Among the most beautiful journeys I would include the Republic of South Africa, although it is marked by apartheid and high prices. A country that was and still is being drained by the Dutch through their almost four-hundred-year-old East Indian Dutsch company is still full of diamonds, gold and countless black workers. The country embodies the racial and economic differences between people, and having everything or nothing is the only way of life here.
From the airport, where only Mercedes and Toyotas are parked, we drove to a well-guarded secret among African parks, where unlike the others there is no malaria and there are not many tourists. On the border with Botswana, at the edge of the Kalahari, Madikwe Park surprises, where in fresh early mornings and late red evenings, among baobabs and granite boulders, we shared the same views as our common ancestors, the first Eve… The Bushmen are said to be the same today as they once were; one can only wonder what they think of the mighty Toyota Land Cruisers and funny English hats. We got the Big Five (lion, leopard, buffalo, elephant, rhinoceros), as promised, and much more, much more beautiful, including the primordial quality of black smiles without a dollar background. It is difficult to find words, superlatives, that could give a proper and fair description of visiting this navel of civilisation.
The relatively short flight to Cape Town was quite exciting because of the mixing winds from the two oceans. If we subtracted the high crime rate caused by the reasons listed above, it would be one of the most beautiful cities in the world. I climbed Table Mountain, which gives the city its distinctive character, and looked towards Antarctica, which I already had in my pocket. The diamond market, a wonderful aquarium, cars of aristocratic brands, expensive venues with sunny terraces, the white-clad descendants of the owners of the land, diamonds on the bloodied fingers of European ladies and tourists far from home mark a city with the universal climate of eternal spring and an even more universal feudal order. Penguins on the beaches look towards the Southern Ocean, which whispers stories of the bravest who opened the way for Europeans into a world of endless opportunities to exploit human and earthly resources.
From the airport, where only Mercedes and Toyotas are parked, we drove to a well-guarded secret among African parks, where unlike the others there is no malaria and there are not many tourists. On the border with Botswana, at the edge of the Kalahari, Madikwe Park surprises, where in fresh early mornings and late red evenings, among baobabs and granite boulders, we shared the same views as our common ancestors, the first Eve… The Bushmen are said to be the same today as they once were; one can only wonder what they think of the mighty Toyota Land Cruisers and funny English hats. We got the Big Five (lion, leopard, buffalo, elephant, rhinoceros), as promised, and much more, much more beautiful, including the primordial quality of black smiles without a dollar background. It is difficult to find words, superlatives, that could give a proper and fair description of visiting this navel of civilisation.
The relatively short flight to Cape Town was quite exciting because of the mixing winds from the two oceans. If we subtracted the high crime rate caused by the reasons listed above, it would be one of the most beautiful cities in the world. I climbed Table Mountain, which gives the city its distinctive character, and looked towards Antarctica, which I already had in my pocket. The diamond market, a wonderful aquarium, cars of aristocratic brands, expensive venues with sunny terraces, the white-clad descendants of the owners of the land, diamonds on the bloodied fingers of European ladies and tourists far from home mark a city with the universal climate of eternal spring and an even more universal feudal order. Penguins on the beaches look towards the Southern Ocean, which whispers stories of the bravest who opened the way for Europeans into a world of endless opportunities to exploit human and earthly resources.
