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Here comes the Photo Diary from Victoria Falls, a follow up the more informative post Travel to Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe and Zambia. All these photos are from the trip I had with my fiance, Eleyce, through Southern Africa where we spent approximately a week around the Victoria Falls in both Zambia and Zimbabwe.
Since the photos are more interesting than the actual story, I chose not to write more here but rather write a little description with some of the pictures.
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This is the story about Matt Harding, who’s 5 minute travel video has been viewed by twenty five million people on YouTube, and is impossible not to love. As an Africa Travel Blog I should also mention that during these 5 rich minutes he manage to feature eight African travel destinations which include Zanzibar, Mali, Madagascar (x2), Zambia, Morocco and South Africa (x2). It took him 14 months to create the video, and he visited 42 countries all over the world in it’s making.
It’s not much more to say other than: “Please watch this video”. It gave me the goosebumps and made my fiance cry (!). And I wish to say “thank you” to the two South African guys who walked into the store where I work yesterday and showed this video to me. I have watched it countless times since then.
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One of my favorite travel moments from Africa was a self drive safari in Etosha National Park in Namibia with my girlfriend, Eleyce. At that time we had been traveling around Southern Africa in “public” overstuffed minibuses for several weeks, so we decided that we deserved our own car for the safari. I still remember the fat smiles on our faces as we sat down in our rented Toyota Yaris. Not exactly a Land Rover like most of the other tourists, but to us the Yaris was a highly appreciated luxury!
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Garden Route offers everything from cute, little beach towns, to world class surfs and world class bungee jumping. I have already mentioned my road trip along the Garden Route, so here I will continue with sharing pictures and thoughts about one specific adventure this trip included: The World’s Highest Commercial Bungee Jump!
So we were on our way, driving, pretending to be all cool about it, while at the same time being extremely excited. I couldn’t tell if I was scared or not, but I was definitely not feeling normal. We got there, went on to the scale, had are weight written on our wrist in a bold, fat print (no place to be self conscious), and were strapped up in some sort of harness. I still wonder what this harness was for. Honestly I think it was just a thing they did to make us feel safe and protected. I can’t remember they ever strapped the harness into anything. Other than a tiny little rope to the “foot loop” during the jump. Anyways, after these preparations they led us out onto the bridge (see pictures).
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Traveling along the Garden Route between Cape Town and Jeffrey’s Bay can be a very relaxing, beautiful and scenic beach town vacation. Or it can be an adrenalin filled, active and adventurous road trip. For me it was both, with surfing and bungee jumping in between the laid back beach days. Me and my friend, Michael, rented an old (I mean OLD) Mercedes Benz, and hit the roads. Cruising down the highways, with our surfboards tightly tied to the brand new roof rack, we cruised towards the surfs and small towns along the southern tip of Africa’s coast.
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So I wrote this big long boring post about the start of our trip and where we wanted to stay and the time we touched down etc. I then re-read it and nearly fell asleep. If our trip of a lifetime (so far) has turned into a way to get some good shut eye then I have serious problems – and my writing ability needs a lot of work. So, instead here is a snapshot of what I want to get from this African experience and a bit of insight into answering the question that everyone keeps asking – why Africa? I hope to look back on this post the same time next year and know I got this much out of it and more, I also want to be able to answer the annoying question above with more fervor and passion than I can now. If the Africa bug bites me it better leave a bloody big scar!
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View over Cape Town and Lions Head from Table Mountain
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I just wanted to let you all know that each of you contributed to the great fact that The Africa Travel Blog exceeded one thousand unique visitors during it’s first active month! This is a great achievement and the honor is shared with all the readers who frequent the blog! Thank you!
And there are more good news. Because of the great interest in the Africa Travel Blog, I have decided to expand it with a few extra features, which some of you already know about:
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The decision has been made. The destination will be Kenya, Uganda and Rwanda. After some good advice on my first post, and reading through forums and guide books, I have chosen to go for new experiences in Uganda and Rwanda, rather than the typical beach vacation in Zanzibar. This will be the trip of my life, and I want it to be different.
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