Xu Jinglei in Cape Town(都放这里了,有图,15楼有新的)

alicia

http://www.danwei.org/china_and_africa/xu_jinglei_at_green_market.php

Maya Alexandri is currently traveling as part of actress / director / blogger Xu Jinglei’s entourage in South Africa, and will file reports about the trip for the next week.

A multi-ethnic city, Cape Town has long been home to dislocated populations. Some of the populations come to Cape Town voluntarily, seeking economic opportunity. Historically, the Portuguese, Dutch and British sought their fortunes in Cape Town. More recently, Cape Town has attracted "economic refugees" from other African countries. This morning, at Green Market Square — an outdoor market with stalls selling African jewelry and souvenirs, like ostrich eggs and springbok hides — Xu Jinglei and her team haggled with traders hailing from all over Africa.

By contrast, some of the populations had no choice in their move to Cape Town. By noon, Xu Jinglei's team was shooting photos and footage in Bokaap. An historic neighborhood of brightly-painted houses, Bokaap had been home to slaves who the Dutch had imported from India, Sri Lanka, and Indonesia in the eighteenth century, and who'd subsequently been freed. Called "Cape Malay," this population was part of the larger mixed-race group in Cape Town known as "coloreds."

Still other populations seem to have stumbled into Cape Town by accident. In the afternoon, the team gawked at penguins, waddling, nesting, feeding and swimming at Boulder Beach. These polar birds had not merely settled in Africa, but had selected the Indian Ocean side (that is, the warmer side) of Cape Point, despite the presence of significantly colder water on the nearby Atlantic Ocean side.

The confluence of voluntary, forced and accidental migration imparts a richness and variety to Cape Town that prompted Xu to observe that getting to know the city required a longer stay.
Ismail, a colored resident in Bokaap whose family has lived in the neighborhood for 300 years, went further: "Cape Town is where civilization below the Sahara started." Your correspondent hazarded that Cape Town seemed to be the birthplace of "melting pot" multi-culturalism. "That, too," Ismail agreed.

Below are some photos of Xu from the last few days:
Xu Jinglei at Green Market Square, Cape Town


Xu Jinglei and sunflowers


In Soweto


Pensive at O.R. Tambo Airport


Xu Jinglei wearing a Nan Fei hat

寒暑

开发非洲去BOBO3

菲靡靡之音

经典的贴子,冒水一下.不看英语,就看图

歆石头

真漂亮　我最爱向日葵了

之沐

赶紧出写真吧

雷小涛

哈哈,虽然我很瘦,但是很怕热,去南非,太恐怖了.
介绍南非,我想应该少不了介绍一下那的金矿.

静静开放的花蕾

原帖由 寒暑 于 2008-4-3 20:29 发表
太美了，就是鹰文太小了Monkey5

有同感

﹎¨瑩、℡

希望有更多更新~！

耳朵养小鱼

好漂亮啊
写真什么时候出呢？

蓝云依风

原帖由 馨蕾 于 2008-4-2 18:16 发表

彼此彼此，嘿嘿

彼此彼此彼此,嘻嘻

luo

哈哈，可笑的老徐。

寒暑

^_^先讲好了，这里现预定一册老徐非洲游画册，哈Monkey6 Monkey2

寒暑

那张双脚离地的是谁呀Monkey7

寒暑

太美了，就是鹰文太小了Monkey5

老徐最可爱

啥也没看懂！