South Africa is known as the "Rainbow Country", is a wild African and integrated cultural landscape of the charming country, it spans the civilization and the primitive two completely different worlds, colorful humanistic culture, simple original color and dynamic modern civilization here perfectly integrated, no language is enough to depict the beauty and magic of South Africa. In 2009, I embarked on my trip to South Africa.
South Africa
Cape Town was founded in 1652 as the first city established by white Europeans in South Africa, the second largest city in South Africa, and the legislative capital of South Africa. Cape Town is world-renowned for its beautiful natural landscapes and marinas, with notable landmarks such as Table Hill, known as the "Table of God", and the Cape of Good Hope, the meeting point of the Indian and Atlantic Oceans. The city has been ruled and colonized by the Netherlands, Britain, Germany, France and other European countries, although it is located in Africa, it is full of diverse European colonial cultures. Cape Town combines European and African cultural and natural features, making it one of the most beautiful cities in the world and the most popular tourist city in South Africa. Due to cape town's relationship with Dutch and British rule, Cape Town's architecture has a strong continental style. In Cape Town, jazz, wine tasting, Cape Town's Dutch historic buildings, etc., have injected a lot of cultural elements into the city's tourism industry.
Cape Town
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The author of this article is in Cape Town
The author of this article is in South Africa
Cape Town is also a great place for outdoor activities including surfing, diving, fishing, driving excursions, mountain climbing, gliding flights, bird watching and whale watching. Boat trips are available on Victoria's Elfat Waterfront, Hout Bay and Simonstown. In addition, Robben Island is also one of the famous attractions that sightseeing boats must pass, and you can also take a cruise ship to Seal Island to see thousands of South African seals, and the African penguins at Penguin Beach.
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Seal Island
Facing the Atlantic Ocean and backed by Table Mountain, Cape Town has a distinct cultural and natural landscape and is known as one of the most beautiful cities in the world. There are colonial-era mansions and European classical-style commercial buildings, as well as vast wilderness and blooming wildflowers, blue skies and beautiful beaches. Notable attractions include Table Mountain, Robben Island, Cap of Good Hope, Seal Island and more.
Cape Town faces the Atlantic Ocean with table mountains to its back
South African teenager
Table Mountain (Table Mountain) is often used by the South African government to represent the beauty of South Africa, 1067 meters above sea level, because the top of the mountain is like a huge platform and named, standing on top of Table Mountain, you can overlook cape town, table bay harbor beautiful scenery. If you're lucky, you'll also be able to enjoy the amazing view of white clouds slowly flowing beneath your feet. The mountain is also home to a variety of endangered native flowers, plants and small wildlife.
Table Mountain National Park
Robben Island: Located on a small island about 12 km from Cape Town. Robben Island was used differently from the 17th century to the 20th century, and it was once a prison, hospital and military base. Robben Island has imprisoned many black movement leaders and activists, including former South African President Mandela. As a result, Robben Island is seen as a symbol of Black South Africans' opposition to apartheid and their struggle for national freedom and liberation. At the end of 1996, all the prisoners in Robben Island Prison were released. On 1 January 1997, Robben Island officially became a museum open to the public. Robben Island is like a history textbook in South Africa, carrying the thick history of South Africa's apartheid system and anti-apartheid struggle for hundreds of years. Robben Island is a place where you can learn about and feel the history. In 1999, Robben Island was inscribed on the World Heritage List by the World Heritage Committee as a cultural heritage.
Robben Island
Cap of Good Hope: At the southwestern tip of South Africa, 48 km north of Cape Town, at the confluence of the Atlantic and Indian Oceans, at the end of the Cape Peninsula, it is one of South Africa's most famous tourist destinations. In 1488, the Portuguese navigator Dias arrived here while looking for a European route to India, and was named Storm Point due to the many storms. However, the eastern shipping route to the riches was promising, so it was renamed the Cape of Good Hope. As a symbol of Africa, it is a must-visit place for every tourist enthusiast who comes to Africa.
Cape
The author of this article is at the Cape of Good Hope
Seal Island: A reef island nestled in cape town bay, located in Hout Bay (meaning Forest Bay). Visitors can take a boat to Seal Island, which is forbidden to visit the island in order to protect the seal habitat. The marina has a special yacht to take visitors to the viewing, and slowly detours around the island, allowing visitors to watch the seals preying, splashing and roosting up close.
Cruise ship to Seal Island
Boulders Bay between Simons-Town and Cape Point in Cape Town is known as Penguin Beach. Thousands of African penguins live here, and the beach is inhabited by flocks of black-footed penguins, so visitors can watch the herds of penguins surfing, splashing, foraging or soaking up the sun on the beach.
