Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe

Victoria Falls – Zimbabwe

The falls were named after Queen Victoria, because an English man, Livingstone, was the first white person to “discover” the falls. There is also a world famous hotel here, the Victoria Falls Hotel. Many years ago, the royal family used to holiday here. They would fly to Durban, and then take a royal train right to the Victoria Hotel.

For Warren, the falls are somewhat of a trip highlight. To get the most out of it, he joined some of the other travellers to go on a helicopter flight over the falls. Rosi and I, we decided to go zip lining instead, over one of the side canyons across the Sambesi River.

He are some pictures Warren took on his flight:

While Warren was exploring by helicopter, my mom and I went gliding! To get to the gliding spot, we had to actually leave Zimbabwe, and walk into Zambia on the railway bridge connecting the two countries. We needed our passports, but as it was just for a tourist attraction, the formalities were not too terrible. But we went into Zambia!

Entering Zambia…..

Rosi getting suited up…..

Carine getting suited up….

Only a few more moments, and we are off.

Sorry guys, I couldn’t take pictures while gliding of a 800ft canyon, hope you forgive me!

Later on in the afternoon, after we recovered a bit from our morning adventures, we drove to the falls to explore them on foot. Along the way we saw our very first baobab tree. In german it’s called “Affenbrot Baum”.

When you walk along the trail by the falls, you feel the spray and it is beautifully cooling.

We were walking like zombies anyhow, the temps reached 43deg.Celcius, I have no idea how I actually managed. At night, it does cool off, but without a fan (which we went and bought!!!!) and AC in the RV, we would fry.

Here are some pictures of the falls when walking along the opposite edge of the canyon:

If you look hard, you can see a crazy local, fishing on the very edge of the main falls, just meters back from the edge. We could not believe our eyes!