VICTORIA FALLS

Victoria Falls one of the 7 natural wonders of the world. A magical place that I had a opportunity to spend 4 days ones again, I have been there 2 times before and now I went there to meet my husband, who is still riding the bicycle from Cairo to Cape Town. I flu from Johannesburg to Victoria Falls airport, the town also is called Victoria Falls in Zimbabwean side. Zimbabwe and Zambia are sharing the Vic Falls, the falls are actually part of the border line between these two countries.

When the plane is landing you can notice a cloud on the ground level and that indicates the falls from the air...Zambezi river is a large and long river with full of wild and bird life...

In the afternoon when the sun shines from the right angle to the misty cloud lifted up by the power of the water running down on the falls, you can see a rainbow, at least during an hour just under the bridge, it really

We only hear sad stories of Zimbabwe on the news... But I must say that Zimbabwean are very nice people and you feel safe to walk around in the town of Victoria Falls, I walked from the hotel to the border to the passport control, (you need visas for both countries paid in cash US dollars) and then crossed the border on the bridge to Zambia...

Lots of traffic crossed this bridge, people on foot, cars, trucks and trains... Goods for Zambia from South Africa and minerals from mines from Zambia...

This area has lots of history Dr Livingstone discovered the Victoria Falls and he met Stanley who has been searching  for Livingstone for many years... The town just few kms after the border in Zambia,  actually was named after Livingstone

At the border on the bridge you can do bungee jumping or just carry on walking on the other side and look at the side of the falls and then on the other side you can see the Zambezi river gorge...This guy is Peter, he is Zambian and we walked with me on the bridge trying to sell me some souvenirs, Mosi-oa-Tunya is the name that the native people of this region calls the Victoria Falls, it means "the smoke that thunders"...So this Peter off course had a brother who was a taxi driver and I needed to catch a taxi after getting my Zambian visa to go and meet my husband who was busy arriving just 3-4 kms away from the border post. I was told that the taxi will cost about 5 US$, but his brother told me that no, it will be 15 dollars, so I told him that he is trying to rip me off and went to see the two European looking guys who where at the passport control behind me. They were just busy getting in to their pick-up car and I asked if they could give me a lift, because this taxi was ripping me of, so I had a nice short lift with a native white Zimbabwean gentlemen and we manage to find the arrival of the Cairo to Cape Town Race...