{"id":14977,"date":"2016-04-11T07:15:38","date_gmt":"2016-04-11T06:15:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geoffjones.com\/?p=14977"},"modified":"2016-04-11T07:15:38","modified_gmt":"2016-04-11T06:15:38","slug":"victoria_falls","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsite.geoffjones.com\/?p=14977","title":{"rendered":"25090 A walking day at Victoria Falls"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wednesday 6th April<\/p>\n

I didn’t sleep at all well, maybe it was the excitement of visiting the Victoria Falls a childhood dream or maybe it was the bed! \u00a0The previous evening had been pretty awful with all the locals dossing about watching football \ud83d\ude41 plus a silly ticketing system at the bar. Unfortunately for me \u00a0I\u00a0 had already booked and paid for 4 nights.<\/p>\n

For breakfast \u00a0I took myself of to The Shearwater Cafe followed by a stream of the usual touts :-(, Interestingly Shearwater seem to own everything in Victoria Falls.<\/p>\n

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Small section of the falls<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I wandered down to The Falls and paid my $30 entrance fee. The falls are totally spectacular and didn’t disappoint at all far better than I ever imagined just so wide, nearly a mile, the volume of water is totally immense making me wonder why so much of Africa is desert and that Zimbabwe is importing food from South Africa.<\/p>\n

I took loads of photos until the inevitable happened and the camera became waterlogged with the spray \ud83d\ude41 \ud83d\ude41 \u00a0fortunately the iPhone kept working.<\/p>\n

I went to the internal cafe, Shearwater again, and tried to dry it out. I was not alone \ud83d\ude41 a lady had an identical D550 that had suffered the same fate, she was in a much worse position than me as her travelling was only just beginning. She is off\u00a0to China via the ‘stans.<\/a> It’s a small world – she recognised me from the border post!<\/p>\n

In the afternoon we did another quick tour of the falls the wind must have changed direction as you could see the falls much clearer than in the morning so I was able to get a nice header pic in front of the main fall \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Then it was back through the touts to the town<\/p>\n

\"true_size_of_africa\"<\/a>Apart from the camera a great ending to my first African trip \ud83d\ude42 So pleased that I made it to the falls by using the train and safari vehicle. I wouldn’t have had time to bike the additional 1000 miles. Africa is just so vast it’s hard to imagine as you can see from the diagram.<\/p>\n

So although I’ve biked 2000 miles it barely registers on the African scene \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Once home I guess it will be time to send the Canon back to Colchester Cameras yet again! My next camera I think will be a Nikon which apparently are a lot more water resistant.<\/p>\n

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