Cape Town was founded in 1652. Cape Town is 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 famous for its beautiful natural scenery and docks. Famous landmarks include Table Mountain called "God's Table" and the Cape of Good Hope where the Indian Ocean meets the Atlantic Ocean. This city was once ruled and colonized by European countries such as Holland, Britain, Germany and France. Although it is located in Africa, it is full of multicultural European colonial culture. Cape Town is one of the most beautiful cities in the world and the most popular tourist city in South Africa, because it combines the cultural and natural landscape features of Europe and Africa. Because Cape Town was once ruled by the Netherlands and Britain, the buildings in Cape Town have left a strong European style. In Cape Town, jazz, wine tasting and Dutch-style historic buildings in Cape Town have injected many cultural elements into the city's tourism.
Cape Town is also a good place for outdoor activities, including surfing, diving, fishing, go on road trip, mountain climbing, gliding flight, bird watching and whale watching. There are boat trips to Erffa Beach, Hout Bay and Simonstown in Victoria. In addition, Robben Island is also one of the famous scenic spots that sightseeing boats must pass through. You can also go to Seal Island by boat and watch thousands of South African seals and African penguins on Penguin Beach.
Cape Town, facing the Atlantic Ocean and backed by Table Mountain, is known as one of the most beautiful cities in the world for its unique culture and natural landscape. There are colonial-era ancient houses and European classical commercial buildings, as well as vast Yuan Ye and wild flowers in full bloom, blue sky and beautiful beaches. Famous scenic spots include Table Mountain, Robben Island, Cape of Good Hope and Seal Island.
Table Mountain is often used by the South African government to represent the beauty of South Africa. Altitude1067m. Its name is because the top of the mountain looks like a huge platform. Standing on it, you can overlook the beautiful scenery of Cape Town and Table Bay Harbor. If you are lucky, you can also enjoy the wonderful landscape of white clouds flowing slowly under your feet. There are many endangered local flowers, plants and small wild animals on the mountain.
Robben Island: It is located on an island about 12 km from Cape Town. From17th century to 20th century, Robben Island has different uses. It used to be a prison, a hospital and a military base. Robben Island has imprisoned many black movement leaders and activists, including former South African President nelson mandela. Therefore, Robben Island is regarded as a symbol of South African blacks' opposition to apartheid and their struggle for national freedom and liberation. At the end of 1996, all prisoners in Robben Island Prison were released. 1 997 65438+1October1,Robben Island officially became a museum open to the public. Robben Island is like a history textbook in South Africa, bearing the heavy history of apartheid system and anti-apartheid struggle in South Africa for hundreds of years. Robben Island is a place where you can understand and feel history. From 65438 to 0999, Robben Island was listed as a cultural heritage by the World Heritage Committee.
Cape of Good Hope: Located at the southwestern tip of South Africa, 48km north of Cape Town, at the intersection of Atlantic Ocean and Indian Ocean, and at the end of Cape Peninsula, it is one of the most famous tourist attractions in South Africa. 1488, Portuguese navigator Diaz arrived here while looking for a route from Europe to India. Because of many storms, he was named Storm Corner. However, since then, the eastern waterway leading to the rich is expected, so it was renamed the Cape of Good Hope. As a symbol of Africa, it is a must for every visitor to Africa.
Seal Island: A reef island in Cape Town Bay, located in Hout Bay (meaning Forest Bay). Visitors can visit Seal Island by boat. In order to protect the seal habitat, tourists are forbidden to go to the island. There is a special yacht at the dock to take tourists to watch, and it slowly detours around the outlying islands, allowing tourists to watch seals hunt, play in the water and inhabit at close range.
Bordes Bay between Simmons Town and Cape Town is called Penguin Beach. Thousands of African penguins live here, and flocks of black-footed penguins live on the beach. Visitors can watch groups of penguins surfing, swimming, foraging or enjoying the sunshine on the beach at close range.
