Walking around town, you can hear the rumble, see the mist rising in the distance. Teasing. Then the trees clear around the Devil’s Cataract and you feel the raw power of all that water pounding down from a height twice that of Niagara Falls.
Experiencing that first peek of Victoria Falls, you don’t understand why the hotel recommended umbrellas, why all these people are walking around with ponchos. By the end of the two hours we spent walking to the east end, it became painfully clear. The Devil’s Cataract produces a light mist, the Main Falls a shifting drizzle. Past the middle point at Livingstone Island, you’re lucky to see anything between fire hose blasts in the face. This was partially due to a gusty easterly wind, but the lack of tree cover past Horseshoe Falls means that it’s drizzly and wet even in good weather.
Around Danger Point (no guardrail- yikes!), my head tired of pokes from Marnie’s umbrella. Disgruntled, I told her to walk ahead. And immediately got doused by a downpour. Damn Karma.
We dried out watching lunatics bungee off the bridge to Zambia. A friend informed us that the record number of jumps in a day is 11, a record which stayed solidly intact during our trip.
Experiencing that first peek of Victoria Falls, you don’t understand why the hotel recommended umbrellas, why all these people are walking around with ponchos. By the end of the two hours we spent walking to the east end, it became painfully clear. The Devil’s Cataract produces a light mist, the Main Falls a shifting drizzle. Past the middle point at Livingstone Island, you’re lucky to see anything between fire hose blasts in the face. This was partially due to a gusty easterly wind, but the lack of tree cover past Horseshoe Falls means that it’s drizzly and wet even in good weather.
Around Danger Point (no guardrail- yikes!), my head tired of pokes from Marnie’s umbrella. Disgruntled, I told her to walk ahead. And immediately got doused by a downpour. Damn Karma.
We dried out watching lunatics bungee off the bridge to Zambia. A friend informed us that the record number of jumps in a day is 11, a record which stayed solidly intact during our trip.
It looks absolutely spectacular. I am so jealous! Deb
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