Of elephants, running, rapids and bikes

  posted by Amanda on 2010.08.29, under Amanda's Letter from Zim 29th The sleepy hamlet that is Victoria Falls town came alive this weekend as several hundred athletes and hangers-on descended for the annual marathon.  People from all over the world, all shapes and sizes, and athletic capa See more details

Mosi-oa-Tunya

What can one say about something that is so huge, so breathtaking, so magnificent that it really does have to be seen to be appreciated? And each time one visits the Falls, they are different. The change of seasons during the course of the year dramatically affects the experience one has. When See more details

Business in the Falls region

  The business of the Falls area is not all tourism. The early inhabitants were hunters and traders have visited the area since the beginning of man's evolution. Recent developments have however focused on tourism and it is no co-incidence that after Livingstone saw the Falls in 1855 and repo See more details

The Environment

  Located on the Zambezi River, about 621 miles from its source, the Victoria Falls are one of World's best-known geographical features and tourist attractions. With a width of 5600 feet and an average depth of about 328 feet, they form the biggest single curtain of falling water in the world See more details

Adventure beckons

Victoria Falls used to be a three day destination.   Now you can spend a month and still only have had time to play golf on the Gary Player designed course just once.   White water rafting through deep unspoilt gorges; helicopter rides through the smoke of the Falls; bungie jumping off a pie See more details

Planes and boats and trains.

The Victoria Falls area has been inhabited, off and on, for over three million years.  The availability of constant water and places of refuge must have made the Gorges very attractive to Homo erectus who split the tough basalt rock into hand-axes and cleavers. Remnants of their work is still See more details

Hotels and places to stay

When George Westbeech established himself at Pandamatenga in 1871, the majority of visitors to the area were hunters, missionaries and traders. However, tourists were not far behind with over fifty European travelers visiting in 1874/75.   The railway line from Cape Town reached Bulawayo in 189 See more details

Victoria Falls, one of the Natural Wonders of the World

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Hotels and places to stay
When George Westbeech established himself at Pandamatenga in 1871, the majority of visitors to the...
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Business in the Falls region
  The business of the Falls area is not all tourism. The early inhabitants were hunters and trad...
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Chronology of the Victoria Falls
250-500,000 years ago - Early Man arrived just in time to see the formation of the first waterfa...
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What to Expect When Visiting Africa for the First Time
In terms of the people in Africa, the Victoria Falls Hotel and Little Makalolo Camp had extremely fr...