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| Thankfully, we left Mongu with a bit more style than how we arrived |
Our pilot, Don Amborski, and
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A shot of Livingstone from above |
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A view of the floodplains
You can just make out the Zambezi on the top right hand corner |
Another shot of the river from the plane |
It's really amazing how much the river really does flood |
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| A look at Victoria Falls (the city) on the Zimbabwean side |
The Zambezi is a whole lot wider here near the falls than it is in
Mongu |
All these little islands are great for camping and exploring |
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The first glimpse of Victoria Falls
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Right at the brink
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(What follow are just a lot of ariel shots of the falls, because
when would you ever see this view again? or ever!)
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You can see the bridge to the Zimbabwe side and the Batoka gorge
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The gorge really snakes back and
forth in a very interesting way
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Leaving the Falls to land in Livingstone
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Dad and I at the start of Mosi-O-Tunya
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Mosi-O-Tunya
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Or Vitoria Falls
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"The Smoke that Thunders"
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The bridge to Zimbabwe and the beginning of the Batoka gorge
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There's kind of a Niagra Falls
look going on, ne?
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The Zimbabwe side
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Most people say that the
Zimbabwean side is nicer...
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But I'm kinda partial to the Zambian side
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It's very dark, but I just couldn't resist a picture of my parents
at Victoria Falls
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Is this what David Livingstone saw?
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At the top of the Falls
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Just nearly at the brink
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I'd get arrested for doing this at Niagra Falls (I wish we had
a photo of the guys swimming just near where I'm standing)
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Mosi-O-Tunya game park.
Finding Rhinos
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Two Rhinos
(Gumboot and Mama)
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Three Rhinos
(We actually found everyone but George. There are five rhinos in Zambia)
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A stunned Impala
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Zebra and Impala
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Hey look!
There's an elephant!!
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Oooh, he's coming this way
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Wow, he's really close!
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He's passing right in front
of our vehicle!!!
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Elephants are terribly destructive animals
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A shot of the Zambezi. We actually
had lunch inside the park.
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We finally saw my favourite.
A giraffe.
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He was so cute I had to take two!
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Our boat for the sunset cruise
Taonga Safari
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There is a hippo there somewhere
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This elephant was throwing water into the bushes...
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and we couldn't figure out
what was going on...
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Until it chased a croc and it's baby
out from the grass
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This is our best hippo picture. They are really hard to photograph!
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This is the Crocodile Farm at Livingstone
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The last morning, Mom and I left Dad sleeping and went to see the
Crocs
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The staff here respond to complaints of man-eating crocs...
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go to the Zambezi, fish them out and bring them to this farm...
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where their eggs are harvested for leather and meat.
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The big guy in the corner is something like nine feet long!
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