A foreign girl is ready to bungee jump. When you see the moment when the foreign girl jumps down, your hair will stand up. Nalan Shiqi is ready to bungee jump. Nalan Shiqi is bungee jumping after jumping up.
There are many monkeys bungee jumping around the bridge. The yellow one is the normal bridge, and there is a section below where people bungee jump on.
There is a bungee jump. It is said that during the rainy season, the bungee jump is only a few centimeters away from the water. Almost all the shops on both sides of Victoria Town sell souvenirs. The few shops are also travel agencies that arrange tours for tourists!
Victoria Town is mostly filled with souvenir shops. Victoria Town is a corner of the town. The locals have inherited the iron head skill, and they can hold heavy objects steadily without falling.
We arrived in Addis Ababa, the capital of Ethiopia, at 10:00 local time, but it was already 15:00 in the afternoon in Beijing. It was cold. The local temperature was only 11 degrees Celsius. I heard from the receptionist Yunluo that there was hail here last night!
First, I took Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo to their office to have a look. It was a three-story building they rented from a local, and the walls were surrounded by barbed wire. It took no more than half an hour to get here from the airport. Along the way, almost all the houses with buildings were surrounded by barbed wire, and some even used electric fences!
The city is as crowded as in China, and the road construction here is far inferior to that of Nanhe City. When you get to the red light, people will come to the side of the car to beg for money. Compared with Zimbabwe and Kenya, Ethiopia has the most common phenomenon of asking for money from others!
Looking all the way, there are not many decent tall buildings. The hotel where Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo live is one of the few tall buildings. The big railing of the hotel is purely manual. There is a big stone on one end. When the car comes, someone slowly loosens the iron chain on the other end, lets the car in, and then pulls the iron chain down!
Pengyo, who helped Nalanshiqi and Yunluo book the hotel, was very smart. He helped Nalanshiqi and Yunluo book a corner room, which is larger than ordinary rooms! Haha, great! The service here is surprisingly good! The coffee in the lobby is free!
Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo went to another five-star hotel for lunch. Self-service. We ate at the self-service restaurant those days. Oh! I really miss the duck blood vermicelli soup in Nanhe City!
After lunch, we started to wander around! From the Wildlife Museum to Addis Ababa University to the black market to buy black wood, opal and the like, all of which were paid for by Lan Seqi and Yun Luo! It was great! Yun Luo also bought a lot of things, including black wood carvings, candlesticks, ox horn cups, African guitars and other miscellaneous items.
Friends also bought opals, beeswax and other things, but Yunluo was not particularly interested, and felt embarrassed to have other people pay for them, hehe! (By the way, let me introduce Pengyo. Actually, he is the son of Yunluo's uncle's eldest brother, hehe, so he is also Yunluo's Pengyo! They accompanied Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo until the end of the trip to Kenya! I really want to thank Yunluo Pengyo!)
The local currency here, 100 yuan, is equivalent to about 33 yuan.
I had breakfast at the hotel in the morning. There wasn't much to eat in Ethiopia, and at least sausages and bacon were rarely seen in buffets. But the juice was good, and mangoes and papayas are abundant here.
The wz resort is less than two hours' drive from the city center. I chatted with my brother and sister-in-law along the way. I know that the local calendar in Ethiopia is based on 13 months as one year.
I checked into the hotel last night. It was too late to see it clearly. In the morning, I took a closer look. It was as green as a primeval forest! The early morning sun beams penetrated through the mango trees and onto the grass - very refreshing.
Most of the mangoes on the mango tree had been eaten by the blue birds. Yunluo picked one and dragged it around in his luggage until the end of the trip. The mango was still hard, so he had to leave it in the hotel.
This day was a big festival for Muslims - Kaishan Festival. Many shops were closed for the festival. I had to go to two or three shops to buy Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo's mineral water!
After lunch, Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo headed for the Blue Nile Falls. Yunluo's butt was almost bruised after two hours of bumpy ride. I really admire my friends, they can fall asleep in the car despite such a bumpy ride, it's amazing! After passing a market, everyone brought out their cattle and sheep to sell, and bought some other things to take back.
The scenery and air along the way are amazing, and the other side of the symmetry is: the primitive lifestyle.
Houses made of wooden strips, roofs made of hay, walls made of mud and cow dung to keep out wind and rain. And the inconvenience of using water, seeing many people passing by the roadside carrying buckets of water on their backs or heads. There is basically no electricity in the village.
The people here enjoy extremely high air quality and beautiful natural scenery, but they have to worry about a bucket of clean water or a dinner every day; Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo have a very convenient daily life, and almost no one worries about water, electricity and filling their stomachs, but they live in foggy air all day long.
