In our general impression, Africa is very hot almost all the year round. I didn't expect that Africa has become a tourist resort recently. What's the matter? It's so hot on the mainland that many netizens jokingly call "simply go to Africa for summer vacation".
It's not a joke, because the seasons in the northern and southern hemispheres are the opposite. At present, Africa is the coolest season of the year. Kenya, South Africa and Mauritius have become the favorite 'summer resort' of land tourists, with three times the number of people in the same period last year.
According to the information provided by the mainland tourism website mother donkey on August 7, Africa has become one of the most popular 'summer resort' destinations for outbound tourists this year, Taiwan's China time e-news reported on August 9. In Africa, the most popular are Mauritius, Kenya, Morocco, South Africa and Tunisia. The price of tourism is about the same as last year, mostly between 10000 yuan and 20000 yuan. The number of travel days is more than 8 days. The first ten days of this month will be the peak of summer vacation travel. Shanghai, Chengdu, Beijing, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Kunming, Xi'an, Nanjing, Wuhan and Wuxi are the ten trips to Africa A popular source of tourists.
According to the statistics of the world tourism organization, in 2008, the number of land tourists to Africa accounted for only 3% of the total number of overseas tourists on the mainland. In 2016, it rose to 10%, reaching 11.3 million, and it is still growing at a rapid rate of 50% every year.
According to African media reports, due to the relaxation of visa conditions and the opening of direct flights and other reasons, the number of tourists to Ethiopia, Kenya and South Africa increased significantly in 2016. The main purpose of traveling to Africa includes celebrating marriage, graduation, birthday or festival in Africa, and feeling different foreign customs and cultures. In particular, the purchasing power of land tourists is 40% higher than that of European tourists. For African tourism, land tourists are 'cakes falling from the sky'.
Is Africa really not as hot as China?
Africa is crossed by the equator and there is a Sahara desert. It must be hot. But this heat is not the heat of the whole continent, not the average heat, but the heat with emphasis, very unbalanced heat. The truth is, except for the Sahara desert, Africa's main residential areas are cooler than China's summer. More than half of Africa is not hot. Most cities and settlements are in livable areas with good climate, cool and pleasant.
Only the Sahara region around July is the region with an average temperature of more than 30 degrees in Africa. The average temperature in the hottest time of the year in other regions is lower than that in Shanghai. The average temperature in July 2016 in Shanghai was 30.6 degrees, of which the average maximum temperature was 34 degrees. But Africa's hottest sub Saharan desert is largely uninhabited.
What's the highest temperature in Africa?
The Sahara desert in Africa has a maximum temperature of 50 degrees. Many people always think that the equator is the hottest place on earth, because the sun in the equatorial area is high in the sky all year round. In fact, the hottest place is not at the equator. Check the world meteorological records. In Asia, Africa, Australia and the deserts far away from the equator in North and South America, the temperature in the daytime is much hotter than that in the equator! The record of the highest temperature on the equator rarely exceeds 35 ℃, while in the Sahara desert in Africa, the highest temperature in the daytime can reach more than 50 ℃, usually above 40 ℃.