Wednesday, March 9, 2011

Victoria Falls


Zambia has this thing of calling all its waterfalls national monuments however when it comes to Victoria Falls it is no overstatement. Victoria Falls in the wet season is an amazing sight - you can see the spray from the falls kilometres away.

Unfortunately our photos don't really do the falls justice - in addition to the huge amount of spray coming off the falls we also managed to get caught in a rainstorm  although it was hard to tell the difference at some points between what was rain and what was the falls.

With all the rain it meant that it wasn't possible to do any rafting (I was particularly disappointed given our last 2 rafting experiences resulted in a boat landing on my head and us getting stuck in the middle of a river with our raft caught under a weir) however it was pretty spectacular just walking around the falls.




Livingstone is an amazing place where you can do all sorts of cool things. This morning we spent walking with rhinos. We were fortunate enough to follow rhino tracks up a gully to come across 4 white rhinos and a baby(normally rhinos are pretty solitary animals so we were definately privledged).  Over the morning we ended up seeing the whole rhino population of the park.
Africa's wildlife is truely amazing - an annual pass to Australia Zoo is just not going to cut it when I get home!!

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