Cape Flora Reserve, located in Cape Province, consists of eight protected areas, covering an area of 553,000 hectares. Cape Town Plant Reserve is one of the regions with the richest plant species in the world. This area is less than 0.5% of Africa, but it has nearly 20% of land plants population. The reserve shows the outstanding ecological and biological processes related to the alpine sclerophyllous shrub community (Fynbos) vegetation, which is unique to the Cape flora. The remarkable differentiation, density and endemic distribution of flora are rare in the world. Cape Flora Nature Reserve is located at the southwest end of South Africa. Because of its unique and diverse climate and unique biological environment, it breeds nearly one-fifth of all kinds of plants in Africa. There are about 9000 species of plants in nature reserves, of which about 69% are endemic, 1736 are identified as endangered plants, and 3087 are protected. In terms of the diversity, density and quantity of endemic species, this area is considered to be one of the most special places for plants in the world. It is recognized as one of the hot spots in the world because of the diversity of endemic plants and endangered plants, and it is an outstanding example of important ecological, biological and evolutionary processes. In 2004, the Cape Flower protected area was listed as a natural heritage by the World Heritage Committee.
Constantinia, Grut is the oldest wine estate in South Africa with a history of more than 300 years. Built and named by the first Dutch governor of Cape Town in 1685, the wine produced was favored by Napoleon, Louis Philippe and other royal nobles. Backed by the south foot of Table Mountain and facing Waterfall Bay, it is sunny and rainy. It has a unique geographical location and climatic conditions. The produced red wine is of very high quality and enjoys a good reputation in the world. It is favored by wine lovers all over the world. When you come to the vineyard, you can not only enjoy the beautiful rural scenery and manor customs, but also taste the pure wine.
South Africa's presidential palace is located on a hill in Pretoria, the administrative capital. This is a magnificent European-style building. The whole building is curved, revealing infinite solemnity and momentum. The main building is curved, with a red roof and beige walls. Two symmetrical bell tower buildings are towering into the sky, revealing solemnity and momentum. The hillside in front of the presidential palace is a huge and beautiful garden with monuments, statues, flowers and lawns, which is quite spectacular.
Voor Trekker Memorial Hall is located on a hill south of Pretoria in northern South Africa. This unique memorial hall was built in memory of the pioneers in South Africa. The total height of the building is 4 1 m, and the shape is quadrilateral. There are 1 granite figures in the four corners, representing the leaders of four ancestors. Above the building is a big dome, and the whole building is magnificent.
Sun City is located about 65,438+087 kilometers northwest of Johannesburg, on the border between South Africa and Botswana. It was built by South African billionaire Saul Kozner. 1978 started construction and 1979 was officially completed.
With the popularity of Sun City gradually liberalized, the number of tourists in Sun City also increased at an alarming rate every year. In this case, 1990, Korsner began to build a legendary city within a city, that is, the lost city. Korsner began to build the legendary lost city, * * * transplanted 654.38+0.2 million trees and plants, and built an artificial rain forest. There are trickles and rapids in the swamp area. * * * It took 28 months, 65,438+0, and in February 1992, Korsner finally brought the legendary lost city back to earth. After the opening of the Lost City, the strange and rhythmic entertainment world in the city has become one of the tourism purposes for tourists from all over the world to visit Sun City.
The most exciting thing about Sun City is the "Bridge of Time", which is a footbridge about 100 meters long, connecting the entertainment center and the trough. There will be a loud noise every 1 hour, giving people a feeling of landslide. The loud roar was accompanied by bouts of trembling, as if an earthquake had broken out again. Korsner designed this bridge, telling people that the beautiful lost city was destroyed by a big earthquake and volcanic magma.
In South Africa, Sun City is synonymous with entertainment, food, gambling, comfort, romance and surprise, with luxurious and complete equipment, natural beauty and the reputation of "Xanadu".
Pi Ransborg National Park, also known as Pi Ransborg Wildlife Sanctuary, is the fourth largest national zoo in South Africa, covering an area of more than 500 square kilometers. It's hard to imagine that Billingsburg Wildlife Sanctuary, just across a slope from Sun City, is an unforgettable beauty. Rolling mountains, diverse vegetation types, rich streams and countless wildlife groups constitute the landscape of Yuan Ye, Africa.
There are lions, cheetahs, elephants, rhinoceroses, giraffes, zebras, wildebeests, antelopes and various birds in South Africa in Billingsburg Wildlife Reserve.
Known as the "window of South African culture", Lesedi Cultural Village is a diversified African tribe. There are delicious dishes of African aborigines, authentic folk dance performances and scenes of their daily life. Here you can learn more about the local nationalities and customs in South Africa.
Sun Keqin writes articles and photographs.