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South Africa's tourist resources are very well done, and if you type the name of any town on Google, you will find the town's official website with detailed tourist information, and tourist attractions like Table Mountain also have their own official websites that clearly indicate the opening hours of the cable car at different times (weather permitting). Pen | fun | pavilion www. ｂｉｑｕｇｅ。 ｉｎｆｏ

Sunset times every day, special events at different seasons, and more. Now going up the mountain after 18 o'clock, there is a cable car fee for 1 person for 2 people, and if you want to climb up on your own, you can do it at any time, and there is no entrance fee. The sunset time in this season is around 19:40, so go up the mountain around 18:00.

Not only can you avoid the crowded queue during the day, but you can also enjoy the sunset view, and the price is also discounted (the original price for adults is R205/person).

Located west of Cape Town, the AIN (Table Mountain, the "C" in the road map) was founded by the Portuguese navigator Iodasaldanha (Antonio. Reach. Shadana), meaning taboadacaba ("table of the cape"). Prior to this, the original name of the mountain was given by the local Kokhoi people (Yi ethnic group).

Rikwaggo (Ain Seamount). The mountain is 1,082 meters above sea level, and is named after the fact that the top of the mountain is flat like a table, and the peaks stretch out horizontally, and the weather is majestic. The entire top of Table Mountain is more than 40 square kilometers. When visibility is good, stand on the top of the hill to see the Cape Town coast, the city and Robben Island, where Mandela was imprisoned for nearly 30 years.

The rest of the veins have Lion Rock. Signal Mountain, Devil's Peak Peaks; Here you can see that the earth is round, because the ground level is an endless coastline. Table Mountain is not tall though.

But it is affected by the warm and humid air currents over the Atlantic Ocean. The summit is often covered by fog and is called a "tablecloth", and the cable car is closed when there are clouds or strong winds, but if you can climb to the top at this time, the view is just as shocking.

One of Table Mountain was built in 1929. 1,220 meters of ropeway and more than 350 hiking trails to the summit, October 1997. The ropeway has been refurbished and reopened to visitors. Two new circular gondolas provide passengers with a 360° full open view, each with a capacity of 65 people. The course of the ascent in the cable car.

I was shocked by the scenery in front of me, and the Indian tour group behind me kept screaming, and there are really many similarities between the world's most populous country. Because it is a 360° rotation ascent. So you can clearly see the surrounding scenery, and occasionally glance at it, and really see a foreigner climbing up alone, with a vigorous pace.

It should be an experienced person, but it is not long before the sun sets, so you must reach the top of the mountain before dark and catch the last cable car to descend the mountain, otherwise it will be extremely troublesome to have experience and physical strength. Go for it!

Walking out of the cable car station, I was stumbled by the oncoming wind. I knew that it was windy on Table Mountain, but I didn't expect it to be so strong, and the SLR on my chest was blown straight by the wind. It's no wonder that souvenir shops sell fleece. Despite wearing a scarf around his neck and a windproof jacket, he was blown and shivered; Sunglasses are a must.

Not for shade, but for the wind; Standing on the edge of the cliff to take pictures, Yunluo was really worried that he would be blown down, so he immediately retracted as soon as he took a picture; Although there is no slope at the top of the mountain.

But there are still quite a few stone steps. I really regret that I changed my slippers in the hotel and went out, and I walked that way step by step. No matter where you stand to take pictures, you can't hold the camera steadily; And the SLR accidentally kissed the ground when he got out of the car just now, breaking the photoreceptor.

Although surrounded by such and such troubles, when Yunluo stood on the edge of the cliff and watched the sunset over the Atlantic, all problems were diluted, watching the sun sprinkle a golden light on the sea level, and then slowly disappear below the horizon, and the many troubles and unpleasantness that bound Yunluo seemed to be blown into the Atlantic Ocean by the wind, and slowly sank with that golden light.

"Come on!" As the sky grew darker and the temperature on the mountain was lowering, he immediately hid in a souvenir shop to keep warm, and when he saw a postcard seller, he suddenly wanted to send it to himself, celebrating that on the first day of arriving in Cape Town, he could board the magical attraction that would be closed for 1/2 of the year.

Postcards are sold in the shop, but the stamps can be sent by you at another shop where the cable car exits. Because I was going to send postcards to my friends in the boot mailbox, I bought a few more stamps, which was a very wise practice, as postcards were sold everywhere, but stamps were not so easy to buy.

When the cable car came down, it was already the brilliant lights of thousands of homes, I really didn't expect the night scene of Cape Town to be so beautiful, but unfortunately the SLR was broken and could not shoot the night scene, and I took several photos with the card machine and mobile phone without success, so I could only record this intoxicating scene with my eyes.

