Victoria Falls
Zimbabwe
May 28, 2024
Hello.
Welcome to the Lookout Café.
The Café seats 260 visitors and is open for breakfast, lunch, snacks, and dinner.
The restaurant sits on the edge of a rim high above the Batoka Gorge. The Gorge lies below Victoria Falls.
Carved by the Zambezi River, the Batoka Gorge runs more than 120 km (75 mi) long with vertical walls that are on average four hundred feet high.
Victoria Falls
Town of Victoria Falls
Reepublic of Zimbabwe
May 28, 2024
Hello,
Here are some facts about Victoria Falls: *
1. Victoria Falls is the largest waterfall in the world
Victoria Falls is neither the widest nor highest waterfall in the world, but it’s the world’s largest sheet of falling water. It is twice the height of North America’s Niagara Falls, and is only rivalled by Iguazu Falls in South America. It is 108m tall (354 ft) and 1708m wide (5604 ft).
Zambezi River
Victoria Falls Town
Republic of Zimbabwe
May 27, 2024
Hello,
Below are just a very few details and highlights of the course of the Zambezi.
The fourth longest river in Africa travels through five countries: Zambia, Angola, Zimbabwe, Botswana and Mozambique.
The Zambezi rises in a black, marshy dambo (shallow wetland) in dense, North-Western Province, Zambia, at about 1,524 meters (5,000 ft) above sea level.
The river flows to the southwest into Angola for about 240 km (150 mi), then is joined by sizeable tributaries such as the Luena and the Chifumage flowing from highlands to the north-west. Zambezi turns south where it re-enters Zambia.
Hwange Safari Lodge
Hwange National Park
The Republic of Zimbabwe
May 24, 2024
Hello
The Game Drive this afternoon is a feast for the eyes.
(Game Drive: A multi-hour excursion in a four-wheel drive vehicle in search of wildlife or game.)
One carnivore today.
The Martial Eagle (Polemaetus bellicosus!)
Grazers and browsers.
Springbok. (Antidorcas marsupialis)
Kudu. (Tragelaphus strepsiceros)
Zebra. Specifically, Plains Zebra. (Equus quagga)
Hippopotamus. Hippopotamus amphibius.
Elephants. African Bush Elephant. (Loxodonta Africana)
Hwange Safari Lodge
Hwange National Park
Republic of Zimbabwe
May 23, 2024
“There’s no better place to be.”
So spoke Ingrid, a fellow traveler who I met on the grounds of the Hwange Safari Lodge. We chatted for a moment. Apparently, Ingrid is a digital nomad. She sits for hours at one of the shaded tables on the expansive lawn of the lodge, head bent over computer.
Me? I’m waiting for my sandwich, salad and coffee. The very young and cheerful waitress serves an attractive meal. French press!
At dawn this morning I encounter my first game in southern Africa. A troop of baboons scurry across a distant section of the lawn..........
