Victoria Falls is on the Zambezi River on the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe.
We viewed it from the Zambian side on Sunday. At the entry to the park is a monument to Dr. Livingstone.
It's a short walk to the edge of the gorge where we got our first look at part of the falls...
...and got evidence that we were there.
The mist from the falls brings entirely new meaning to the word 'mist' - it was a torrential downpour. We'd been warned that raincoats, which are available for rent, wouldn't keep us or especially our cameras dry so we rented a dry pack and put cameras and everything else in it. That was good advice - we got absolutely soaked but our stuff stayed dry.
If Ursula looks like she's soaked in this photo, it's because she is. The Zambia to Zimbabwe bridge in the background.
This photo tries to show the intensity of the mist falling and obscuring the Falls directly behind.
Getting a look at the entire falls was impossible - the mist made it impossible to see the complete falls, only bits at a time and perhaps for only a few fleeting seconds.
Afterwards, we walked up a short trail beside the river. The river was high and the current strong from recent rains. About 200 metres above the Falls was this calmer bay in which people enjoyed a swim. Can you imagine Parks Canada allowing people into the water that close to Niagara Falls?
We then went to the Zambesi Sun Hotel for lunch and found zebra wandering the grounds keeping the grass short.
They have a large baboon population to the point of being a menace, this one wondering how to climb a tree.
There was an immature albino that reminded us of the wormy guy in Lord of the Rings.
At sunset, we walked down to the bridge that connects Zambia and Zimbabwe. An entry visa for Canadians is 60 USD (anybody else is 20 USD - we don't know what Canada has done deserve that) so we didn't consider crossing; rather we satisfied ourselves with views of the Falls on the one side...
...and the gorge...
...and sunset on the other.
We splurged on Monday and took a helicopter trip into the gorge and over the Falls. We'll let the pictures speak for themselves. Look at the shear volume of water going over the Falls - the largest volume in the world. The bends in the gorge indicate previous locations of the Falls as the softer rock has been eroded over the eons.
We viewed it from the Zambian side on Sunday. At the entry to the park is a monument to Dr. Livingstone.
It's a short walk to the edge of the gorge where we got our first look at part of the falls...
...and got evidence that we were there.
The mist from the falls brings entirely new meaning to the word 'mist' - it was a torrential downpour. We'd been warned that raincoats, which are available for rent, wouldn't keep us or especially our cameras dry so we rented a dry pack and put cameras and everything else in it. That was good advice - we got absolutely soaked but our stuff stayed dry.
If Ursula looks like she's soaked in this photo, it's because she is. The Zambia to Zimbabwe bridge in the background.
This photo tries to show the intensity of the mist falling and obscuring the Falls directly behind.
Getting a look at the entire falls was impossible - the mist made it impossible to see the complete falls, only bits at a time and perhaps for only a few fleeting seconds.
Afterwards, we walked up a short trail beside the river. The river was high and the current strong from recent rains. About 200 metres above the Falls was this calmer bay in which people enjoyed a swim. Can you imagine Parks Canada allowing people into the water that close to Niagara Falls?
We then went to the Zambesi Sun Hotel for lunch and found zebra wandering the grounds keeping the grass short.
They have a large baboon population to the point of being a menace, this one wondering how to climb a tree.
There was an immature albino that reminded us of the wormy guy in Lord of the Rings.
At sunset, we walked down to the bridge that connects Zambia and Zimbabwe. An entry visa for Canadians is 60 USD (anybody else is 20 USD - we don't know what Canada has done deserve that) so we didn't consider crossing; rather we satisfied ourselves with views of the Falls on the one side...
...and the gorge...
...and sunset on the other.
We splurged on Monday and took a helicopter trip into the gorge and over the Falls. We'll let the pictures speak for themselves. Look at the shear volume of water going over the Falls - the largest volume in the world. The bends in the gorge indicate previous locations of the Falls as the softer rock has been eroded over the eons.
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