Zambia...The Allure of Victoria Falls

We're in Livingstone town in Zambia home to the Victoria falls. We drove past the town’s central business district, and the main buildings and…voila! There it is… southern Africa’s house of adventure. This is the Adventure Centre on the right side of the road just outside town. The building’s choice of colours is rather unique and makes it stand out. Pinks, whites and yellows…and the writing too!

The Adventure Centre houses various adventure companies… companies that provide various safari adventures of your lifetime. Just think of the;
· bungi jump, a 111 metre free fall off the Victoria Falls Bridge (second highest in the world),
· Abseiling the Batoka Gorge (122m deep),
· Micro light flights over the awe-inspiring Victoria Falls and the gorge,
· White-water rafting over the 23 raging rapids down the Zambezi River (considered world’s best white water rafting),
· River boarding and surfing,
· Exquisite sunsets and stargazing on the boat the African Queen above the Zambezi River, etc.

We drove on and arrived...

“Finally we’re here” I whispered to my lovely wife Molly. We had arrived at the Victoria Falls. First I wanted to capture the essence, you know visualize it in my mind’s eye. As I got more excited I remembered this…

The Victoria Falls are a spectacular 1,701 metre span with 1,200 metres of it in Zambia. The top where the greatest curtain of water starts to plunge is 111 meters (300 feet) high. During the height of the floods (March to May) the Victoria Falls has the largest sheet of falling water in the world with over 545 million liters a minute (9 million liters /sec) cascading over the rocky cliffs. The sound is exhilarating, the sight is astounding and the experience is breathtakingly spectacular in the extreme. The mist is seen 30 kilometres away. No wonder the great Dr David Livingstone wrote,” …but scenes so lovely must have been gazed upon by angels in their flight"