Gem and Stu’s World Tour

We arrived at Vic Falls after a long and hot drive from Bulawayo. The camp site was a bit of a dive but we managed to camp as far away from the bar as possible.

Vic Falls was so lovely - the town itself was a bit dead but it was great to have a few free days to have a wander around a place. We walked around the falls (Zim side only) and got absolutely soaked - there was a lot of water there at that time of year (some parts you could not see for the amount of water). That was also why we could not do the white water rafting there (so we will do this in NZ when we get there). We also had a snoop around the Vic Falls Hotel, so swanky that we did not stop for a coffee! We also managed to have a few lovely meals out and ate a lot of meat and game (crocodile, ostrich, warthog, impala and plain old beef).

One day we bit the bullet and decided on a day of adrenaline! Stu decided to throw himself off aperfectly good bridge and went with a load of others from our trip and bungee jumped from the bridge that links Zambia and Zimbabwe, over the Zambezi river. We all went down to give some moral support but it looked so cool and Stu said it was the best (I may be tempeted to do one in NZ now).

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That afternoon a few of us went on the adrelain afternoon. We did a ‘flying fox’, zip line and gorge swing (x2) over a 100 metre gorge. It was amazing and I loved it - apart from my 1st gorge swing (with 80m free fall) when the man just pushes you off!!!! Eck!

Flying Fox:

Gorge Swing:

A perfectly good bridge:

The rest of the Falls we just chilled out and ate more game. We managed to get our hands on a Zim local paper and the propaganda in there was just hilarious (but not in a good way).

We absolutely loved Zim and hopefully we will be able to go back soon as it was such a great place. It was sad though that everyone was so pleased we were there but everything so quiet due to the lack of tourists. We also noted that there was hardly any food in the supermarkets and when we tried to buy some food for a picnic to have at the Falls we ended up with a sausage roll and some overpriced crisps (as they literally had nothing else to buy). Getting money was also weird as we had to get it through the black market as the banks gave such ridiculous rates. All fun and games.