God is fair. When you choose one thing, you will inevitably lose another. If people living in cities complain about the bad air all day long, they can choose to live in remote mountainous areas. If you live in the city for a long time, you will no longer be able to bear the convenience of no water and electricity.
Then please live in the city with peace of mind. After all, in some ways, Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo are already living in heaven.
The ticket office of the Blue Nile Scenic Area is not at the entrance of the scenic area. Tourists must first go to the ticket office to buy tickets. Then the scenic area will send a tour guide to go to the scenic area with Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo's car to lead the way and explain the whole way.
When we arrived at the entrance of the scenic spot, many children swarmed around us, asking for money or pens. Yunluo regretted that she didn't know that there was such a need for pens here. If she had known earlier, she could have brought a big bag of pens from China to distribute!
The children knew that in order to get money, they had to pay - so along the way, the children vied to help Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo lead the way, and reminded them from time to time that the stones under their feet were not easy to walk on.
Etc. Although I sometimes dislike their noise and the fact that they attract so many flies, deep down in my heart, I really want to give them money one by one. However, I am so insignificant, how many people can I really help in the end?
The scenery of the Blue Nile is of course extremely beautiful.
Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo took a flight to Kenya in the afternoon, and packed their luggage at the hotel in the morning. The trip to Kenya was booked for four days, so Yunluo planned to bring only clothes and items for four days, and pack the rest to be left at my brother's office. --It's really convenient to have a base, hehe!
Everything was ready. When we gathered in the hotel lobby, we learned that the room of the boss of my brother's office was robbed last night. We were originally planning to have a big meal before boarding the plane, but after this incident, we were in no mood. Anyway, they called the police, and we don't know what the result will be!
It was almost dark when we arrived at the Nairobi hotel. The hotel was very beautiful. I regretted it again. Every time I stayed in such a beautiful hotel, it was at night, and I couldn't enjoy the hotel facilities and appreciate the flowers and plants in the hotel.
There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!
Today we are going to drive from Nairobi to Masai Mara, which takes five or six hours - the most difficult driving experience I have ever had - dust all over my face, body and nose, and constant bumps. However, it turns out that after hard work, there will be good surprises waiting for you!
I got up at 6:30 in the morning, and while having breakfast, I desperately wrote down everything I saw and heard in my notebook. When I asked Yunluo what he was writing, he said he wanted to write down everything he saw.
But they are all memories! I am afraid Yunluo will forget them after a long time, haha! What he said next made Yunluo excited for the whole day: Why remember it! If you forget it, just come back next time! Kenya will have a lot of business in the future! -- I am happy. Come back next time, ha!
On the way to Masai Mara, the East African Great Rift Valley is a must-go place. Like tourist attractions in China, there are some small shops selling water and souvenirs on the roadside at the best viewing points of the East African Great Rift Valley. It is worth mentioning that in Africa, even in such a simple place, toilets provide toilet paper, which is very commendable!
We arrived in Dubai comfortably. I didn't feel the legendary luxury. The three-hour layover time went by quite quickly. I familiarized myself with the duty-free shop, had something to eat, and then the flight was almost over.
In addition, a friendly reminder, electronic products are much more expensive than in China. Yunluo's DV cost 6,000 yuan in Dubai, but Yunluo bought it on Taobao for 4,000 yuan. iPads are also more expensive than in China. As for the watch that everyone said was very cheap, a watch costing more than 2,000 yuan, Yunluo also checked it online at the time, and it was about 400 yuan more expensive than the purchase in Hong Kong.
I didn't see the cosmetics, so I can't say anything, but I heard that they are more expensive than T3. I bought some souvenirs from Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo. I spent a total of dhs405 = about 800 yuan. The UAE currency, dirham, is abbreviated as dhs, and the exchange rate with RMB is 1:2.
Compared with the business class flight on the first trip, the 5 hours of this trip were extremely painful. However, Yunluo found new fun. He watched a movie called Elsa the Lion, played a memory puzzle game in the second half of the trip, and had two meals. Nairobi Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo came.
At 19:15 local time, Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo finally set foot on African soil. Tension, uneasiness and danger filled Yunluo's mind.
Before the trip, they had collected too much information about the poor security in Nairobi. Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo's brains repeatedly reminded them to be careful, pay attention to safety, and be vigilant at all times! Even before they got off the plane, Nalan Shiqi, Yunluo and the other two were already on edge, as if they would be robbed as soon as they stepped out of the plane.
The customs clearance was smooth. Xiao D and his friend didn't have yellow books and were not checked. When Yun Luo passed the customs, he saw the pick-up sign with Yun Luo's Chinese name printed on it! Haha, I was relieved that I didn't get stood up. (To be continued...)