Victoria Falls

I was picked up at 8 o'clock in the morning today for the tour to the Vic Falls on the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe. A family with an adult son from Italy, 2 guys from Spain, and a father and adult daughter from England were also on board at first. The tour was exclusively on the Zimbabwean side of the Falls. However, the father and daughter from England were only taken to the Victoria Falls International Airport and dropped off there for their return flight. I had a good long conversation with them because they had done an internship as a prospective veterinarian in Maun at the Okavango Delta (my next destination) for a while and they could give me a lot of tips on what I could do in Maun and the Delta! 😃 It took a while at the border because there was already a long line of tourists waiting for the border crossing. But then we were in Zimbabwe. 😃 On the way, we passed elephants again, but this time also lions! Very far away, so that I didn't see them at first. And only one at first. But by the time I had prepared my camera with the 600mm zoom lens, he had gotten up and disappeared... 😩 But there's another one! Where? There, next to the tree! Which tree? We're in a forest! 🙈😅 There's one without leaves behind the big leafy tree, and the lion is lying right next to it! Which big leafy tree and which one without leaves? There are hundreds of them each!? 🙈😅 But then I also saw the lion lying there! Camera was already prepared, just zoom in, capture, focus, and shoot! Done! 😄
After the father and daughter were dropped off at the airport, we finally went to the Victoria Falls! But the son of the Italian family and I first booked a helicopter flight over the Falls! Breathtakingly amazing view from above on the Vic Falls, and you could take just as beautiful pictures here! 😃 Then we went straight to the Falls. The two Spaniards had already left because they wanted to stay here for 3 days, so it was only the Italian family and me. We had about 2 and a half hours to walk along the Falls and take pictures, then we were picked up again at the entrance. By the way, the Falls are over 1 and a half kilometers wide and up to 108 meters high, making them one of the largest waterfalls in the world!
The journey back was quite quick, there wasn't much going on at the border this time, and we were all safely dropped off at home!
Tomorrow we will continue to Maun and the Okavango Delta! 👍😉