After cruising along the Chobe River, looking out for spoonbills, ibises and carmine bee-eaters, you take an afternoon game drive through the park’s fertile floodplains. Or you could visit Chobe National Park, around an hour and a half’s drive away in Botswana, for a full-day safari. More wildlife can be seen on a game drive through Victoria Falls National Park, which is home to zebra, giraffe, buffalo, eland and impala. You might be joined in the water by elephant, hippo and crocodiles as the sinking sun casts a pink tinge over the river. After pausing for you to take sunset photographs of the falls, the train continues to a siding, where a five-course dinner is served on board.Īlternatively, you could take a sunset cruise along the Zambezi, sipping drinks while listening to your guide recount local myths and legends. The train takes you through Victoria Falls National Park and onto the Victoria Falls Bridge, built by British colonialist Cecil Rhodes in 1905.
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Lower water levels also give you a chance to go white-water rafting through the turbulent waters at the foot of the falls, navigating a series of class IV and V rapids with an experienced guide.Ī fine way to spend an evening here is having dinner aboard the Bushtracks Express, a restored 1920s steam train that runs along part of the ‘Cape to Cairo’ railway on Tuesdays and Fridays. While water levels vary throughout the year (travel between January and April to see the falls at their peak), even visiting during the driest periods still has its rewards as the cliff face is exposed and you can peer right down to the bottom of the gorge. You also stand a chance of seeing vervet monkeys and baboons among the vegetation, as well as black eagles and falcons circling overhead. The mist rising from the chasm has created a rainforest-like ecosystem, and as you walk among the dripping fig, palm and mahogany trees you can admire close-up views of the plunging water. There are lots of little paths you can follow that wind along the basalt clifftop adjacent to the falls, where you might see trumpeter hornbills darting across the gorge. The falls form the border between Zimbabwe and Zambia, but you’ll have a similar experience whichever side you visit. With a height of 108 m (354 ft) and a width of 1,708 m (5,604 ft), Victoria Falls takes the prize as the largest curtain of falling water on the planet. They’ll recommend ways to appreciate the falls fully, such as on a sunset steam train ride along Victoria Falls Bridge or soaring overhead aboard a helicopter to grasp the falls’ true scale. Our specialists visit the Zimbabwe side of the falls regularly to uncover the best things to see and do during your visit. Perry - of: Arvada Colorado - rising mist, the roaring noise, and the gaping abyss into which sheets of water cascade provide the spectacle and drama of a visit to Victoria Falls, aptly known as ‘Mosi-oa-Tunya’ (‘the smoke that thunders’) in the local language. = So much more can be said, and should have been said about the falls in this slide show article.
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Plus many other fine hotels in and a bit out side town including the highly rated 5 star: Victoria Falls Lodge. Also nearby is the Indabelly campground and basic cottages for rent. /////////////// There are three 4 an 5 star hotels in Victoria Falls right at the Falls, including the historic British colonial hotel: The Victoria Falls Hotel, (Built in 1904, one of Africa’s oldest hotels, and a must see attraction in it’s own right)and also The Kingdom Hotel and the llala Lodge. Search: Victoria Falls - rainbow - Devils pool - Perry King - on flicker to try to find it. ****** also was on the Zambia side once to visit the Devil’s pool. My third time, but my first during the HIGH FLOW season time, when the entire mile wide falls is completely covering the entire length with flowing water - with no gaps. I was at the falls, Zimbabwe side last week May 2 and 3rd 2016. Also the closest town to the falls from the Zambian side is Livingstone, which is about 2 to 3 miles away, requiring a taxi ride to the falls area.
You can walk across the bridge and pay the Visa fees coming and going to both countries to see the falls from both sides. There is a small part of the falls past the bridge in Zambia that you cant see from Zimbabwe.
The main reason to see (which you can hardly see anyway) the Falls from Zambia is if you want to jump into the “Devils Pool” at the top and edge of the falls during low flow season. The falls enterance is less than a 5 Minute walk from the nice small town of Victoria falls.
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