In the summer vacation of 2018, I took my daughter to drive around Southeast Asia and came back. I always felt unsatisfied. It was like drinking the Suntory series of Hibiki 21 and thought it was very good. In fact, what I really longed for was the essence of Hibiki 30. This kind of deeper My taste is to explore wild Africa.
People like us always yearn for the unknown world, just like people or things we can’t get, we always think about it. Before I went to the African continent, in my impression, it was poverty, primitive simplicity, war, and plague, that’s all. Danger is enough to awaken our desire to explore.
Fasten your seat belts as our Wild Africa tour is long and packed with content.
On April 20th, 2019, we have been waiting for almost a year. Before we set off, God gave us a problem. Due to the heavy rain in Hong Kong, we were delayed by four beers at Pudong Airport. We were worried that the connecting flight would fly from Hong Kong. After leaving, we landed at Hong Kong Airport in the middle of the night and were taken by the staff to board the plane, but our luggage may not be able to board the plane at the same time. At Hong Kong Airport, we met Yuanshuo from Beijing and Baobao from Nanjing, thinking about many uncertainties Sex arrived in Johannesburg, South Africa after a 15-hour flight. When I got off the plane, I saw my luggage on the luggage carousel. I was overjoyed and gave a thumbs up to the Hong Kong airport staff. I spent more than 30 hours at the airport and on the plane. . Without luggage we would have waited two days in Johannesburg which would have affected all our itinerary plans. In Johannesburg, we joined forces with Lao Wang and his wife who set off from Xi’an, and the team for the first part of the trip was assembled. Fortunately, this little episode was a little joke given to us by the old man in the sky.
When we were still in T2, the Yuanshuo plane departing from Beijing was struck by lightning, and everyone was asked to get off the plane for inspection. I don’t know who on the plane swore wrongly.
According to Lao Zhu’s mantra, everything has been arranged. Indeed, he has arranged everything well.
South African guide Brian and his son Peter picked us up, and we went straight to Durban before we had time to rest.
The mood along the way is calm and happy, I don’t know why there is no smile or sorrow, just plain and fast.
The 3-hour drive to Durban, the scenery along the way is like the scenery along the road from Charles de Gaulle Airport to downtown Paris. I’ve been wondering if we’re in Africa.
Three old hooligans…
In the evening we stayed at PT’s house, eating and drinking while planning the next arrangement.
D2. Because there is no gym, my roommate Jeff and I went out for a morning jog early in the morning.
In the morning, we started to cross the Hluhluwe-imfolozi Reserve, just before checking the guns and drones.
many monkeys on the tree
And the papa papa monkeys are so natural.
The monkey on the far left doesn’t know what role it is.
Suddenly, we found a large herd of wild elephants. We didn’t speak in the car, the engine was turned off, and we watched quietly. Wild elephants are still dangerous.
The wild elephants went to find water to drink.
One ear was pricked up to listen to the movement on our side.
zebra, zebra
Accidentally ran into a big guy.
Handsome Jeff and the rhino who ignored us.
A herd of gazelle at breakfast
tall guy who is easy to spot
Pumbaa in The Lion King
According to Brian said the pig taste very good.
The ruler of the African land blocked the way, and Brian said that her wife had not seen a lion in Durban for 25 years. There is also a group of lionesses to the right of it.
It is estimated that this male lion has just captured this territory, because on the road, I saw a male lion with an injured right hind leg moaning and slowly disappearing into the bushes. I guess it will not live long, but no one can help it. It, because that’s the law of nature. Brian stopped to talk to a driver when he encountered a car.
termite nest
Clouds enveloped the entire reserve, and it was like a super zoo. In the afternoon we headed to the seaside resort hotel.
Here are the beasts from the first stage of our journey (from left to right): Akai, Yuan Shuo, Lao Zhu, Peter, Xiu Baobao, Lao Wang and his wife, Lao Chen, and Jeff.
A group of refugees arrived at the resort hotel in the evening.
I love hotels with animals
You can see them when you open the door
The hotel chef in a hotel with a long history knew that we were a team from China, and he said that he would cook dinner for us seriously, because no Chinese team had ever been to this hotel. During dinner, the foreigners in the restaurant were talking about where we came from, and some people even thought we were Korean or Japanese, so they came to our table to find out where we came from.
whale bone clock
D4. Headed to our first dive site in South Africa early in the morning, looking forward to what the seabed in Africa would look like.
I like this feeling, I like it very much.
This Zodiac just came back from the sea.
We all changed into wet clothes. This place is not as comfortable as diving in Southeast Asia. The little black there will take good care of you, but you have to do it yourself here.
It is best to install your own equipment.
Ready to go, ready to go to sea
The waves on the beach were really big, we rushed back and forth a few times before rushing out.
It rained the day before, and the visibility was not very high. I was numb to seeing these flakes of fish.
I saw a white tip shark swimming around. We were looking for a bull shark, which was looking for food.
D5. I saw a lot of speedboats surfing out to sea again and again at the beach, and I look forward to seeing bull sharks today.
Here, the tractor first pushes the speedboat down, and we push it into the water, and finally climb into the speedboat. Except for women.
Brother Yuan Shuo is pointing the country of South Africa.
This captain is really manly, especially when surfing.
My own BCD is a back-flying type, but here it is all jacket-type, and I am still a little unaccustomed to use it.
A Chinese once came to this area to dive and hung up one.
Queuing up to inflate two dives per day
Foreigner dive guides always look like they don’t know how to dive, but when we came up, we compared the tank with the dive guide and found that the remaining air pressure was similar to his. When he came up with 50P left, Lao Chen still had 120P.
(to be continued)
