South Africa's tourism resource information is very good. If you enter the name of any town on Google, you can almost find the town's official website, which has detailed tourism information. Tourist attractions like Table Mountain also have their own official website, clearly specifying the opening hours of cable cars for different time periods (when weather permits).

Every day, sunset times, special activities for different festivals, etc. Now, after 18 o'clock, two people charge a cable car fare for 1 person. If you want to climb up by yourself, you can do it at any time, and there is no ticket fee. The sunset time of this season is around 19:40, so go up the mountain around 18 o'clock.

Not only can it avoid the crowds of people during the day, but it can also enjoy the sunset scenery, and the cost is also discounted (original price of adults r205 per person).

The table untain (Table Mountain, "c" in the road map) located in the west of Cape Town was named by the Portuguese navigator Antoniosaldanha (Antonio da Shadana), meaning Tabo Acaba ("Cape Table"). Before that, the original name of the mountain was born by the local Kokhoi people (I people).

Hoe Rikkain Sea Mountain). The mountain is 1,082 meters above sea level, named after the flat top of the mountain. The peaks are stretched and flat, and the weather is majestic. The entire top of the table mountain is more than 40 square kilometers. When visibility is good, standing on the top of the mountain can enjoy the Cape Town coast, the city's overall appearance and Robin Island, which has been imprisoned by Mandela for nearly 30 years.

The remaining veins include Lion Mountain, Signal Mountain, and Devil Peak. Here you can see that the earth is round because the ground is an endless coastline. Although Table Mountain is not high.

However, affected by the warm and humid airflow on the Atlantic Ocean, the top of the mountain is often covered with fog and is called a "table cloth". When there are clouds or strong winds, the cable car in Table Mountain is closed, but at this time if you can climb to the top of the mountain, the scenery you see is the vast sea of ​​clouds that can also shock people.

There is a 1,220-meter cableway built in 1929 and more than 350 hiking trails leading to the top of the mountain. In October 1997, the cableway was renovated and opened to tourists again. Two new circular cableways can provide passengers with a full open view of 360°, and each car can take 65 people. During the ascending process of the cableway.

I was shocked by the scenery in front of me. The Indian tour group behind me kept screaming. There were many similarities between the most populous countries in the world. Because it was rotated and rose by 360°, you could clearly see the scenery around you. After a glance, you could really see a foreigner climbing up alone, with agile steps.

He should be an experienced person. But not long before the sun sets, he must reach the top of the mountain before dark and catch the last cable car down the mountain. Otherwise, it will be extremely troublesome to have experience and physical strength. Come on!

I walked out of the cable car station and was staggered by the wind in front of me. I knew that the wind was strong on Table Mountain, but I didn't expect that it was so big that the SLR on my chest was shaking by the wind. No wonder there were fleece jackets sold in the souvenir shop. Although I had a scarf around my neck and a windproof jacket, I was still trembling because I was blown; sunglasses must be worn.

It was not for the sunshade, but for the wind; standing on the edge of the cliff to take a photo, Yun Luo was really worried that he would be blown down, so he immediately retracted after taking a shot; although there was no slope on the top of the mountain.

But there are still many stone steps. I really regretted changing pairs of slippers in the hotel and going out, walking step by step. I couldn't hold the camera firmly no matter where I took a photo. And the SLR accidentally kissed the ground when I got off the car just now, and broke the photosensitive.

Although surrounded by troubles of one kind, when Yun Luo stood by the cliff and looked at the sunset on the Atlantic Ocean, all the problems faded, watching the sun sprinkle a golden light on the sea level. Then slowly disappeared under the sea level, and the many worries and unhappiness that tied Yun Luo seemed to be blown into the Atlantic Ocean by the wind, and slowly sank with the golden light.

"Go on!" Nalan Shiqi's real words woke up the clouds from her meditation. As the sky got darker, she felt that the temperature on the mountain was also decreasing. She immediately hid in the souvenir shop to keep warm. When she saw someone selling postcards, she suddenly wanted to send them to herself to celebrate the magical attraction that would be closed for one-half of the year on the first day she arrived in Cape Town.

There are postcards sold in the store, but the stamps are sold at another shop where the cable car leaves the station and can be sent on their behalf. Because I planned to send postcards to my friends on the boot mailbox, I bought a few more and by the way I bought a few more stamps. This is very wise. Postcards are sold everywhere, but stamps are not so easy to buy.

