South Africa's tourism resource information is very good. If you enter the name of any town on le, you can almost always find the town's official website with detailed tourism information. Tourist attractions like Table Mountain also have their own official websites, which clearly state the opening hours of the cable car in different time periods (weather permitting).

The sunset time of each day, special offers at different times of the year, etc. If you go up the mountain after 18:00, you will be charged the cable car fee for 1 person for 2 people. If you want to climb up by yourself, you can do it at any time, and there is no ticket 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 long queues during the day, but you can also enjoy the sunset view at half the price (the original adult price is 1082 meters above sea level). Table Mountain (Table Mountain, "C" in the route map) was named by the Portuguese navigator Antoniosaldanha, meaning tabo acaba ("Cape Table"). Before that, the original name of the mountain was the local Coain Sea Mountain. The mountain is 1,082 meters above sea level and is named because the top of the mountain is flat like a table. The peaks are long and flat, and the weather is majestic. The entire top of Table Mountain covers more than 40 square kilometers. When the visibility is good, you can stand on the top of the mountain to enjoy the Cape Town coast, the entire city and Robben Island where Mandela was imprisoned for nearly 30 years.

Other peaks include Lion Rock, Signal Hill, and Devil's Peak. From here you can see that the earth is round because the horizon is an endless coastline. Although Table Mountain is not high.

However, due to the influence of the warm and humid air currents from the Atlantic Ocean, the top of the mountain is often covered with fog, which is called the "tablecloth". When there are clouds or strong winds, the cable car of Table Mountain is closed, but if you can climb to the top of the mountain at this time, the view you see is the vast sea of ​​clouds that can also shock your heart.

Table Mountain has a 1,220-meter-long 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 reopened to tourists. Two new circular cable cars can provide passengers with a 360-degree full open view, and each car can accommodate 65 people. During the ascent of the cable car.

I was shocked by the scenery in front of me. The Indian tour group behind me kept screaming. The most populous countries in the world really have a lot of similarities. Because it is a 360-degree rotation, you can clearly see the surrounding scenery. Occasionally, I glanced and saw a foreigner climbing up alone with a vigorous step.

He must be an experienced person. But it was not long before the sun set, and we had to reach the top of the mountain before dark to catch the last cable car down the mountain. Otherwise, it would be very difficult no matter how experienced and strong we were. Come on!

When I walked out of the cable car station, I staggered in the wind. I knew it was windy on Table Mountain, but I didn't expect it to be so strong. The SLR on my chest was swaying in the wind. No wonder there are fleece jackets for sale in the souvenir shop. Even though I had a scarf around my neck and a windproof jacket on, I was still shivering; I had to wear sunglasses.

It's not for sun protection, but for wind protection; when standing on the edge of the cliff to take pictures, Yunluo was really worried that he would be blown down, so he immediately pulled back after taking the picture; although there is no slope on the top of the mountain.

But there are still many stone steps. I really regretted changing into a pair of slippers at the hotel. I was so unsteady when I walked. I couldn't hold the camera steady no matter where I stood to take pictures. When I got off the car just now, my SLR accidentally kissed the ground and broke the photosensitive lens.

Although surrounded by all kinds of troubles, when Yunluo stood on the cliff and looked at the sunset over the Atlantic Ocean, all the problems faded away, watching the sun cast a golden light on the sea level. Then slowly disappeared below the sea horizon, and the many troubles and unhappiness that bound Yunluo seemed to be blown into the Atlantic Ocean by the wind, and slowly sank with the golden light.

"Okay, come down!" Nalan Shiqi's pragmatic words woke Yunluo from his thoughts. As the sky gradually darkened, he felt that the temperature on the mountain was also dropping. He immediately hid in the souvenir shop to keep warm. Seeing that there were postcards for sale, he suddenly wanted to send one to himself to celebrate that he could climb this magical attraction which was closed for 12 hours a year on the first day of his arrival in Cape Town.

