One of the natural wonders of the world - Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe
We left Botswana behind, and flew to Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe . Also named "The Smoke That Thunders" (translated from the indigenous language), Victoria Falls is impressive by any measure, but even more when you can sense it with sight, sound, and touch. You hear the rumbling of the water off the falls before you can see it. The path along the chasm is about 1.6 kilometers (1 mile) long, and in parts the wind brings the spray to caress you with a cold shower from the Zambezi River (hence the raincoats). The park is well managed, clean, and safe. There are wild animals, and people are warned not to feed the animals. Lisa saw a man feeding a piece of plastic wrapped candy to a baboon, and she chastised him. "Don't feed the animals!," she scolded. Although people lived in the vicinity of the falls for millennia, the British explorer David Livingston was the first European to visit the falls, naming it Victoria Fa...