The View From My Fishbowl

So…some more pictures.

The drive from Francistown to Victoria Falls took us several hours. The first leg to Nata was relatively smooth with traffic gradually getting less and less the further north we got. The road from Nata to the border was a little more interesting. 170+ kilometers of pure potholes with the occasional passing truck and…

elephants… Lots and lots of elephants…

Once we reached the border, we had to the leave the rental car and pile into our little four-door van. 10 people, 10 overnight bags, 15 liters of water, a few hundred pieces of literature, and 70 km to go!

At the border, a couple of the guys jumped out to walk across. We picked them up on the other side, and less than 5 km later, ran across these little fellas.

It was a pride of 7 or 8 lions, crossing the road one or two at a time. We sat and watched them, right outside our windows, for probably 15 minutes or so until another car pulled up behind us and they all ran into the bushes.

After driving all day, we reached the Falls about 30 minutes after they closed. We found a place to stay for the night (the guys stayed in tents and we got a little cabin) and found something to eat. Next morning, we went to see the Falls. The first white man to see Victoria Falls was David Livingstone. Can you even imagine?

We were, of course, viewing from the Zimbabwe side, which is (from what I understand) the better side to see the Falls from. If you come from the Zambia side, you can go in the Devil’s Pool, which is a sectioned-off area at the top of the Falls that you can ’swim’ in. We saw some people walking around that area from where we were standing across the canyon.

Some places were dry and some places were very wet…as if it was raining!

Some of us got closer to the edge than others…

The whole group…

For a few more pictures and some video clips (albeit a bit pixelated and shaky), go here.