Greetings!
The good news when we arrived at the Zimbabwe border was
that they had lowered the visa cost from $65 to $30 per person.
The bad news was that it took them
about an hour and a half to process about 40 visas. There were two groups ahead
of us, and they made us all stand in the sun outside a small office for an hour
until one of the officials decided to process us in groups, allowing us to sit
in our busses while they stamped our passports, deposited our money, and made
us receipts.
But the wait was worth it.
A short time later, we checked into the
A'Zambezi RiverLodge.
After lunch, Kembo
drove us on a tour of the town.
Some are staying on here after this tour ends, and most have optional
“adreneline activities” scheduled for tomorrow (river- rafting, lion-walking,
helicopter rides over the Falls, gorge swinging, etc.).
Once we were acquainted with the
locations of the craft stores, banks, casino, and post office, we headed off to
the Falls.
What a wet wonder!
I’m told that in the heavy flow months you get drenched from the parking
lots.
But you have a hard time
actually seeing the falls.
It’s
three months later, and we rent rain parkas for $2 each, and need them as we
walk the edge of the gorge across from the falls.
My camera is wrapped in a plastic bag, and Pat and I look
like wet hobbits.
To the question of how big is this.
Of the comparison of Niagara, Iguazu,
and Victoria: big is measured by height, width, and volume.
Victoria is higher (107 meters), Iguazu
is wider (2,400 feet), and Niagara has more water volume (4-6 million cubic feet/minute).
But Niagara freezes.
And Iguazu has boats that take you out near the waterfalls, and has
trails at water level. So what
does this have? Wart hogs,
trumpeter hornbills, and bush bucks on the trails. So there.
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