Date: Friday 1st August 2008Staying: Grubby's Grotto, Livingstone, Zambia
Song of the day: Storms in Africa - Enya
Victoria Falls is considered the 8th wonder of the natural world and we can see why. Today we joined up with a Dutch couple who would be on our trip (Joanne and Matt, anglesised from Joanneke and Matthijs) to go and have a look at the falls properly.
The Falls are on the Zambesi river, which is the border between Zimbabwe and Zambia, and situated about 9km's outside Livingstone, although you can see the spray for many miles around. The entry is crowded with stalls of many kinds that Laurie looked at and purchased things for me to carry for next few weeks. Once in the falls, the only sounds were those of the water crashing through its 108m fall. The falls are more than twice the height and almost twice the width of Niagra Falls. The spray is incredible and causes torrential downpours from clear blue skys, we got soaked. Luckily it was heading towards 40 degrees celcius so we dried in minutes. It is not possible to describe the falls in words, it is breath taking. I'll post a couple of photos at the top so you can see.
The night adventures were about to kick off as well. This was the birthday of one of the guys leaving the trip (from Whitby in Wellington), so to celebrate, everyone signed up for a Sunset 'Booze' Cruise on the Zambesi. The idea being we pay a fee and then all drinks are free on the boat. Bad idea!!! The trip was excellent, with Hippos, Crocodiles and Elephants swimming, but most people missed this as we managed to drink the boat dry. Along with locking people in the loos and an icing fight (from the birthday cake), events on the boat were as much fun.
After the cruise (3 hours long btw) we went to do some traditional African drumming. This truely was a debarcle. I don't think it is actually possible to get 40 very drunk people to follow instructions, let alone drum in time. What ensued involved improvised drum roles at every moment, drumming with various parts of the body and a few rugby tackles thrown in. All in al, it was a champion evening.
Victoria Falls is considered the 8th wonder of the natural world and we can see why. Today we joined up with a Dutch couple who would be on our trip (Joanne and Matt, anglesised from Joanneke and Matthijs) to go and have a look at the falls properly.
The Falls are on the Zambesi river, which is the border between Zimbabwe and Zambia, and situated about 9km's outside Livingstone, although you can see the spray for many miles around. The entry is crowded with stalls of many kinds that Laurie looked at and purchased things for me to carry for next few weeks. Once in the falls, the only sounds were those of the water crashing through its 108m fall. The falls are more than twice the height and almost twice the width of Niagra Falls. The spray is incredible and causes torrential downpours from clear blue skys, we got soaked. Luckily it was heading towards 40 degrees celcius so we dried in minutes. It is not possible to describe the falls in words, it is breath taking. I'll post a couple of photos at the top so you can see.
The night adventures were about to kick off as well. This was the birthday of one of the guys leaving the trip (from Whitby in Wellington), so to celebrate, everyone signed up for a Sunset 'Booze' Cruise on the Zambesi. The idea being we pay a fee and then all drinks are free on the boat. Bad idea!!! The trip was excellent, with Hippos, Crocodiles and Elephants swimming, but most people missed this as we managed to drink the boat dry. Along with locking people in the loos and an icing fight (from the birthday cake), events on the boat were as much fun.
After the cruise (3 hours long btw) we went to do some traditional African drumming. This truely was a debarcle. I don't think it is actually possible to get 40 very drunk people to follow instructions, let alone drum in time. What ensued involved improvised drum roles at every moment, drumming with various parts of the body and a few rugby tackles thrown in. All in al, it was a champion evening.
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