What a way to top off a wonderful trip. Victoria Falls and the Zambezi River are certainly African Gems.
After some interesting negotiating I arranged for a 30 minute helicopter ride over the falls and down the gorge for several kilometers. Here, not like the Grand Canyon, they still fly just above the water down at the bottom of the gorge, breath taking.
Our pilot circled the falls 6 times allowing me many great opportunities for photos and several capturing the rainbow from the mist above the falls. I asked; how close can we go? He said not much closer than this by regulation but stated get your camera ready for the last pass. As we turned the corner for the last pass he dropped right down and swung out allowing me the photo you see above, great stuff.
We had our first encounter with the monkeys here at the Royal Livingstone Hotel. At tea this afternoon a little devil came up in front of us and passed on the right, we thought he went through. Not so, the little devil did an end run around us and made off with the sugar from our table. We thought it was funny, the staff wasn’t amused.
Bad news, Devils Pool was closed. The water was too high and no one was permitted in the water. You can imagine how disappointed Linda was, NOT.
We are both so exhausted, such hard work being on vacation. Tomorrow we head back to Johannesburg for our flight home. Later I will post a recap about the fantastic organization of the trip that Orvis International did.
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