Beyond the downtown high-rises, UB often feels like a frontier town run amok, strewn lengthwise along a river valley like gravel left behind by a flash flood.
It is nestled in a river valley between two mountains, and electric-green rice fields line the roads radiating from it.
它建立在两座大山间的河谷中,绿油油的稻田镶嵌在公路两旁,向四面延伸。
According to Frank Eckhardt of the University of Cape Town, the presence of any water in the river valley had become unusual by 2010, and some observers thought the Boteti was a dead river.