This is a picture of me standing on the Zambian side of Victoria Falls in southeast Africa.
It was our one day of “vacation” during a three-week-long trek around southern Africa that my father and I took last summer on behalf of his company FW Winter Inc. & Co. which started in Johannesburg and took us all the way up to the northern tip of Zambia.
The main purpose of our trip was business, but on this particular day we didn’t have anything planned so we decided to make the 6 hour trip by car (in each direction), mostly over dirt roads, from our homebase at the time, Lusaka, all the way down to Livingstone to see one of the Seven Natural Wonders of the World. It was a long and incredibly bumpy ride, but when we finally made it I understood why my dad was so insistent that we go.
For more information on Victoria Falls click the following link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victoria_Falls
This is a picture of a monkey from on top of the falls. Unfortunetly, besides monkeys you really aren’t going to find much wildlife on the Zambian side of Victoria Falls. Due to lack of protection, almost all of the animals that used to roam that area have been hunted to near extinction.
There is still a good amount of wildlife being preserved on the Zimbabwean side of the falls, but due to political reasons, we didn’t really think it was safe for me to cross the border as an American citizen. We probably would have been fine, but the situation in Zimbabwe is incredibly brutal at the moment, and it didn’t make sense to take any chances.
For more information on the situation in Zimbabwe, click on the following link:
http://www.zimbabwesituation.com/