The store sells postcards, but stamps need to be bought from another store at the cable car exit, which can mail them. I planned to mail postcards to friends at the boot mailbox, so I bought a few more, and also bought a few more stamps. This is a wise move, because postcards are sold everywhere, but stamps are not so easy to buy.

When we got off the cable car, the lights of every house were already shining brightly. I never expected that the night view of Cape Town would be so beautiful. Unfortunately, my SLR camera was broken and I couldn't take pictures of the night view. I tried taking several pictures with my point-and-shoot camera and mobile phone but all failed. I could only use my eyes to record this intoxicating scene.

It was past 20:30 when they returned to the hotel. Yunluo was not hungry because he had a large bottle of yogurt in the afternoon. But Nalan Shiqi was already very hungry. She immediately cooked, washed the vegetables, and started stir-frying, waiting for Yunluo to take a bath.

4 dishes, 1 soup and rice were already placed in front of us. I especially like the pork and corn soup. The pork is very fragrant, and it really tastes like it was a long time ago. The corn was recommended by Xiao Zhou. Although it is not very sticky, it is very sweet and refreshing.

It’s a good thing to have someone cook for you, but good food is not always that delicious. After dinner, I had to wash three pots of different sizes, 10 plates, four bowls, two spoons, and two pairs of chopsticks that Yunluo brought.

The foreigners' pots and pans were particularly large and heavy. After working, Yunluo didn't even have the energy to eat fruit. He went straight to bed and slept soundly, as if he hadn't slept properly for a long time.

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

I had originally planned to go skydiving this morning, but because the people I was traveling with had changed, the time I arrived in Cape Town had changed, and now even the weather had changed, I had 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 bad, and the scenery was naturally poor.

The weight is 113 kilograms, and the male seal is about 2.5 meters long and weighs 350 kilograms. They feed on fish, are flexible in the water, and can swim very fast, exceeding 17 kilometers per hour. They usually hunt on the surface of the water 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 small seals surface to breathe every 15 minutes, and the big seals only surface every 30 minutes. At the dock where you take the boat, you can see seals occasionally surfacing to look around.

In Dutch, "hout" means "wood". Seal Island is Deke Island in 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 large number of seals and seagulls on the island. In order to protect the seal habitat, tourists are prohibited from entering the island.

The boats can only stop near a long strip of reefs that is about the size of three football fields. Depending on the season, there are as few as a thousand and as many as five thousand seals that come to live on the reefs in groups. At the same time, local fishermen also spontaneously protect these animals, creating unique conditions for their reproduction.

This makes the island an excellent place for seals to breed and live, and also creates a good place for tourism in South Africa. However, in 1985, it was reported that the island was not an ideal breeding ground because the rocks on the island were sharp and the seal pups were easily injured or killed. The molting period is from January to March.

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At this time, the island is crowded with seals, and no one is willing to go into the water to eat during the molting period. At the same time, because the fur of baby seals has extremely high market value and is easily hunted, protecting seal reproduction is still a difficult task.

There were relatively fewer people taking the boat at noon. It took about 20 minutes to drive from the pier to Seal Island. The wind and waves were relatively small in summer, and I didn’t feel dizzy standing in the corridor outside, but it was a bit chilly because of the rain.

It rarely rains in South Africa in the summer, and even if it does, it's just showers, not a whole day. Well, doesn't Yunluo know that even Xiao Zhou said that it hasn't rained this hard in Cape Town for almost two months! After hanging up the phone, I went straight into a supermarket selling seafood. The seafood in it was processed and frozen.

But there is no fishy smell and it is very fresh. The price is much more economical than that in the Chinese market. Nalan Shiqi wishes he could buy more and bring it back to Sihai City.

For lunch, we had fried shrimp or squid, French fries, or hamburgers. The food was packed in a paper box and tasted good, as the ingredients were fresh, but there were no vegetables. Although there were waiters, most of the foreigners cleaned up after eating. The trash can was made to look like a beer barrel. I wouldn't have known it if I hadn't told you. (To be continued...)