Tongabezi, Zambia - Johannesburg, South Africa - Windhoek, Namibia

Oh another early morning wakeup call, except this time it’s not a call but Given coming down and telling us it’s time to get up. This morning we are being picked up for a tour, at 7:30am, of the falls from the Zimbabwe side and then being taken to the Victoria Falls airport for our flight to Johannesburg and then our connecting flight to Windhoek, Namibia.

Thunderstorm over Johannesburg on our flight to Namibia

Read the rest of this post »

Tongabezi - Victoria Falls

We woke up this morning to the sound of Hippos grunting and snorting in the river just in front of our room.

Hippos in the river

 No sign off the monkeys so we headed off for breakfast on the deck overlooking the Zambezi. There was a lovely buffet or a full cooked meal. We settled for some juice, coffee and a muffin.

Read the rest of this post »

Johannesburg to Livingstone and Tongabezi

 Okay, the best laid plans of mice and men eh! We'd planned our getaway this morning and had it all figured out, we'd arranged to leave our two large bags at the hotel and only take our two small carry on bags, after checking them in we would walk over to the terminal, check in and then stroll back for a leisurely breakfast and then back to the terminal for departure. What fools we are, LOL.

First off it took much longer than we thought to condense everything down to two small bags, there was an issue with the bill, so our intention to get to check in 2 hours early was cut to 1 hour. Once we got there the check in at the airport was slow with only one check-in counter open for international flights but finally we were checked and the only thing left to do was to get some US Currency.

Read the rest of this post »