Chapter 1128 Mengmeng
After falling from the mountain, about two hours passed, Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo arrived at Namanga, a small town on the border of Kentan. The town is not big, but it is very lively, and there are many large trucks rest here.
Although Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo's Safa day trips are borne by Kiboslope Company, after entering Tanzania, you need to change your car and driver. You can apply for a visa on arrival directly at the border, which costs 50 US dollars per person, and it is very fast and can be completed in 10 minutes. When applying for the visa, the owner Yunluo suddenly felt dizzy and wanted to vomit.
The temperature outside that day was over 30 degrees, and I stayed in the car for a long time, so I guess I had heatstroke. Yun Luo lay on the bench in the visa hall for a while, took some human pills and touched some cooling oil. After 20 minutes, it was obviously much better, so it is recommended that you bring more anti-heat medicine.
While lying down and resting, Jamal also came over to visit Yunluo and told Yunluo to drink more water and rest more, which moved Yunluo Xiao. He was about to part with him. Yunluo and Nalan Shuqi were very reluctant to leave this serious and responsible work. Safari had a rich middle-aged man who left each other's mailing addresses and then parted.
The driver who accepted Lan Shuqi and Yunluo was a young man. He looked stupid and didn't talk much. To be honest, he was a little disappointed at that time.
Because most of the itineraries of Nalan Shuqi and Yunluo Safa are in Tanzania, and according to everyone's previous experience, the service quality of drivers in Tanzania is not as high as that of Kenya. Especially Nalan Shuqi and Yunluo met someone as good as Jamal, Yunluo was worried that the gap in Tanzania would be too big.
It takes about an hour and a half from the border to Arusha. The road conditions are very good. When Nalan Shuqi and Yunluo were on the road, they realized that the driver who accepted Lan Shuqi and Yunluo was not the driver who took Nalan Shuqi and Yunluo safari in the next few days. He was only responsible for accepting Lan Shuqi and Yunluo to Arusha.
At around 5 pm, Nalan Seqi and Yunluo successfully arrived in Tanzania's third largest city Arusha. Although it is the third largest city, it is similar to the average county town in China in terms of scale. The city is basically full of bungalows, and the whole city looks very quiet and people's pace of life is also very slow.
Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo first exchanged foreign exchange rates, with a exchange rate of 1:1610. Then they found a telecommunications business hall to apply for a phone card. The phone card was 5,000 shillings, and charged 20,000 shillings to apply for a 500 mega traffic package. The local area is 3g network, and the Internet speed is quite fast.
The place where Nalan Shuqi and Yunluo live is called impalahotel, which is a relatively large international hotel. This hotel basically receives foreigners, a bit like the foreign-related hotels in China that specialize in receiving foreign guests decades ago. The hardware of the hotel is average, the house is a bit old, but the rooms are large and the hot water is very good.
After Nalan Shuqi and Yunluo settled down to stay, they saw that it was still dawn, so they planned to go shopping on the street. In view of safety reasons, Nalan Shuqi and Yunluo didn't bring anything when they went out, so they brought some change and a card machine.
After walking on the street for half an hour, it became darker, and Nalan Shuqi and Yunluo returned to the hotel. On the way back, I met two young men who took the initiative to greet Nalan Shuqi and Yunluo.
I also enthusiastically introduced Ziyunluo, very friendly. On the same day, I met a 40-person Chinese team in the hotel. At that time, the restaurant was full of Chinese people, and it seemed that I had returned to China at that moment.
At eight o'clock in the morning, I met with Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo's new driver Benson at the entrance of the hotel. Benson is a 30-year-old man who looks very energetic and good at talking. The first impression is very good, and the previous concerns disappear and disappear. It takes about three hours from Arusha to Ngoro.
The road conditions are not very good, and the road that is being built is making the road that is not easy to walk on is even more bumpy and is filled with dust. However, the new road will be repaired soon, and it will be much more comfortable for everyone to go to Ngoro again.
At around 11 o'clock in the afternoon, Nalan Shuqi and Yunluo arrived at the gate of the Ngorongoro Reserve. There were not many people. There were monkeys wandering around at the door from time to time.
The driver explained to Nalan Shuqi and Yunluo the origin of the name of the Ngorongoro Reserve: The English name of Ngorongoro is ngrongoro, and it is almost gelonggelong. Because there have always been Maasai living in this area, their cows will have bells around their necks and make the sound of gelonggelong when they walk, so they get their name.
Today's itinerary is mainly to go to the crater of Ngoro. The crater is fertile for many years. The animals do not need to migrate, so animals are concentrated in this area and are more likely to find beasts like lions. More importantly, the scenery here is as beautiful as a fairyland.
At the beginning, I saw a few pictures of the early morning crater taken by others and was deeply poisoned. I was determined to live in the crater ildlifelodge, and the room there could overlook the entire crater, which was quite magnificent! But in the end, I had to give up my love when considering the budget. (However, many friends in the past reported that there was not cost-effectiveness there).
Attached are a few photos taken by myself, but they show less than one-tenth of the real beauty. Let's take a look.
There are indeed many animals in the crater, and here Nalan Shuqi and Yunluo finally saw the lion! Unfortunately, these guys are sleeping lazily, not even raising their heads, which is really unpretentious. Finally, when I look at the animal world, I realized that lions are resting for more than 20 hours a day. It seems that their state is normal.
I didn’t go to Nakuru to see flamingos. I didn’t expect there were so many craters, but they were too far away. The flocks of flamingos are really spectacular! Benson explained to Yunluo that the reason why flamingos are red is because they are influenced by the food they eat. If the flamingos are placed in China, they are white, which is so magical!
