start from the secondary school history textbooks to Tanzania-Zambia railway as the total Sino-African friendship. This 1860 km-long railway, such as legendary stayed with my mind, and that this is a kind of railway, why it is the African people known as the" free rail" ? Why it is considered to be 60 years of New China, reflected in the course of China-Africa friendship is an important milestone? With all these questions, we have a pedestrian visited the Tanzania-Zambia Railway and spent three days and two nights on the train.
Tanzanian capital Dar es Salaam, Kula Sydney train station
Tanzania" China's railway station"
Dar es Salaam in April, although the rainy season, but still hot hot. Busy traffic coupled with hot and humid weather, the people of tightness, we have no intention here to revel in the beauty, just want to get back on that year-round spring Zambian capital Lusaka.
Tanzania-Zambia Railway from here, starting point is the Kula Sydney train station in Dar es Salaam. Tanzania's capital Dar es Salaam is also the country's largest city and port, the only official language in Tanzania in Swahili means" harbor of peace." Zheng He of Ming Dynasty China when it visited this neighborhood.
written on our tickets waiting time is 12:30, about 10 o'clock we entered the station's waiting room. See Kula Sydney train station, we are very friendly, so it was built with Chinese characteristics, came here a false impression, as back as in China.
Kula Sydney train station clean and tidy but structured, everything is organized. Station two storeys, a layer is mainly used for purchase and shipment of goods. In the ticket window next to the bulletin board, specify in detail the Tanzania-Zambia railway to go through 53 of the station name and first-class seat, second seat and general seat for the specific price. Tickets must be purchased for one week in advance, so the ticket window did not Paiqichanglong before, only the information desk in front of a few scattered black friends busy.
floor for waiting, there is a direct pass up the lane for passenger luggage more great convenience. When we arrived here, some passengers are busy in handling cargo baggage. However, the large clean room, or beyond our expectations, it is difficult to imagine such a clean train station has been in operation for 35 years now. In the center of the wall, hung a Chinese writing by the Tanzania-Zambia railway line aerial view clearly demonstrated to us that the railway passes through the high mountains and deep valleys, lakes, forest and grassland and marshes. Opposite the site across the board in two columns map the surface of an old friend of Chinese people hanging, former Tanzanian President Nyerere and Zambia's former president Kenneth Kaunda's portrait. Tanzania, Zambia, China, the three beautiful country, this moment was so epic by a railway link together.
out of the station building," the 25th anniversary of the Tanzania-Zambia railway operations monuments" suddenly jumped into the eyes. This is a unique monument, built in July 19, 2001, it is designed to be placed in the base of a locomotive on a track in the train car was clearly written in Chinese," The East is Red" and" Republic of China Locomotive & Rolling Stock Plant in 1973, the Quartet made" message. Simple and plain, with a deep history of the 70s of last century charm.
station ticket staff have begun, and we quickly ran trot. Before coming to Africa is always heard when the Tanzania-Zambia Railway operators will be very bleak, but our eyes are" spring" as the lively scene.
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