During the next day 10th May at 6:30am in the morning, we saw a hippo majestically sprawling in the compound, eating plants. We saw the fall in the sunlight and in the full moonlight, and on both the occasions, we saw the rainbows, the fall's crowning glory. The daytime rainbow was splendid in its riot of seven colours and the moon-time rainbow was brilliantly white. They bring home the tremendous glory of All Mighty Nature and revel the comparative insignificance of us. When were fully soaked in its heavenly spray, we felt the presence of the All Mighty around us.There after we had an exciting Rhino Safari in the nearby Mosi-Oa-Tunya National Park, Zambia. This park is near the upper Zambezi river, includes the falls and is 12km up the river. This reserve is full of games, where we saw zebras, giraffes, buffalos, impalas, bush pigs, and kudus, and were even lucky, according to our guide and driver, to see one of its five white rhinos. Unluckily, the elephants kept on hiding.
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In addition to some 44 varieties of games, you can also view, in this park, a wide variety of flora and birds. There is also the site of the first settlement in the falls area. F. J. Clarke, 6km upstream from the falls, established it in 1938. Due to malaria, it moved to Livingstone town, leaving behind only the graves of early settlers. This river is full of hippopotamuses and crocodiles. We saw plenty of families of hippos with wide-open mouths and a variety of crocodiles and their babies. The boat driver-cum guide had with him a big fat book on birds and their nests. Often he would point out to us a variety of birds and their nests and would take out the appropriate pages from the book and give us for reading them. Indeed, he led us to becoming bird-lovers. Just before the sunset, the boatman laid the anchor, and spread a variety of refreshments with liquor. In our boat, in addition to us, we had only a couple on honeymoons and all of us had a wonderful time to remember foreverBest Way To Get Around:
Places: Zambia. Activities: hiking/trekking, horseback-riding, jungle exploration, bungee-jumping, jungle safari.
They are the world's most spectacular plunges of the 2km wide Zambezi river, which drops over 100 mts. (330 feet) into steeply walled gorge. For its close-up look, one of the best spot is at Knifepoint, reached by crossing a footbridge through swirling clouds of spray to a cliff which is an island in the river. From here, you can see the Boiling Pot where the river turns and heads down the Batoka Gorge (First Gorge) and the yawning abyss below the Zambezi Bridge -- carrying a railway line and joining Zambia with Zimbabwe.