It was past 20:30 when I returned to the hotel, because there was a large bottle of yogurt at the bottom in the afternoon, and Yunluo was not hungry, but Nalan Shiqi was already hungry, so she immediately cooked, washed vegetables, stir-fried, and waited for Yunluo to take a good bath.

4 dishes and 1 soup with rice are already hot in front of you. I especially like pork and corn soup, pork is very fragrant, it is really the taste of a long, long time ago, corn is recommended by Xiao Zhou, although it is not very glutinous, but it is very sweet and refreshing.

It's a good thing for someone to cook rice, but good rice is not so delicious, after eating, I washed 3 pots, 10 plates, 4 bowls, 2 spoons, and 2 pairs of chopsticks brought by Yunluo.

The foreigner's pots and pans are also very large and heavy. After labor, Yunluo didn't even have the strength to eat fruit, and went straight to bed, as if he hadn't slept normally for a long, long time.

I was finally able to lie on the bed and get a good night's sleep, but when I woke up, I found that it was raining outside the window, which was very big, but it was not a shower, which was the most troublesome. Cape Town receives the least amount of precipitation in the summer, but the clouds fall into a heavy rain.

I was originally scheduled to go skydiving this morning, but because the people in my companion have changed, the time to arrive in Cape Town has changed, and now even the weather has changed, so I have to give up completely and start a regular day trip. On the way to "Seal Island", I hurriedly took a photo near the "Twelve Apostles", the weather was not good, and the scenery was naturally not good.

Known as phaluspusillus, the seal is a species native to southern Africa that breeds off the coastline of South Africa and Namibia, with a lifespan of about 20-40 years, a gestation period of about 8-12 months, and usually only one litter. Females rarely grow longer than 1.7 meters.

Weighing 113 kilograms, the male seal is about 2.5 meters long and weighs up to 350 kilograms. They feed on fish, are agile in the water, swim extremely fast, can reach more than 17 kilometers per hour, usually hunt on the surface, rarely dive deeper than 36 meters, and dive with their ears and nose closed.

Hold your breath as if you were sleeping in the water, with baby seals coming to the surface to breathe every 15 minutes, and seals showing their heads only every 30 minutes. At the dock where you can take the boat, you can see the occasional probe peeking out of the water.

In 1607, the ships of the English came here for the first time, and the first mate (John Brown) Chapman) named a bay in the middle of the Cape Peninsula "", and in 1652 k (Zan. Van Ribek landed on the Cape Peninsula and named it Houtbay ('A' in the road map).

In Dutch, "hout" means: wood. Seal Island is located on Dirk Island on Hout Bay, surrounded by water depths of about 4-7 meters and water temperatures of about 10-15 degrees Celsius, famous for the large number of seals and seagulls on the island. In order to protect the habitat of the seals, tourists are prohibited from visiting the island.

Boats can only be parked near a long reef complex about the size of three football fields. Depending on the season, as few as 1,000 or as many as 5,000 seals come to the reef in groups, and local fishermen also take the initiative to protect these animals, creating unique conditions for their breeding.

This makes the island an excellent place for seals to breed and roost, and also makes it a great place to visit South Africa. But in l985 it was reported that the island was not an ideal breeding ground because of the sharp rocks on the island, small seals were prone to injury or death, and the shedding period was between January and March.

At this time, the island is crowded with seals, and no one wants to go into the water to eat during the shedding period, and at the same time, because the fur of baby seals is extremely valuable and easy to be hunted, it is still a difficult task to protect seal breeding.

There are relatively few people on the boat at noon, about 20 minutes from the pier to Seal Island, the wind and waves are relatively small in summer, and I don't feel dizzy when standing in the corridor outside, but because of the rain, it is a little cold.

It's rare to have a rain in South Africa in summer, even if it's showers, it's not so a whole day, cough, don't you know if the clouds fall, even Xiao Zhou said, Cape Town hasn't rained so much in almost 2 months! I hung up the phone and went headlong into a supermarket that sold seafood, although the seafood inside was processed and frozen.

But there is no fishy smell, it is very fresh, and the price is much more economical than that of the Chinese market.

Lunch is at the nearby fast food restaurant, fried shrimp or squid, plus fries, you can also order a burger, the food is in a cardboard box, it tastes good, after all, the ingredients are fresh, but there are no vegetables. Although there are waiters, most of the foreigners clean up by themselves after eating, and the trash cans are made into beer barrels, not to mention that I really don't know. (To be continued)

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