When the cable car was coming down, it was already brightly lit by thousands of families. I didn’t expect that the night view of Cape Town was so beautiful. Unfortunately, the SLR was broken and I couldn’t take pictures of the night view. I took several photos with my card machine and my mobile phone but failed. I could only record this intoxicating scene with my eyes.

It was already 20:30 when I returned to the hotel. Because there was a large bottle of yogurt at the bottom in the afternoon, Yun Luodao was not hungry, but Nalan Shiqi was already so hungry that she immediately cooked, washed vegetables, started stir-frying, and waited for Yun Luo to take a shower.

4 dishes, 1 soup and rice are already hot in front of me. I especially like pork and corn soup. The pork is very fragrant, it really tastes a long time ago. Corn is recommended by Xiao Zhou. Although it is not very glutinous, it is very sweet and refreshing.

It is a good thing for someone to cook, but good rice is not that delicious. After eating, I washed three pots, 10 plates, 4 bowls, 2 spoons, and 2 pairs of chopsticks brought by Yun Luo.

The foreigner's pots and pans were very large and heavy. After work, Yun Luo didn't even have the strength to eat fruits and went to bed directly. It seemed that he had not been sleeping normally for a long time.

Finally, I was able to lie on the bed and have a good sleep, but when I woke up, I found that it was raining outside the window. It was very heavy, but it was not a shower. This was the most troublesome. Cape Town had the least precipitation in summer, but it made Yunluo encounter a heavy rainy day.

I originally booked to go skydiving this morning, but because the people I traveled with had changed, the time to arrive in Cape Town has changed. Now even the weather has changed, so I had to give up completely and start a regular one-day tour. On the way to "Seal Island", I hurriedly took photos near the "Twelve Disciples". The weather was not good and the scenery was naturally poor.

The seal here is called arctocepha (soft-haired seal), with a fur shining, which is a native species of southern Africa. It breeds on the coastlines of South Africa and Namibia. It has a lifespan of about 20-40 years, a pregnancy period of about 8-12 months, and usually only one child can give birth. Female rarely grows more than 1.7 meters.

The weight is 113 kilograms, and the male seals are about 2.5 meters long and weigh 350 kilograms. They feed on fish, are flexible and free in the water, swim very fast, and can exceed 17 kilometers per hour. They usually hunt on the water surface, and rarely dive deeper than 36 meters. When diving, they close their ears and noses.

Hold your breath, just like sleeping in the water. The little seal floats out every 15 minutes to breathe, while the big seal shows its head every 30 minutes. At the dock where you take a boat, you can see seals that occasionally appear to the water and look at the water.

In 1607, the British ship came here for the first time. The first mate (John Chapman) named a bay in the middle of the Cape Peninsula "chapmanschance". In 1652, after Janvan Ebeeck (John Van Ribeck) logged into the Cape Peninsula, he named it Houtbay (Houtbay, "a" in the road map).

In Dutch, "hout" means: wood. Seal Island is Dirk Island located on Hout Bay. The water depth is about 4-7 meters and the water temperature is about 10-15 degrees Celsius. It is famous for the numerous seals and seagulls on the island. In order to protect the habitat of seals, tourists are prohibited from going to the island.

The boat can only park near long reef groups with an area of ​​about three football fields. Depending on the seasons, at least nearly a thousand, and at most five thousand seals climbed onto the reefs in groups. At the same time, local fishermen also spontaneously protected these animals, creating unique conditions for their reproduction.

This makes this island an excellent place for seals to breed and habitat and also creates a good place for South Africa's tourism. However, in 1985, it was reported that the island was not an ideal breeding place because the island's rocks were sharp and small seals were prone to injury or death, and the peeling period was between January and March.

At this time, the island was filled with seals, and no one was willing to go into the water to eat during the peeling period. At the same time, because the fur of the small seal has extremely high market value and is easily caught, protecting seal breeding is still a difficult task.

There are relatively fewer people taking the boat at noon, and it takes about 20 minutes to drive from the pier to Seal Island. The wind and waves are relatively small in summer. I don’t feel dizzy when I stand outside in the corridor, but it’s a little cold because it’s raining.

It is rare for South Africa to rain next time in summer. Even if it is raining, it will rain. It doesn’t last all day. Cough, don’t Yunluo know that even Xiao Zhou said that it hasn’t rained so heavily in Cape Town for almost 2 months! After hanging up the phone, he fell into a supermarket selling seafood. Although the seafood inside was frozen after treatment.

But it doesn't have a fishy smell, it's very fresh, and the price is much more economical than the Chinese market. Nalan Shiqi wants to buy more and bring it back to Sihai City.
Chapter completed!