Burdes Bay
Penguin Beach
Penguin Beach Observation Deck
Located in the Cape Province of South Africa, the Cape Flora Reserve consists of 8 protected areas covering 553 000 hectares. The Cape Flora Reserve is one of the most plant-rich areas in the world. This area of less than 0.5% of Africa has nearly 20% of the terrestrial flora. This protected area demonstrates the outstanding ecological and biological processes associated with the vegetation of alpine sclerophyll shrub communities (Fynbos) and is endemic to the Cape Flora. The degree of differentiation, density and endemic distribution of flora are among the few in the world. The Cape Flora Reserve is located at the southwestern tip of South Africa because of its unique diversity of climate and unique biological environment, which is home to nearly one-fifth of all types of plants in Africa. There are about 9000 species of plants in the reserve, of which about 69% are endemic, 1736 are identified as endangered plants and 3087 are protected. In terms of the diversity, density and number of endemic species, this area is considered one of the most special places for plants in the world. Recognized as one of the world's hot spots for its diversity of endemic and endangered plants, it is a prominent example of important ecological, biological and evolutionary processes. In 2004, the Cape Floral Region Protected Areas were inscribed on the World Heritage List by the World Heritage Committee as a natural heritage site.
Cape Flora Reserve
Groot Constantia is the oldest wine estate in South Africa, dating back more than 300 years, named after the first Dutch governor of Cape Town in 1685, and the wine produced was favored by Napoleon, King Louis Philippe and other royal nobles. It is backed by the southern foothills of Table Mountain, facing Folls Bay, abundant sunshine, abundant rainfall, with a unique geographical location and climatic conditions, the production of red wine is very high-quality, world-renowned, favored by wine lovers all over the world, come to the vineyard can not only enjoy the beautiful idyllic scenery and manor style, but also taste the pure taste of wine.
The author of this article is at a wine estate
Located on a hill in pretoria, the administrative capital of South Africa, the Presidential Palace of South Africa is a majestic European-style building, the whole building is arc-shaped, revealing infinite solemnity and grandeur, the main building is arc-shaped, red roof, beige wall, two symmetrical bell tower-style buildings towering, revealing solemnity and momentum. On the hillside in front of the Presidential Palace is a huge staircase-shaped beautiful garden dotted with monuments, statues, flowers, and lawns, which is quite spectacular.
Pretoria
The author of this article takes a picture in front of the Presidential Palace
Presidential palace
The Voortrekker Monument is located on a hill in southern Pretoria, northern South Africa, and was created to commemorate the pioneers of the southern African interior. The total height of the building is 41 meters, the shape is quadrangular, and there is a granite figure sculpture on each of the four corners, which represent the leaders of the four ancestors. Above the building is a large dome, and the whole building is majestic.
Ancestor Memorial
The surroundings of the Ancestors Memorial
Located about 187 kilometers northwest of Johannesburg and on South Africa's border with Botswana, Sun City was built by South African billionaire Sol Kerzner, began construction in 1978 and was officially completed in 1979.
Sun City
As Sun City's fame began to open, so did the number of visitors to Sun City at an astonishing rate every year, and in 1990, Kosna began to build the legendary City within a city, The Lost City. It took 28 months for Cosna to build the legendary Lost City, transplanting 1.2 million trees and plants of all kinds, creating a man-made rainforest, a swampy area, a trickling stream and a rushing rapid, and in December 1992, Kosner finally brought the legendary Lost City back to life. After the opening of the Lost City, the city's strange and rhythmic entertainment world has become one of the tourist attractions of tourists from all over the world to visit Sun City.
The most exciting thing in Sun City is the Bridge of Time, a 100-meter-long pedestrian bridge that connects the entertainment center to the Valley of Waves. It makes a loud "booming" sound every 1 hour, giving people the feeling of a landslide cracking, and a huge roar is accompanied by a series of tremors, as if the earthquake has erupted again. Kosner designed the bridge to show that the beautiful Lost City was destroyed by a major earthquake and volcanic magma.
The author of this article is in Sun City "Bridge of Time"
In South Africa, Sun City is synonymous with entertainment, food, gambling, comfort, romance and wonder, luxurious and complete equipment and natural beauty, with the reputation of "paradise".
Billingsburg National Park
Pilanesberg National Park, also known as the Pilanesberg Game Reserve, is South Africa's fourth largest national zoo and covers an area of more than 500 square kilometers. The Birinsburg Wildlife Sanctuary, which is unimaginably just a slope away from Sun City, is an unforgettable landscape, with rolling hills, diverse vegetation types, water-rich streams and countless wildlife scenes in the African wilderness.
Wildlife sanctuary
The Birinsburg Wildlife Sanctuary is home to South African lions, cheetahs, elephants, rhinos, giraffes, zebras, wildebeests, antelopes and a variety of birds.
Lesedi Folk Village
Folk Village
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The author of this article is in the Folk Village
Known as the "Window of South African Culture", Lesedi Cultural Village is a diverse African tribe. It's home to the delicacies of the indigenous Africans, pristine folk dance performances, and scenes from their daily lives. Here you can learn more about the local ethnic and living customs of South Africa.
Sun Keqin wrote and photographed