Global Food Tour

Chapter 245 The ugliness of human nature cannot be concealed even by the brilliance of diamonds!
While chatting, we arrived at the wildlife park, and several tour groups arrived at the same time.

"Wait a minute, I have to go make up your ticket." Xiao Xiao said.

"Me? Well, I forgot, please."

"It's okay, I'll get a discount if I go, hehe."

After a while, Xiao Xiao returned to the car, and the car slowly drove into the gate of the zoo.

This wildlife park covers an area of ​​500 square kilometers and is the fourth largest zoo in South Africa. Cars drive all the way in, but you are not allowed to get off the car on the way. You can stop and have a look. You can see rhinos, zebras, wildebeests, and jumping horses up close. There were antelopes, giraffes, baboons, etc., but no lions, elephants, or jaguars were seen, and everyone in the car felt a little regretful.

The animals are very leisurely and show no signs of fear of humans. Throughout South Africa, one can feel the harmonious coexistence between animals and humans.

Zhang Feng, who has hunting experience, always feels strange. On the way back, he visited the city of Pretoria for sightseeing. First, he went to the South African Diamond Center. Now that he is in South Africa, whether you want to buy it or not, you still have to look at diamonds. !

You can take photos at the place where diamonds are processed. Zhang Feng met a bald master who was very cooperative and even posed specially.

During the subsequent exchanges, Zhang Feng learned about the nearby diamond mine - the Cullinan Diamond Mine. He felt that the opportunity had come, but if he wanted to sneak in, he had to find someone to help him. However, he had no friends in South Africa. Try your luck first.

"The next stop is the Apartheid Museum in South Africa. Let me give you a brief introduction..." Xiao Xiao started to introduce in the car.

Zhang Feng originally planned to get off here, but found that the museum was not very far away, so he postponed his itinerary.

The South African Apartheid Museum, visitors begin to feel what apartheid is as soon as they enter the museum.Whites and non-whites have to enter the museum through two different entrances, and the first thing they see is the apartheid-era ID card.

白人的身份证上写着“南非公民”，而其他有色人种的身份证种族隔离博物馆上则注明“土著”、“马来西亚人”、“中国人”……博物馆将南非历史分为三部分：1910年至1948年的“南非联邦”时期；1948年至1994年全面推行种族隔离制度时期；1994年至今的新南非时期。

Zhang Feng can't imagine, this kind of thing is really unimaginable, the racial system in China, and only the Yuan Dynasty clearly implemented it, and the Qing Dynasty almost had that taste, but most of the time, it was ruled by the Han clan. The racial history is relatively peaceful.

After leaving the museum, I found that Man-de-La's head portrait at the entrance of the museum is three-dimensional, and he can only be seen clearly from a more positive angle. The design creativity is very good!
Mandela's famous saying: For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.
Freedom means not only being free from one's own shackles, but also living in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

"Xiao Xiao, thank you."

"Small things, and you pay well."

"Then I'm leaving." Zhang Feng said goodbye to everyone politely.

Xiao Xiao thought about it, and said: "We are scheduled to fly to Cape Town in the evening after three days. If you want to go together, wechat half a day in advance!"

"Okay, thanks."

I took a taxi, but I didn't have enough time today, so Zhang Feng went to the nearest hotel to the mine to stay.

Waking up the next day, Zhang Feng, who was in an exceptionally quiet mood, turned on the computer and wrote an essay:
I can't remember how many times this is the first time I wake up in a completely strange country, city, or room.However, it seems that it has been a long time since I slept so well.On the Nth night in South Africa, from 10:6 p.m. to 8:[-] a.m., I had a full [-] hours of long and wonderful sleep like a child, without waking up once or having a dream.This bed in the hotel seems to have some magical power.

I got up, washed, packed, feeling refreshed.After that, I went downstairs to have breakfast, and I could already smell the aroma of toasted bread before entering the restaurant.The breakfast is rich: bread, milk, coffee, eggs, sausage, fruit, everything.

I can't help feeling that we live in an era of abundant material.

When I entered the restaurant, I suddenly felt a trance, as if I had entered an unreal world, because a large black face was shaking in front of my eyes.Even though I saw many black people all day yesterday, they were walking on the street, they were setting up stalls on the side of the road, they were talking to each other... I watched them go about their daily life through the window of the car, but I didn't Such a strong feeling.

Perhaps subconsciously in my mind, black people don't show up in hotels to sit with us for a big breakfast.

Perhaps I am too accustomed to the image of them squatting in dirty neighborhoods and living in poverty... I feel extremely ashamed of myself for feeling like I am stuck in an era when slavery has not yet been abolished... I wonder if there will be a day when different people Prejudice, discrimination and inequality between species will eventually disappear.

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I hope that one day I can travel enough places to completely change the preconceptions in my mind...

At 8 o'clock in the morning, Zhang Feng went to the Cullinan Diamond Mine. He reported to a local one-day tour group, a group of six people. Zhang Feng was still trying to talk to the local tour guide about his trip to the mine, but he hadn't done so yet. progress.

This is destined to be another day of reflection on history.

The Cullinan Diamond Mine is located in a small town 50 kilometers from Pretoria.In my impression, South Africa and the African continent are full of gleaming gold, diamonds, and precious ivory.They are extremely beautiful, dazzling, but full of danger, often bringing disaster and misfortune, because human greed and cruelty have nothing to hide in front of them.

Perhaps the Westerners first came to this land just to open up a new sea route to the mysterious East. They traded with the aborigines and provided supplies for ocean voyages, which somewhat had the purity of a dreamer.

However, once gold and diamonds were discovered on the African continent, colonists came in droves to divide land, develop minerals, build cities, and wage wars. All behaviors have evolved into naked plunder.

The ugliness of human nature cannot be concealed even by the brilliance of diamonds.

The Cullinan Diamond Mine is still quite famous.The Cullinan Diamond, the largest natural rough diamond in the world so far, was produced here in 1905 and was discovered only 9 meters above the surface.

Later, this rough stone weighing 3106 carats was cut into nine large diamonds, named Cullinan I to IX, all owned by the British royal family.The two largest, Cullinan I (also known as the Great African Star), are adorned on the British Royal Scepter, while Cullinan II (also known as the Little African Star) is inlaid on the Queen's crown.

The big and small "African Stars" are held in the hands of the Queen of England and worn on her head, which is somewhat ironic today.

Today, the Cullinan Diamond Mine is still in operation. The current mining depth is 700 meters, and it is said that it can be mined to below 1000 meters.When visiting, you have to wear a hard hat on the construction site to prevent diamonds from hitting your head unexpectedly.

Zhang Feng and the others first watched the introduction video, then looked at the huge abandoned diamond mine from a distance, and finally looked at the replica of the Cullinan diamond in an exhibition hall, but they did not go down into the mine as imagined.

The diamond mine, which claims to be the largest in area in the world, looks particularly lonely and desolate, like a dry lake in a desert.

Things like diamonds are still very expensive even in the place of origin, but it is not the person who risked the risk of drilling hundreds of meters or even thousands of meters underground to discover and mine it, but the person who will ultimately profit. Nor would it be the wives and daughters of the diggers that it adorns its neck and fingers.

But Zhang Feng still looks forward to digging a diamond by himself, and then finally polish it by himself, and put it on the finger of the person he loves with his own hands.

(End of this chapter)