Modern boats take tourists about 7km from the mainland in the Aliwal Shoal (PV Dinh Luong at the far right). South Africa in particular and Africa in general attracts tourists with its pristine beauty, mystical indigenous culture and with 5 large species of “Big Five” including African elephants, Cape buffalo, leopard, lion and Rhino. But there is a different South Africa from the trips adventure travel Swim with sharks at Aliwal Shoal Marine Life Reserve, Umkomaas Town, KwaZulu-Natal Province, South Africa, about 50km south of the provincial capital Durban. Here’s your chance to meet these amazing creatures face-to-face throughout your life, a new adventure experience that challenges logical thinking and does what you never thought you’d ever do – in the water surrounded by sharks. Wondering if you can’t swim, can’t swim well, or are afraid of risking your life? All you need is an adventurous, adventurous and challenging spirit as the tour organizers will offer you a variety of options – from near absolute safety to the ultimate test of willpower. . You can simply drop yourself inside a stainless steel cage approved by the Maritime Safety Authority of South Africa (SamA) with a safety mask, choosing from different degrees of shallow depth when standing in the cage according to your preference. . But prepare for adrenaline rush with a more adventurous and memorable option. Many different options when diving with sharks. (Photo: Dinh Luong / Vietnam +) We came to Aliwal Dive Center because it is a diving center with sharks with more than 28 years of experience. Answering my concerns and worries when considering bringing both my wife and two children to the shark experience diving tour – guide and diving expert with the shark Danie Bester said he has more than 4 years in job and no mistakes have occurred. Aliwal Dive Center is part of an effort to conserve marine life, including sharks in the Indian Ocean, around the coastal city of Durban. Leaving previous jobs in Pretoria and Johannesburg, Danie chose to guide diving with sharks, because he could do what he loved and wanted to contribute to changing the animal’s perception. After helping with the selection of swimsuits, propellers and waterproof masks, Danie carefully told us to keep our arms closed under our armpits, use the propeller to swim softly, avoiding the shark’s mistaken hands other small fish species for food and attack. Strictly complying with the requirements for medical reporting during the COVID-19 pandemic season, my family of 4 and my friend Lina, 17, a South African citizen of Indian origin join a shark diving tour. . Lina’s parents pleased their daughter but still worriedly sent off to the beach and waited. Surf safely on custom 8m Superduck Semi Rigid boats equipped with a Yamaha Four Stroke 2×100 HP engine, to the area south of Aliwal Shoal, where skilled guides say there’s plenty of fish fat. The modern motor boat takes the group about 7km from the shore, the water depth is 20-30m. Sharks head to the ocean from many directions. (Photo: Dinh Luong / Vietnam +) We are fortunate to have a beautiful International Labor Day, the sea is relatively calm, the water is clear, the sunlight helps the view to the sea floor. In the breeding season from July to November each year, sharks often gather in high density in this sea. Captain Keith Rousouw with 25 years of experience instructing diving with sharks directly steered the boat. He said a support group of four divers on another boat helped us attract sharks, using food from small marine fish that was prepared and strictly followed the Ministry of Environment’s Shark Diving license. South Africa. The stainless steel cage floats on the water thanks to two buoys. The cage designed and perfected by an engineer can accommodate 8 people at a time, providing a relatively comfortable space for 4 visitors on this discovery tour. You might be wondering with the number 4? I chose to swim with Danie right from the beginning after consulting with these two skilled experts. Danie let me hang on a floating wooden stake thanks to two large floats, attached to the iron cage, for a wider view and better experience. You can feel my worries more clearly when you have seen the shark videos. The Oceanic Blacktip is 1.5-2m long, stout body with pointed snout, long gill slits and no burrs between dorsal fins. This species reached a maximum known length of 2.8m and a maximum weight of 123kg. Most individuals have a black head or edge on pectoral, dorsal, ventral, and caudal fins. Danie was in the water directly with us and Keith watched carefully from the boat. Expert Danie in turn helps team members cling to the wooden stake and swim with each person closer to the sharks. The experience of diving and being up close with the sharks affirms Danie’s love and understanding for this fish – calm and flexible. Between the time diving and underwater observations, I rose to the surface to breathe but many times saw the tall and crescent-shaped front dorsal fins of the ocean blackhead sharks moving around in the afternoon. It is about 1.5m long and weighs about 50-70kg, according to Danie. The blackhead shark is an agile and energetic carnivore. Oceanic Blacktip can jump out of the water while attacking small schools of fish. Their demeanor has been described as “timid” compared to other great globular sharks (family Carcharhinus), which are common in coastal tropical and subtropical seas around the world, including lips. brackish water habitat. We assessed that we had met about 25-30 marine blackhead sharks during the trip, but Danie said there were about 17 (perhaps due to anxiety, so amateurs “look nationalized chickens”). Many times while swimming next to Danie gets closer to the sharks, it feels as if they are rushing towards you, but with a graceful turn. Although I have had very close experiences with these ferocious animals, to a certain extent, I have to admit that they seem to be very friendly. And to be very restrained, we do not reach out to touch the flexible swim bodies very close – which expert Danie always warns to absolutely comply. Not only having a diving experience with sharks, the trip brings an understanding of other creatures living in shallow waters below 40m and small, symbiotic fish always “side by side” with the sharks. Another plus point is that you will experience surfing on a modern boat controlled by skilled captains. Goodbye, Ms. Basie Aukermann, Director of Aliwal Dive Center, said that the Center has actively and silently contributed to the conservation of marine life at Aliwal Shoal Protected Area and is delighted to have tourists from Vietnam. The distant south has come and experienced. Nature has its own ways of functioning, and South Africa is not just famous for the Big Five on land. The land of great experiences to challenge the will and adventure, to explore. Expert Danie Bester (left) supports journalist Dinh Luong on adventure travel. (Photo: Dinh Luong / Vietnam +)

