert, crossed the roof of the world, and galloped across the prairie.
Along the way, I have experienced the hardships.
Nonsense, of course, it's hard, but when you see that the destination city is not far away a hundred kilometers, all of a sudden it seems as if all of a sudden, all of a sudden, it seems to be blown away by the fierce mountain wind.
Grandmaster and Fang Zhengying almost unanimously dropped the car window, and the mountain breeze with a slight smell of sea outside the window suddenly blew in.
Cape Town is located at around 34 degrees south latitude, and it's autumn in the Southern Hemisphere, so it's the lukewarm time to blow in and the wind blows in through the window.
The grandmaster pointed to the faint city in the south, smiled and said to Zhengying: "Daughter-in-law, don't you rest assured now? Vladivostok-Cape Town Car Rally is the end there, and we are already ten out of ten winners of this rally!"
Fang Zhengying looked at the grandmaster who was driving affectionately and said, "Husband, thank you for accompanying me to fulfill the biggest wish of my life. ”
The grandmaster smiled and waved his hand and said, "Daughter-in-law, you don't need to say such kind words. Actually, I'd love to experience the whole process of a rally, but if I hadn't, I'd have had to wait at least a decade before I decided to participate in the rally. Because of you, I was able to participate in the rally so quickly, so I want to thank you too. ”
"It's sour, neither of us can thank anyone, hurry up, I can't wait to go to the foot of Mount Tebul to lift the championship trophy." ”
The Grandmaster smiled and nodded, and as soon as he stepped on the accelerator, the modified tough guy immediately let out a roar and rushed down the wide road down the mountain.
And just as the tough guy rushed to the plain, there was a loud engine roar in the sky, and the two looked up at the sky, only to find that two helicopters were hovering above the tough guy.
Needless to say, this must have been arranged by the organizing committee. Every year, the first car to arrive on Cape Town's coastal plain is treated to the helicopter until the finish.
As early as when the Grandmaster signed in Angochet, the Cape Town side was already ready. Several intersections into the coastal plain of Cape Town are manned, and once a car is spotted, the organizing committee at the finish line will immediately send two helicopters to escort you all the way to the actual finish line.