Ilala Lodge Victoria Falls

... bridge, built in 1905. It is a monument to former South African Prime Minister Cecil Rhodes&#8217;s dream of creating a Cairo to Cape Town railway (the line was never completed). At 111 m. (364 ft.), the bridge hosts the second highest bungee jump in Africa, <br><br>A stop at the famous Victoria Falls Hotel, also built around 1905, and a little curio shopping before dinner at Mama Africa Eating House with our Irish friends. This is a ...

... Lusaka 3 days ago and had to buy 5 liters of petrol for $10 US. Only 2 petrol stations have have fuel here in Livingstone. I stopped at one to fill up and buy fuel in a container but &#8220;no fuel&#8221;. There were 2 military police there with there AK 47,s. 1 man and a woman. I asked if i could take there pictures, they were not happy. 30 minutes later after telling them what i was doing they were my best mates. The army woman with her AK wanted to ...

... br>Along the way he had picked up 4 namibian women and three babies..........from a car that had broken down in the wilderness...............after droppping me off he continued to take the Women and babies to a Destination further south where they would be able to find help............<br>A good Samaritan if ever i met one!!!<br><br><br>inbetween all this fun .......i hooked up with an English chick and hired a car for 3 days to visit the famous Atosha NP................on a ...

... adventures along the way. <br><br>So. We survived and LOVED Africa. <br><br>It is nearly impossible to sum up our experience and our thoughts on Africa but taking a stab at it we would say that it&#8217;s WORLDS AND WORLDS away from our westernised day to day lives with amazingly friendly people and diverse and beautiful scenery. <br><br>We did an overland trip with the African Travel Company and camped from Zimbabwe up through to Uganda. We pretty much did ...

... with a tandem jump you have a 50/50 chance of living, who wants to die today?" Then they put our harnesses on us and attached the two of us together in 2 places. We were all set to jump now. We sat nervously on the bench as they described the jumping process to us. We were to hop up until our toes were hanging over the edge and then start counting down from 5. At 2 we were to bend our knees and at 1 we were to jump. We asked them if they could simply push us off ...

... Religion&#8217;s bigger here, too, complete with gospel music. Go figure. After a few nights I switch rooms to a place with wi-fi, but it&#8217;s not very good, just better than nothing. They&#8217;ve got four identical cats, though, big ol&#8217; fat boys, so I adopt them all, and sleep with them, too. The night air is chilly. All the hawkers are trying to unload now-defunct one-hundred-trillion-dollar Zimbabwe banknotes, achieving for them in death ...

... English and Zambians have a rich and long history together so they would do us special prices. Must admit there were some really nice gifts but we were resistant to temptation.<br><br>We then drove to the Total garage and got our tyre replaced. Then after a light lunch at Steers again (had to wait for an hour before getting the new tyre), we went to the crocodile park to see some Nile crocodiles and to have a look at some snakes in the ...

... street meat that Felix brought us (which we totally should not have done & we promise we won't do it again!) and talked until about midnight when we passed out under our mosquito nets. (Deep breath) So much to write! This morning we were picked up at 6:15am to head to our lion encounter. We were thinking, cool will get to see some lions up close and maybe get a chance to pet one for a sec. But no, we were taking four lion cubs for a walk in the bush. We got to hang out with them ...