The Victoria Falls

Sunday 24th October 2016

Salt, Livingstone and Walker, I Presume

By 6 am we were at the entrance to The Falls and witnessed the hoisting of both the Zim National Flag and the National Parks Flag at the entrance.  An impressive start to the day.  Locals pay $7 to visit and visitors $30......  I am not too sure what Penny really expected to see but it certainly wasn't what she found; it was so much more.  And for me it wasn't quite as I remembered either; it's the dry season and it hasn't rained for months but I didn't expect to see a non-existent Rainbow or Horseshoe Falls.  It was quite amazing to see to the bottom of the gorges though and it just brought home that however many times that you may visit the Falls they are completely different.  We walked along the paths and thoroughly enjoyed the experience.  However, much you pay it's totally worth it.

Boots' parents and brother Andrew at The Falls c 1980

Sunrise at the Falls

Boots first visited The Falls back in 1972, after a landrover trip down through Africa, and began living there after a stint of a couple of years post South Africa in Lupane in 1974.  His parents and brother visited later.  I moved to the Falls in 1982 and that's when we met - getting married 6 months later in November 1982 with a reception at Larry and Shirley Cumming's farm.  Group wedding photos all taken under Livingstone's statue.

"Come from afar. Stand before me for a while.  Return home and I dare try and forget me.  If you cannot forget me take strength from me"

The Victoria Falls - Mosi oa Tunya - The Smoke That Thunders - one of the modern seven wonders of the world.

Rainbow

Hapana mvura