Tour Days 8 & 9 – Livingstone
Cross the Zambezi River by ferry to enter into Zambia and continue to Livingstone. We will spend the last two days of our tour here, a great base to see both natural wonders and take part in some exciting activities. Get up close (and wet from the spray) while awing at the immense Victoria Falls, raft the whitewater of the mighty Zambezi, and for the more adventurous, bungee jump with the Victoria Falls in view.
Hooray - today is a sleep-in day!!! Eric and I have opted out of the optional morning game drive in Chobe NP… we don’t want to run the risk of getting game-drived-out because we still have a few more parks to see during our African adventures.
Unfortunately our sleep-in lasts until 7:00am – bummer – but it’s still a lazy morning, complete with a good ol’ fashion breakfast fry-up when the game drivers return – hooray!!!
The border crossing into Zambia is pretty uneventful, especially since we manage to skip the ferry queue… our driver Riaan pays the toll operator an “administration fee” and suddenly we’re at the front of the line! Charlene then takes care of obtaining all of our visas for us, so we’re through customs in record time!
Eric and I are really looking forward to seeing Victoria Falls and our excitement builds when we enter Livingstone – we can see the spray from the falls off in the horizon. Apparently they’re roaring with water right now because of the large amount of rainfall this year.
For the next couple of days we are on our own. There’s lots of adrenaline, cuddly-animal and feel-good activities to participate in, but Eric and I are just happy to be in one place for a while.
We spend the rest of the arrival day playing Skip-Bo, going for a walk, making dinner – it’s no longer included in the tour – and hanging out with the Wisconsin Sisters.
Our first full free day, Eric and I are joined by Connie from Jersey Island – south of England – for a morning of exploring Victoria Falls.
It is breath-taking.
The three of us time our viewing very well and manage to keep ourselves relatively dry from the spray.
The morning starts off a bit cloudy, but by the time we’re wrapping up our visit, the blue sky is popping out from behind the clouds.
Niagara Falls back home is amazing too, but it’s lovely to see a waterfall of this magnitude in a relatively natural setting… there isn’t a neon sign for miles.
There are however souvenir salesmen in abundance and the three of us have some fun bargaining for deals in the market.
Tonight also happens to be the last night of the tour, so we all meet up for one more group dinner and finish off the evening reliving the day’s events.
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