Yunluo and Nalan Shiqi sat on the bald tire of this car and told the driver that Heige's tire not only had no marks, but even the tendon line was worn out. The boy smiled and said: It's okay, there are two spare tires, and we will change them when the tire bursts. ------Change it when the tire bursts! It's too painful, but in Africa, people will only change the tire when the tire bursts.

A second-hand Toyota car, I don't know how many kilometers it has. The car is running all the way in the field, but the speed and speed on the dashboard are all displayed---zero! So when driving this car, you have to guess the speed!

National Geographic says that the most spectacular flock of flamingos is at Lake Nakuru, but that is history. Due to excessive tourism development and environmental changes, there are fewer and fewer birds in Nakuru now. To find the most spectacular flock of birds, you need to go further to Lake Bogoria, north of the equator, which can be called Lake Bogoria in Chinese.

There is the world's largest flock of flamingos here, with a peak count of 1.8 million last year! This is our destination today, a seven-hour drive away, very far.

This is a photo taken on the equator when crossing the equator. Note the lion's teeth and cheetah's claws on the neck. They were bought from Maasai people on the grassland. They are genuine! I feel that this is actually a shameful act of not protecting animals! But to be more precise, it was forced on Yunluo by the Maasai natives. At that time, I sat in a cow dung house of a Maasai for a while. The family was very poor.

After a brief chat, he said he had nothing but animal claws and fangs, and asked Yunluo to sell them for some money. Finally, the kid saw him sitting on a pile of cow dung and thought he would help him, so he gave him $60. The guy insisted on giving it to Yunluo. There was leopard hair at the base of the cheetah's claws, the most primitive ornament.

I parked at a gas station and saw a person lying on the side of the road. I didn't know if he was sick or dead, he just lay there motionless, as if he had stopped breathing. Why didn't anyone go to see him? Yunluo wanted to go and see what was going on. But the driver stopped him and told him not to do anything in Africa. I was so confused that I didn't go. It was a pity!

I wonder if he has died on the roadside now. Africa, I don't want to exaggerate these, but I do see a lot of tragedies in the world!

After seven hours of trekking, we finally arrived at our hotel, Lake Bogoria Sparesort, in the afternoon. There is the word spa. It is because Bogoria is a volcanic lake, and there are hot springs everywhere around it. After putting down the luggage, we ran straight out the door to Bogoria Lake, which is a few kilometers away. Flamingo Yunluo is coming!

The first group of birds we saw was Flamingo. I won't explain how spectacular it was, just look at the photos. Flamingo, in English, is probably named after its fiery red color.

The red color is not the original feather color of flamingos, but comes from the plankton they ingest. The reason why flamingos, salmon, shrimps, crabs, etc. are attractive bright red is because they are rich in astaxanthin.

Animals cannot synthesize asta. Flamingos pass on asta by eating shrimp, small fish, algae, plankton, etc., which makes their originally white feathers shine bright red. They are not the reddest they have seen so far.

Bogoria is located on the edge of the Kenya Rift Valley. It is a calcium carbonate lake, not a freshwater lake, with an area of ​​about 30 square kilometers. There are quite a few hot springs on the lakeshore, most of which are at boiling point and have a lot of steam.

Eggs can be easily cooked in a short time. In addition, there are quite a lot of blue-green algae and diatoms in Lake Bogoria, which makes the lake surface appear different colors, such as yellow, pink and purple, when the sunlight shines at different times.

This is a flamingo feather I found by the lake. I picked up a few more and took them home as souvenirs. This is a hot spring by the lake, and all that comes out is boiling water. I bought a few eggs and put them in. They cooked in a few minutes, and the taste is different when boiled in carbonated water.

When I got back to my place, I found some monkeys on the grass of the hotel. They were black-faced long-tailed monkeys. I took some small things to feed them. The monkeys were colorful: black face, yellow back, white belly, red buttocks and penis, and the most incredible thing was that their testicles were blue.

After arriving in Kenya and learning about it for several days, I finally understood why there are so many animals and why they are not afraid of people. The reason why there are so many animals is not because there are too many of them, and no one will hurt them. I can't imagine that some Africans would not think of killing two animals to eat even if they are starving to death.

This cannot be interpreted as advanced awareness of animal protection. Because most of them are uneducated, this is related to the traditional beliefs and eating habits of Kenyans. I heard from the Chinese living there that they don't even eat many seafood products, and they don't eat the internal organs of animals such as pig feet and pig tails. No one wants pig feet, so they sell them to Chinese people cheaply, one yuan each.

Kenya is called a paradise for wild animals. Before coming here, I thought it was because the environment here is suitable for survival. After coming here, I finally realized that it is actually because of the people here that they can live together, even if there are animals that may threaten people's safety. This reminded Yunluo of the previous time in China, when a wolf seemed to have injured two people.

