After Botswana, we continued to travel east and on to Zimbabwe. We crossed over from Kazungula to the town of Victoria Falls. Named after it's neighboring cataracts, Vic Falls is a small town built around tourism and cross border trade. The Victoria Falls are a segment of the Zambezi river that eroded the basalt to create a horizontal cavern. The canyon is shared by Zambia and Zimbabwe, but for budget reasons we kept to the Zim side of things.
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| Looking down the Devil's Cataract. |
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| The main falls. |
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| Lady in the mist. |
From Vic Falls we took the night train south to Bulawayo. The train is a left over from the colonial days of Zimbabwe. Before 1980 Zimbabwe was called Rhodesia; named after John Cecil Rhodes. After the current government shook off the control of the British and rose to power the country took it's name from the ancient culture of Zimbabwe. The train continues to be imprinted with "RR" for Rhodesia Railways.
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