David Livingstone Safari Lodge

... Livingston airport is in the middle of nowhere and the road out is barely paved and very pitted. We drove up to the David Livingstone Safari Lodge, in quintessential African-style, right on the Mighty Zambezi. Unreal. It was a pinch me moment.   We ...

Arriving in Livingstone, Zambia we settled into the David Livingstone Safari Lodge. Situated on the Zambezi River the hotel grounds are lovely and the views over the river are worthy of an African sunset. Livingstone, full of tourists from around ...

... hefty tip, but Taxi drivers quickly became my arch-nemisi (plural?). In what was intended to be a quiet sun-downer at the Livingstone Safari Lodge – five star hotel with a bar on a deck over the Zambezi, about 200m from the edge of the falls – ...

... , great clouds rising into the sky, a vast expanse of river and gorge. One can only wonder at the awesome sight that David Livingstone trekked for days to get to and the magnificence of this find. At the Royal Livingstone Hotel, an open deck ventures out ...

... in you a sense of incomparable awe!  No wonder this is one of the seven natural wonders of the world!  In fact, David Livingstone, the first European to see the falls way back in 1855, described it best as: “scenes so lovely must have ...

... large bustling town and probably the most well know of Zambian towns because of the Victoria Falls. The town gets its name from David Livingstone who first saw the falls in 1855 having heard about the 'smoke that sounds' from the locals. We drove through ...

... walk the cats as part of their daily routine. Yes, please. On the way, we picked up others and as we entered the Royal Livingstone, there were five zebras and in the driveway, and just standing there, not moving one inch for the van, was a huge giraffe! ...

... bridge...3 times!" "Noice." That's Aussie pronunciation of "Nice" We leave and check into our hotel, the Victoria Falls Safari Lodge. Nice, big hotel, surprisingly big actually. The terrace has a beautiful view of the wilderness and it overlooks a ...

... drinks, and hot appetizers on a boat called the Ra-Ikane.  The person Ra-Ikane was a guide from Botswana that helped David Livingstone when he first discovered the falls.  Some of the animals we saw were crocodiles, birds, elephants, impala, ...

... river is forced into a fissure created in the Jurassic Age by the cooling and cracking of molten rock.  Dr. David Livingstone, a Scottish medical doctor and missionary, visited the area in 1855 and is widely credited with being the first European ...

... an unexpected half day in Livingstone as the new group of 8 joining us were taken to the Victoria Falls. I went to the local David Livingstone museum to gain a refresher into his life. Seeing on the map the 3 routes that he travelled in what I could only ...

... an unexpected half day in Livingstone as the new group of 8 joining us were taken to the Victoria Falls. I went to the local David Livingstone museum to gain a refresher into his life. Seeing on the map the 3 routes that he travelled in what I could only ...

... to the north, the group is known as the Spice Islands. The island was also the starting point for many explorers, including David Livingstone. After arriving in Stone Town, we had to go through passport control for some reason, even though we were still ...

... in the line, missing, lost or just a fable. The town museum does throw up a fine exhibit to its namesake, David Livingstone, clothes, watches, walking sticks, paraphernalia, diaries, and his 30cm-deep, oval-shaped personal shaving mirror, framed on ...

... pleasant walk through the National Park...everything is clearly marked there...you usually begin the walk at the monument to David Livingstone (this Scottish explorer was supposedly the first European who saw, described and named the falls "Victoria") ...

... -up, I can't tie up the phone lines for too long at a time. I've also been doing some reading: a biography of David Livingstone (appropriate for Africa, I though), "God's Outlaw" (a biography of William Tyndale), a Swahili grammar book, "Lord Foulgrin's ...

... ; More famously, the lakeside port lies 8km from Ujiji village, where Henry Morton Stanley muttered his immortal words to David Livingstone. Stand on the greeting spot, and unsuccessfully try and see Lake Tanganyika through the trees and houses, finding ...

... period with many photos of the region depicting old safari's and river excursions. The first European to see the falls was Dr.David Livingstone on 17 November 1855, during his 1852-56 journey from the upper Zambezi to the mouth of the river. The falls ...