Yesterday (and yes I mean yesterday), I told you about our game drive, and today I am going to tell you about our river boat cruise and our trip to Victoria Falls (the largest water fall in the world). I hope you enjoy.
I am going to say this right off the bat. All the video I shot I will put all the video on YouTube by next Friday.
Our river cruise was quite interesting. It was just our family and one other person (a Motswana lady also from Gaborone). We saw elephants, hippos, and lots of birds. The boat was rather small compared to some of the other ones (some had two floors). Anyway the ride lasted about three hours.
Moving up to today, I will say (for a lack of a better comparison) eastern Zimbabwe looks kinda like North Caroline. Or western NC (with the mountains and all). Any way it was about a ten minute drive to the border, and then an hour drive to Victory Falls village. When we got there and went to the falls first. The minute we got out of the car, all these people in there little stalls were trying to rent us raincoats. (By the way, the ZimDollar [Zimbabwe's old currency] had absolutely no value, so now they are using the US Dollar.) We got some ($2.00), and went on into the park. The first couple of (shall I say fingers) were good for video or picture shooting. The others as we went on got wetter and wetter. And the mist that was coming up was so thick you couldn't see the other side. So tired and wet, we went back to the car. We went to lunch at Victoria Falls Hotel, and went to the curio market afterwards. I got a stone hippo for about $25.00 and a small wooden statue of The Big 5 for P220.00 and $3.00.
All and all I enjoyed today. I got super wet (along with my MP3, my passport, and my camera bag and camera). But I can say that I can look back on this experience.
Tomorrow we leave for Gwetta lodge, we will spend two nights there (please don't expect a blog post, I don't know if there will be Wi-Fi.) and after that one night in Khama Rhino Sancturary (I know no Wi-Fi there), and back in Gabs on Saturday. Until then!
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