Dispatches from the front #9 | Aforika
Dispatches from the front #9
Submitted by Cecil Hill on Sun, 2017/06/11 - 17:24
All good things come to an end, they say.
I suppose there's an element of truth to the statement, though I prefer to see it as a pause in a continuum, rather than an end.
Celesta and I have just spent a glorious week together in Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe.
She will return to Cape Town tomorrow (Mon 12 Jun).
The week was memorable for several reasons:
1) Celesta and I were reunited, for the first time since my departure, on the last day of the 11th week of this tour.
2) This was the first visit to the Vic Falls for both of us. The falls are truly deserving of its recognition as a Unesco World Heritage Site and as one of the 7 Wonders of the Natural World.
3) Sharing the experience of a visit to the falls with my wife, enjoying the views from the ground, as well as from the air, ranks as one of the highlights not only of this tour but of my entire life.
4) I enjoyed a week of genuine comfort - and priceless companionship - after living in a tent for the last two
weeks leading up to her arrival in Vic Falls. The last time I camped, prior to my arrival in Lusaka, was in Kosi Bay at the beginning of April.
We rounded out our visit to the region with a day tour, by bus, to the Chobe National Park in Botswana. The three-hour long game viewing cruise on the Chobe River, followed by a two-hour long game drive on the riverbank before returning to Zimbabwe, is highly recommended.
Day 67: Lusaka to Livingstone (466km)
Day 68 - 73: Livingstone
Day 74: Livingstone to Victoria Falls (30km)
Day 75 - 79: Victoria Falls
Day 80: Return trip to Chobe National Park (Botswana) - Victoria Falls,
Kazangula Border, Kasane
Day 81 - 83: Victoria Falls
Fri, 2017/05/26 - 12:00 - Livingstone : -17.8519791 25.8285153
Fri, 2017/06/02 - 12:00 - Victoria Falls : -17.9318052 25.8255575
Thu, 2017/06/08 - 12:00 - Kasane : -17.7952306 25.1711298
Thu, 2017/06/08 - 12:00 - Chobe National Park : -18.6666667 24.5
Submitted by Jackie Wiese on Mon, 2017/06/12 - 12:12
Dit is heerlik om so "saam" met jou te reis. Die Vicvalle is altyd 'n belewenis en hoop dat jy en Celesta dit ook van die Zambiese kant belewe het. Ons het Jean se verjaardag daar tydens volmaan gevier en dan is die Valle die aand oop. Die "lunar rainbow" was voorwaar 'n onvergeetlike ervaring!
Geniet die res van die avontuur en dankie dat jy dit met ons by die huis deel.
Groetnis & geniet elke kilometer!
Submitted by Cecil Hill on Fri, 2017/06/16 - 15:12
Baie dankie vir die saamreis, jy is altyd welkom.
Die Vicvalle is voorwaar 'n belewenis! Ons twee het ongelukkig nie saam die Zambiese kant van die valle op die grond beleef nie, net vanuit die lug tydens 'n helikoptervlug. Ek het die week voor Celesta se aankoms in Livingstone deurgebring en bietjie rondgery en -gekyk. Dit was vir my net te veel pyn om, met of sonder die motorfiets, die grensformaliteite weer oor en weer aan te durf - daar is basies bykans nooit 'n "stil" geleentheid by die grensposte nie.
Ons was van voorneme om die valle tydens die volmaan (9 Junie) te besoek maar moes dit ongelukkig misloop weens die sameloop van 'n paar "omstandighede".