4. Resort town (please come, thank you)
The weather in South Africa during the rainy season is like the makeup of a girlfriend, which changes as soon as possible. The sky starts to rain soon after Nate who can dance.
Uncle Yang didn't want to be poured by the rain, and he was exhausted and hungry all day long, so he arranged for Nate to guard the tree of life and go to the town to shelter from the rain by himself.
The town is a distance from the Tree of Life. It is not large in scale, but it has a very elegant style. A flat road winds through the grassland and disappears at the end of the earth through the town.
Many houses have been built in an orderly manner in the town, almost all bungalows and villas and two-story buildings, with few buildings exceeding three-story buildings.
This is a architectural feature of South Africa. There are too many people in the land, so there is no need to build high-rise buildings.
After entering the town, he breathed a sigh of relief. This was still South Africa, not South America. There were national flags on the shops on both sides of the road and the South African flag.
He was about to find a convenience store to buy some food first, but suddenly a panel flashed in front of him. The tree spirit gave a new guide: [The young city lord is already hungry, so why not go to the 'Meimeida Fast Restaurant' and take a look. What will you get from there?]
Looking at this mission, Lord Yang smiled. Shu Ling is quite naughty. I guess? I guess it’s a big deal!
The Meimeida Express Restaurant is right at the entrance of the town’s road, and it is a two-story building. There are not many people traveling on heavy rainy days, and the fast food restaurant is deserted, with only a table of black young people gathering together to eat voraciously.
As he entered the door, a tall white girl walked over with a smile and asked, "Hello sir, what do you want to eat? I recommend you try the Sasa in our store. Our chef once went to Zimbabwe..."
"OK, Saza, let's go two Sazas."
"Uh, there are fried horns. This is cold food, which is the specialty of our store..."
"OK, fried horns, two fried horns."
"We also have big charcoal-grilled bats here..."
"OK, no, no, no, no, forget this."
The fastest fried horns is a fried triangle-like food. It originated from Santanyani and is a bit like a fried dumpling from China. However, it is wrapped in a triangle shape, and the filling must be cooked first, then wrapped in the dough crust and fryed until golden brown and then cooled for consumption.
One fried horn is as big as two dumplings, and one plate is as good as five fried horns, which are both fragrant and delicious.
At the moment of food, Uncle Yang couldn't hold on. He didn't care about his image, holding the horns with both hands and throwing them into his mouth like Rambo holding a bomb: "Bia chicken, bia chicken, bia chicken..."
A plate of swells was gone.
The other plate of explosives was gone.
Fortunately, the two large plates were delivered in time.
Sasa is a mainstream staple food in Africa. Different countries have different names. Sasa comes from Zimbabwe, and among all countries, Zimbabwe is the most particular practice.
It is made of corn flour. The corn flour is boiled with water and dried to make it into a paste. Put it directly on a plate and pour gravy and cover it with vegetables. As for how it looks?
Imagine by yourself.
However, Uncle Yang didn't care about these things. He got a plate and scattered it, then grinned and picked it up and pulled it in...
The manager of the fast food restaurant who came out later was stunned when he saw this scene. He murmured: "God knows that I don't lie. I, Richard Mason, have been around for many years and have seen big scenes, but I have never seen such scenes."
The manager was a kind-hearted person. Seeing that Yang Shubao was covered in mud and water, he felt compassionate when he was eating and drinking, and specially sent him a bowl of soup and said: "Free, man, drink it and get rid of the cold."
Uncle Yang was grateful. He put down the plate and briefly introduced himself, and started chatting with the manager.
Manager Mason smiled after learning about his nationality: "I understand, Mr. Yang, I know the purpose of your visit to the resort town. You are here to see the land in the reserve, right?"
Uncle Yang didn't know what he was talking about, so he said calmly: "How did you see it?"
Manager Mason shrugged and said, "This is too simple. You Chinese are rich and you like to buy houses and land the most. In fact, several groups of people have visited the land in the reserve before you, and your compatriots are inside."
Yang Shubao needed to understand the situation here, so he took out a hundred yuan rand and pushed it to Mason and said, "For the sake of the founding father and Blue Buffalo, tell me the local situation, including where this is, the land situation here, etc."
The main color of the new version of the 100-yuan rand is blue. It is printed with the South African founder Mandela on the front, and the back is the African big buffalo, one of the five African hegemons. Therefore, local people like to call it Blue buffalo.
It’s easy to do things with money.
Mason happily put away the bill and said, "As you wish, man, this is a resort town, very close to Heluhluwe. You look southeast and see there is a big lake there. Of course, you know, that is Lake St. Lucia..."
After hearing this, Yang Shubao understood where the protected area he had been talking about was, the Great Saint Lucia Wetland Park Reserve, the northeast corner of South Africa.
The Cape Plant Reserve where he was before happened to be in the southwest corner of South Africa, which means that the Tree of Life took him through the entire country in a few seconds!
The Tree of Life, the Cow, the Beast, the Vulture (Breaking the Sound)!
Unlike the Cape Plant Reserve, this reserve is a wetland park surrounded by the birth of Lake Saint Lucia. It has a complex terrain and rich species. It is located between sea level and mountains with an altitude of 500 meters. It consists of a coastal plain and continental shelf, with a total area of 240,000 hectares.
Because of its unusually large number of biological species and changes, this wetland park was included in a World Natural Heritage Site by UNESCO as early as 1999.
Mason continued to explain the local people's sentiment to him, and then talked about the land being sold in the reserve.
According to the previous national conditions of South Africa, the land in the protected area will not be sold to private individuals.
However, in the past two years, the South African government has been carrying out drastic land reforms, with part of the land being expropriated and put into the market, such as urban land for state-owned enterprises, informal settlements and surrounding land, private land in farms and part of protected areas.
Coincidentally, a piece of land was included in the expropriation and delivery plan on the edge of the Great Saint Lucia Wetland Park Reserve, with a total area of 404 hectares and a total value of 2 million rands.
According to the exchange rate, two million rand is about one million yuan, which is equivalent to a hectare of land selling for only 2,500 yuan. The price of a little more than 150 yuan is converted into a small amount of land!
Of course, South Africa has few people and the land price has always been relatively low. However, according to what Yang Shubao knows, the price of agricultural land in South Africa can be ten thousand rand per hectare. If it is urban land, the price will be expensive. Ten thousand square meters will require 500,000 rand.
The land price in the protected area is actually only half of the normal land price, which should be robbed.
But Mason then told him that although the quotation of this land was low, it was listed for several months but no one bought it. The reason is that the nature of the land is strictly required: the land in the protected area cannot be used for industrial and agricultural production, but can only be used for the development of the tertiary industry, such as the development of tourism, and the construction of private protected areas.
After hearing this, Yang Shubao understood the reason why Shuling asked him to come to this shop for dinner.
This land was prepared for him, and he could buy the tree to protect life.
While the two were talking, three black young men who were originally eating voraciously in the fast food restaurant stopped eating and stared at them together.
Yang Shubao knew about the danger in the South African countryside. After discovering the abnormality, he prepared to check out and leave.
But at this moment, a strong black young man pushed away the plate in front of him and walked over.
Uncle Yang began to activate his wrists and ankles.
Chapter completed!