Hanoi’s collective quarters began to be built around 1957 of the last century (Collective A12 Khuong Thuong, 2018, painting by architect Pham Thanh Son) Each housing model has its advantages and disadvantages. On a more distant occasion, according to the writer of this article, the collective quarters of Hanoi began to be built around the 1950s of the last century. At that time, it was not only the residence of many families of cadres and civil servants, but also a great dream of many Hanoi people. Housing is always an urgent issue in big cities in the face of increasing demand from people to have a place to settle down. Many ideas and models of condominiums with many segments, depending on the income level of the people. Today’s apartments have many names, pure Vietnamese also have, some Westerners also have, but people are sometimes classified by just concepts: “Commercial apartment” and “Social apartment”. The more luxury an apartment is, the more the investor always tries to build around it a relatively complete ecosystem. That is also the criterion for many people to decide when to spend money to buy an apartment. But Hanoi also has many condominiums called “lonely apartments”. Loneliness is because only the building grows up, but there are no services or utilities around. There are also apartments that residents wittyly describe in humorous ways such as: Fixed location, harmonious yin and yang, peaceful neighbors … – That’s the way only apartments are built on the foundation. of old cemeteries or when looking out to the balcony is seen directly below the tomb stretching ahead. Collective E5B Trung Tu (Painting by architect Nguyen Hoang Lam) When in an apartment, the owner, although the owner of the house, is still governed by a community with its own principles. For example, if you want to put a drill on the wall of your house, you also have to ask for permission from the building management board, or to transport large and heavy things, you must also ask for a paper to show. There are also long-term relationships with neighboring residents. Someone said, the higher the apartment building, the more distant the relationship between residents in your building. In social condominiums, where residents are mainly low-income people, from many different localities, the structural community relationship becomes stronger. There or there are “hallway parties” all night long, thus increasing the connection between the apartments. Small residents in the same corridor sometimes act as “goodwill ambassadors”, serving as a bridge for fathers and mothers of families to bond together. “The apartment building is like a miniature society in which there are many classes of society with different jobs, occupations, and personalities. People were engaging in social relationships with people on the same floor and court almost every step of the way. Therefore, if reconciled, it becomes attached. If there is conflict, it is difficult to balance it ”. Journalist Ho Viet Thinh If comparing in many correlations, housing also has advantages that an apartment cannot have. In worrying about food safety and hygiene, homeowners can turn their rooftop into a place to raise chickens and grow clean vegetables to improve their meals. They can also decide to interfere with the structure of the house they are in without having to ask anyone for permission. Therefore, an apartment sometimes makes people think of it as an inn that one can own but is not authorized to decide in many respects. There is a story that a rural child went to the city to be told by his parents to his uncle’s whereabouts. The boy who looked at the large and beautiful apartment thought that the whole building belonged to his uncle, until he was engrossed in discovering that he realized where he lived was only a small corner of a large cube. Some of the funnier people in that situation happily said: All of these courts belong to me, but I didn’t live all the time so I left them for rent. Condominiums solve the urgent problems of big cities today in the face of the increasing demand of people when they want to have a place to settle down. The apartment building is like a miniature society in which there are many classes of society with different jobs, occupations, and personalities. People were involved in social relationships with people on the same floor and court almost every step of the way. Therefore, if reconciled, it becomes attached. If there is conflict, it is difficult to balance it. Like where I live, there are people who always want the building security guard to have absolute control over the strangers. Journalist Ho Viet Thinh They suggest, if the guest of a house, the host must go down to the hall to pick up, doing so both to ensure security and show hospitality. Another person reacts, if applying this principle, the host invites about 5 guests to come to play, each of them comes in a different time frame, the homeowner will be thousands of hard times. Other people are additional witty, it is best to go in groups. When the quantity is enough, call the landlord down to pick up once for convenience. Each person has their own reason, their own personality and needs to be reconciled.