Victoria Falls Lodges - Reviews and Rates

We had to leave Pretoria at 6 am for our 9:30 flight to Victoria Falls, so I kissed Sophia good-bye as she slept in bed, and Suzan at the door as she saw me off. I was traveling light, with just a 10 kg rolling bag, my backpack, and a tote bag of various things. I hoped that Suzan could get my other stuff home ok.

There were 20 of us load...

Gorge Swing!! Andy and Lisa came with me to the gorge swing but we timed it wrong and got there for lunch time and was no-one there so had to wait until 2pm for them to come back. It was good cos was a great view and just talked the whole time. Wasnt nervous at all until it came to the actual standing on the ledge part and looking down. They usu...

Got a flight from JoBurg to Vic Falls, then was surprised to get charged a visa of $70 to enter the country. But there was a funny part, the customs area that had to declaire items was just a brick wall. Got a shuttle from the airport to the camp site, met and Australian couple Andrew and Lisa Clydesdale and Jenny Yoe from London who was going f...

Douglas picks us up with a bus for 22 people, all for us. We are going to see the Vic Falls from the Zimbabwe side. I know what you are saying. Zimbabwe is not such a good idea: they do not like western white tourists so much, but that is the way the hotel does it and the most of the almost 2km falls are at the Zimbabwe side. Zambia, which has a...

Go to the following link for more photos to go with this section - you may need to cut and paste it into your browser to get it to work: http://picasaweb.google.com/tree2222/Vi ctoriaFallsZimbabweSi de After my eventful evening with Jerimiah I retreated swiftly to the dorm and met my Aussie room-mate, Sarnia. We had a short chat before heading t...

Another day and another early start on the road. I had a rather uncomfortable night caused by a reaction to the malaria pills I've been taking and had pretty bad indigestion. The trip back on the hellish road was twice as bad, but what with my manboobs and bloated belly I was beginning to wonder whether the doctor had given me some dodgy pills. ...

As I gazed out of the airplane window on our descent into the town of Victoria Falls I saw the Africa that I have been waiting to see for so long and I knew our authentic African Adventure was about to begin. The landscape even from the plane was beautiful. Endless flat, dry, land sparsely covered with trees that look like broccoli from the sky....

The train to Vic Falls the next evening was pretty uneventful. One of the quietest sleepers I have taken anywhere - mostly because there were not really any stops I think, but if there were I didn't notice. We had a first class cabin for the two of us with just two beds in, and it only cost $5 each. It wasn't that luxurious though - the washbasi...

Our days in Victoria Falls was relaxing. We indulged in a buffet breakfast at The Kingdom (where it is so cheap to eat, we have done so at nearly every meal). And then had a day of spending time on our own. I visited a Witch Doctor. I sat inside his little cow pat hut, he sat crossed legged half naked. He threw the bones and told me my future......

The afternoon cruise on the Chobe River was a blast. When we arrived at Chobe Game Lodge, we immediately came upon two bushbuck munching way on the front lawn. Once we got inside, Andy paid for all of us while we browsed the gift shop. We met a very nice Dutch couple that loved it there. We were talking to them when we were summoned down to the ...