Today was a rest and recovery day before meeting up with the remainder of our Tauck tour for an evening dinner at the hotel.  Ellen and Tim took a walk to the Falls for a pre-scout while Rhonda focused on the “recovery” portion of the day.  Tomorrow is our “official” Victoria Falls visit and first safari.

a view of the lobby

Breakfast on the veranda and these two showed up…

Then it was off on our walk to scout out Victoria Falls, along the way, monkeys everywhere.

Off to the Falls.  We took the upper trail (about a 4k walk round trip) so we are only seeing a tiny portion of the Falls from here.  The whole of Victoria Falls is a mile across and 350+ feet high.  Mostly from the hotel we just see the mist rising above the falls edge.  We will be seeing it up close tomorrow on our tour.  Here is a boat below navigating one of the rapids on the way to the falls, it was running at full power to barely hover in place.  This picture is a little grainy…

Because this is the actual view (boat lower middle)

We got to the completion of this particular trail which ends at the bridge over the Zambezi River between Zimbabwe & Zambia which we crossed yesterday.  A friendly native at the trail head asked if we wanted to bungee jump off of it and we said “another time.”

On the way back we passed MANY monkeys and then these two crossed our path

A game warden who was following asked if we’d like to have a picture at a feeding area so we followed along…Bawana Tim

Then back to our room, along the way we passed a beautiful pond with many water birds but we decided not to swim,,,

Here’s a family monkeying around…

Then back to the room for a Coke on our veranda overlooking the Zambezi

Tomorrow, a rhino safari in the AM and the Falls and a boat trip in the afternoon.