Blogs from Livingstone, Zambia, Africa - page 7

We are coming to the end of our tour. The last highlight of the trip is Victoria Falls, one of the Seven Wonders of the World. It is twice as high and twice as wide as Niagara Falls. As it is too much red tape to take our bus across the river into Zambia, we sadly bid our bus driver Barry good bye in the morning. A very short ferry ride across the Chobe river puts us into Zambia- and of course, there is a $50.00 customs fee to enter. I mention this fact for two reasons- one is- as usual, Canadians are always charged the most it seems when entering other countries- the second reason has to more to do with my travel agent...........my personal travel agent. Altho he does a WONDERFUL job of planning ... read more

So after two short flights we arrived in Livingstone which is named after David Livingstone who was the first white man to explore the area. It is also the home of Victoria Falls which is on the Zambezi river. An enjoyable taxi drive dicussing English football teams soon had us arriving at our waterfront campsite to start getting a feel for the next week of sleeping under canvas.....and with various wild animals around.....namely monkeys and baboons at this site! Our first night in tent was a bit more luxourious than what was to come as the tents actually had framed beds in and an electric bedside lamp. With mum and dad sharing, I was able to have my tent all to myself! Before we got too comfortable in them though we booked ourselves onto a sunset ... read more

Victoria Falls have been one of all things on our travel list that we always wanted to see since it is one of the most amazing nature wonders in the world. Of course we couldn’t resist jumping into the fabulous falls either and it has been a lifetime experience for sure. Even better we could enjoy the last days and celebrating New Years with the view towards night Victoria Falls with our dear friends. Livingstone is the closest town to Victoria Falls from the Zambian side and there wouldn’t be a big deal to do there if not Victoria Falls faced the town. Many tourists are passing Livingstone and staying for few days. It has been quite busy since New Year was few days away and of course the place gets its own charm this time ... read more

wow, it's been a great day for both Shelly and myself. She did the kayaking on the Zambezi river. it's world class and part of it is closed because the water is too high and it is too dangerous. But you know Shelly, she had to go for it. well she thought she'd be in a 2 person kayak. wrong, it was a one person inflatable. she said the hike down to the river was wild, very hard. I've not seen the pictures. Then she got to the river and that's when she discovered it's a one man inflatable kayak. She started out and after the first 2 rapids, she actually thought she might have gotten in over her head and might have quit if there was a way out of the gorge, but there wasn't. ... read more

Zambia (10 June 2011 to 13 June 2011) Next morning with our lunches packed once again, we headed to the airport for our flight to Zambia. Flying a low cost airline, “1time”, we didn’t want to take chances so went way ahead of time, grabbed a sandwich, muffin and a coffee at the airport and boarded the plane to Victoria Falls. Livingstone airport was a tiny quaint place with bizarre amounts of checking and immigration formalities into the country. Our pick-up from the hotel “The Waterfront” awaited us and we reached the same in about 20 minutes. Checked in, had our lunch and headed out to plan our activities there. After booking for the tour of the falls and the micro-light flight for the next day we roamed around the property and settled by the deck ... read more