The police and armed police were mobilized, and even a few dogs in the village were killed. It made people think that if these animals were still there, even if there were 10 million animals, they would not be able to survive for a year. Even many people in the same group, including Yunluo himself, would kill two animals as a joke to eat them. To Kenyans, this sounded like insanity.

This is the restaurant with anteaters that you have seen on TV, the anthill. Some are two or three meters high, and some are four or five meters high. They are all built little by little by tiny ants. If compared with the human scale, they should be tens of thousands of meters high, as high as the skyscrapers in space. You can't see them on the grassland, but in the bogoria area, you can see one every 500 meters. Maybe this is a paradise for ants.

I always take a photo of the sunset at the end of each day! The same sunset, but a different beauty every day!

The goal of the new day is Aberdare National Park. In Chinese, it can be called Amberdale National Park. There is a very famous Treetops Hotel here.

As the name suggests, it is a hotel with rooms built on the treetops. The hotel is built on a tree in the forest, with a large pond in front, which is a must-see for many animals nearby. So here you can lie on the bed and watch the animals fight up close.

Hehe, just kidding. Last time, I had an idea after crossing the equator from the southern hemisphere to the northern hemisphere. When I returned to the southern hemisphere and crossed the equator, Yunluo wanted to take a photo of myself in the southern and northern hemispheres and merge them into one. This is the finished product. The cloud on the left fell in the southern hemisphere, and the cloud on the right fell in the northern hemisphere.

It should be noted that the place where this sign was erected is not the equator in the traditional sense, but the equator of absolute geographical location. So how can Yunluo be sure of it? The two green water cups under the sign can prove it.

You should have learned in high school physics that when an object moves perpendicular to the Earth's latitude on the Earth's surface, due to inertia, the object will tend to maintain its original speed and direction relative to the ground. This is called the Coriolis force. In the northern hemisphere, objects move from south to north, and in the southern hemisphere, the opposite is true.

Put it here and watch: a small hole in the basin leaks water to form a vortex. Put a match in it to see the direction of the vortex. It rotates clockwise 10 meters north of the equator sign, and immediately turns counterclockwise 10 meters south of the sign. When it is directly below the sign, it stops rotating, which means this is the absolute equator.

Today the journey is not too far, just three or four hours. We arrived at the treetops reception. The reception of the treetop hotel is actually 17 kilometers away from the hotel in the forest. I don't understand why it is so far away!

Before going to the treetops, I walked into a primitive village in the forest by myself, because no one else wanted to go there, and a guy saw the primitive village from a distance and left. Yunluo insisted on going, and finally gave the natives ten dollars as a bribe and they agreed to let Yunluo go into the village for a visit.

There is no mistake in the poem, post, content, and read the book on 6, 9, and bar!

I don't know what race this is. I asked for their names but they were too weird to remember. They were dressed in primitive and strange clothes. I asked to take a photo with this family. Then the man pulled out a knife and put it on Yunluo's neck without saying anything. Yunluo was so scared that she broke out in a cold sweat! But the guy said that this was a very welcome look for Yunluo.

Well, it turns out that some natives in Africa welcome people by putting a knife on their necks. In that case, Yunluo will just get into a posture of waiting to die and cooperate with you!

I don't know what kind of bird it is, but it has a big beak - it looks like a hornbill. I took this photo on the way to Treetops. I don't know what kind of monkey it is. I arrived at the Treetops Hotel. This is a photo taken at the entrance. It is connected to a big tree.

Here is a panoramic view. A friend said this place is suitable for shooting horror movies! The hotel's exterior walls are all rotten tree bark, which looks very shabby. But the inside is better than expected, with clean beds, independent bathrooms, and a western restaurant where you can drink coffee while watching animals. It is n times better than the Masai Mara!

The first thing you see when you enter the door is a buffalo skull that was eaten by a lion on April 8, 1980.

This is the first view when entering the room. It feels good. You can see the pond in front of you while lying on the bed. It is very quiet here during the day, with only a few buffaloes and wild boars wandering around. But at night, when a large number of animals come out, it becomes lively. I will lie down and watch the show tonight.

The history of treetops, it is called treetops because there were only one or two houses on the trees. At that time, it was mainly built for the convenience of observing animals. Later, it was developed into a hotel and increased to 30 rooms. So the later building was built on the wooden piles. The first floor is all overhead, and the side is surrounded by high-voltage electric fences to prevent animal attacks.

There is a famous story about treetops. In 1952, the current Queen Elizabeth II, who was still a princess, came to the colony to play. She stayed at treetops that day, and received the news that her father had died. So she returned home immediately. In fact, when she came down from the tree, she was already the Queen of England. Therefore, there is a famous saying in treetops that people who live here "are princesses when they go up the tree, and queens when they come down the tree." (To be continued...)