Victoria Falls
There are few appropriate superlatives that have
not already been applied to this maginificent
natural wonder of the world; in many ways it defies
desription. So vast are the Falls and their setting
that is is difficult to grasp their true grandeur
forthis reason, they are best seen from the air.
The Victoria Falls Offer an inescapable closeness
to the natural elements. The towering column of
spray when the river is high, the thunder of the
falling water, the terrifying abyss that separates
Zimbabwe from Zambia, the forest-lined, placid
tranquil lagoons upstream in which hippo and deadly
crocodiles lurk.
David Livingstone reported the existence of the
Falls to the outside world in 1860. The result was
immediate and from that point, the number of
foreign visitors
rose steadily. People walked, rode on horseback or
traveled by ox-wagon from the Transvall along what
was then called the Hunters Road (now the border
between Botswana and Zimbabwe) and on reaching
George Westbeech's store at Pandamatenga left their
animals there, safe from the lethal bite of the
tsetse fly, and walked the remaining 80 kilometers
due north to the Falls.
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