It should be reminded that you need to buy a separate ticket to enter the crater. A car costs 200 US dollars, and the time is 6 hours, so everyone must control the time. Make sure to use enough but don’t exceed the time, otherwise you will have to pay another US$200! Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo entered around 12 o’clock that day.
I started to rush to the hotel until almost five o'clock in the afternoon. The driver was so wild along the way that he rushed to the crater gate at about five o'clock. Benson said: wearesafe!
At night, Nalan Shuqi and Yunluo lived in rhinolodge not far from the crater. This hotel cannot see the crater, it is not large in area, but it is quite cost-effective. It is very warm. This hotel is open-ended, without a fence protection net, etc. The balcony of the room where Nalan Shuqi and Yunluo lives is directly connected to the outside. Isn’t it very exciting?
The big bird at the entrance of the hotel was seen many times in the Serengeti, but I forgot my name.
The restaurant is particularly recommended, which is very beautiful and the food is delicious. There is a soup, green and I don’t remember the name. It is very delicious. Yunluo drank several bowls. This is also the only place to eat with the driver during the day of Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo. In the evening, Nalan Shiqi and Yunluo talked a lot with Benson.
There are many aspects of the politics, culture, education, customs and habits of the two countries. Benson was a Marseille. His father was very rich. He married nine Nalan Shiqi and sold cattle for him to go to college. Now he works, and he buys cattle for his family. Benson is also a man who is worried about the country and the people. Because the Maasai people are not allowed to hunt and farm in the reserve.
So their only source of income is the expenses given by tourists to visit their villages. But for places far away from the highway and tourists do not go, some Maasai people will starve to death, and their eyes are filled with tears when they speak.
He also talked about the politics of their country. He felt that the country is very powerful now. The president ignored the lives and death of the people and just made money for himself. Many people hoped to promote political reform through war. Only after this Yun Luo knew that Tanzania had never fought a war since its founding.
Speaking of this, there is a particularly interesting history. In the 1960s, the national liberation movement was launched in the entire Africa. Tanzania was a British colony at that time, and their founding leader Nerrell led everyone to independence. But their independent method was very peaceful. In the original words of Benson, it was.
At that time, Nyrell ran to the queen and said she wanted independence. When Elizabeth saw that the situation could not be stopped, she asked: "Can you feed your people?" Nyrell said very firmly that yes, so the UK signed an agreement to agree to Tanzania's independence. After a while, the Tanzanian government found that it could not handle it, so she asked the Chinese country at that time for help.
China selflessly helped them a lot of food. Yun Luo told Benson that China was actually very poor at that time and could not even eat enough, but she still saved money to support the African brothers! Finally, Nalan Shiqi and Yun Luo jointly wished China-Africa relations a long history!
During this period, Benson asked Yun Luo how many people were in China, and Yun Luo told him that it was nearly 1.4 billion. The young man's expression collapsed at that time and asked Yun Luo three times, "Are you sure you were right?" He could not imagine what this number meant. The entire Tanzania population was only about 40 million.
Speaking of this, Yunluo quickly followed the issue of war he mentioned just now, saying that peace is better. The Chinese have experienced many wars, and the war is very cruel. During World War II alone, the Japanese killed 37 million Chinese.
(Yun Luo deliberately wanted to say this paragraph, so that the people of the world also knew that the little Japanese were not very polite as they saw, and they were all beasts in their bones!) Benson was shocked after hearing this. This number was quite far from slaughtering their country.
The room was a little cold at night. There was a Western-style fireplace in the room. If necessary, the waiter could ask the fireplace to light it. It was burning large pieces of wood. I originally planned to light it, but I felt it was not safe. It would be bad if I had carbon monoxide poisoning hanging it in Africa. However, the blankets in the hotel are quite thick and I slept more peacefully at night.
Today's itinerary is to go to Ngoro's ndutu, which is the junction of Ngoro and Serengeti. In February and March, a large number of animals are concentrated here, especially wildebeests, which will run to this place to give birth to the next wildebeest. Benson said that when wildebeests are about to give birth, they can hold it in for up to two weeks without giving birth.
Until they arrived at Ndutu (it was really hard to hold back). When they first arrived at Ndutu, they met several Marseille boys wearing black clothes and smearing their faces. The driver said that this was a ceremony for Marseille men to become adults.
When they are about to become adults, they will dress up like this, and after three months they will become adults, they can marry and work, etc. These three teenagers are three brothers. Yun Luo and they have a pair of Zhang Ying and pay each one dollar as a tip.
When we arrived at Ndutu, Nalan Shuqi and Yunluo discovered that they didn't dare to call out many animals they saw in the past few days. There were quite a lot of them here! There were wildebeests, gazelle and zebra everywhere. Moreover, the cars here were basically driving inside the grassland and were closer to the animals.
Deep in Ndutu is a low forest, where the clouds feel the most enjoyable place. Cars are shuttled through the forest, and low acacia trees are everywhere, and animals are running around you, which is completely different from being on the endless grassland.
Just when Nalan Shuqi and Yunluo were on a tree next to Nalan Shuqi and Yunluo, they were surprised to find that there was a wildebeest who had just died in a short time. This should be the trophy hunted by the jaguar not long ago. If Nalan Shuqi and Yunluo were not in a hurry, Nalan Shuqi and Yunluo could have hid and waited for the jaguar to come back.
Sure enough, when Nalan Shuqi and Yunluo returned home again, the little wildebeest disappeared. Although Nalan Shuqi and Yunluo saw jaguars in the Serengeti after Nalan Shuqi, they were all very far away. Nalan Shuqi was very regretful that she did not stick to this time.
The place for lunch is in ndutulodge. Although it is not next to the lake, you can see the lake shore from afar in the restaurant and see the scenery. Here, Yunluo finally understood why the lakemask tent hotel is so expensive by the lake.
Chapter completed!