Amazing motorcycle adventures in Southern Africa: 11/01/2011

Wednesday, 30 November 2011

Day4 - Leg3 - Bots+Zim - More Vic Falls from air

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Awesome awesome - Vic fallsome. Let the pictures speak for themselves.

Early morning sun catching the Zambezi river

Cauldron of water and rock

The bridge we were about to go bungi jumping off when we land - it looks quite small here

Another view of the bridge

Rainbow

Tuesday, 29 November 2011

Day4 - Leg2 - Bots+Zim - Vic Falls from air

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The first group comes back into the heliport

Nice chopper - Bell

Now its our turn

Looking back at the Heliport main building

Looking upstream over the golf course

Elephant Hills

Downstream looking at the plume the falls generates

Looking down - elephant spotting (didn't see any)

The falls

Monday, 28 November 2011

Day4 - Leg1 - Bots+Zim - Vic Falls Helicopter

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Who's idea was it to get up at 5am after going to bed at 2am? Oh yes, we planned this over lunch the day before. So amazingly everyone made it onto the bus and down to the heliport, some still pickled, others rather hungover. But this was going to be no ordinary day for most of us. We start off with a helicopter ride over the falls and then off to do a bungi jump off the Vic Falls 101m bridge into the gorge. We were about to see from the air, just how high this would be. After all that, a nice motobike ride down to Bulawayo some 400km away.

We were the first to arrive as the heliport opened

Surprisingly all of us made it to the 5:30am meeting point

An African Air/Heliport

Map of the Falls explaining what we'll see

The first four head out to board the chopper

All on-board and ready to roll

The cloud in the background is the plume of moisture from the Vic Falls thundering over

Chopper arriving back

Saturday, 26 November 2011

Day3 - Leg12 - Bots+Zim - Vic all Fall down

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The Boyz went out and were in the mood for fun that night. No Shoestrings attached. We met everyone there at one stage of the evening or the other. Vaalie ended up volunteering to have all his hair cut off after a long trek through Africa, Jono ended up dancing on the bar counter and then all ended up at a club in town after this place closed. All I remember of the evening was clutching to the back of a landrover with 25 other people as we drove into town, after that it's a blurr...

Hair all coming off in the bar

Chatting to all

More jokes

We met this chap who has been travelling for years

J dancing on the barcounter

Team pic

Friday, 25 November 2011

Day3 - Leg11 - Bots+Zim - Dexters Global Village

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We went out that night down to the local Shoestrings backpackers pub, and found Dexterous Dexter, who is an artist and is concerned as we all are about the state of the world.

As a rasta man, Dexter decided to try and show by way of an art-work, how a miniture world could live in peace and harmony. So 6 years ago Dexter set about building this mini "world" out of wire and cloth and other things. It all works by turning a handle on the side which mechanically drives people to do things like hoe their land, chop wood, gather crops, wave, dance, even make love, etc. It is split into countries. The work is absolutely amazing to see. If you are in Vic Falls look Dexter up - you will not be disappointed! (Apologies - these pictures do not show nearly enough detail and it was dark...)

Dexter showing us his masterpiece

Vaalie turning the handle and controlling the world!

You have to see it close up to believe it all

All of us getting the full explanation

Thursday, 24 November 2011

Day3 - Leg10 - Bots+Zim - Zambezi Crocodiles

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The sun had almost set, but that's probably the best time, because that is when the animal rush hour begins. Many of them head back to where they spend the night and we got a chance to see this massive Crocodile casually swim back upstream to it's destination. It was massive, at least 3 or 4 metres long, possibly longer, it is difficult to tell when they are in the water.

We also saw some more Hippo's on their way home. And then as fast as it had begun, it was all over and we were off back to the jetty to dock. What a great way to spend some time looking at all the African wonders in such an awesome setting.