Is Victoria Falls Worth Visiting in the Rainy Season
Reposted March 1 2021 Tagged: Zimbabwe
Visiting Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe during the wet season as I travelled from Cairo to Cape Town, overland back in 2015/2016.
The Zambezi is the 4th longest river in Africa at 2574km.
It rises in Zambia, flows thru Angola and the borders of Namibia and Botswana, back into Zambia and thunders down into Zimbabwe at Victoria Falls and thru Mozambique before emptying into the Indian Ocean.
David Livingstone is believed to be the first white person to have seen the falls and they are named in honour of Queen Victoria but the local name is still widely used: Mosi-oa-Tunya or "The Smoke That Thunders".
It rises in Zambia, flows thru Angola and the borders of Namibia and Botswana, back into Zambia and thunders down into Zimbabwe at Victoria Falls and thru Mozambique before emptying into the Indian Ocean.
David Livingstone is believed to be the first white person to have seen the falls and they are named in honour of Queen Victoria but the local name is still widely used: Mosi-oa-Tunya or "The Smoke That Thunders".
The wet season in the catchment area runs from November to March but the falls are over 1000km from the source so it is not until April that water is thundering over the Falls at more than 5000m3/sec.
If you want to get some photos where the views are not obliterated by million upon million droplets of water, aka, SPRAY, don't come between say February and July. Sure you can use a GO-PRO but it won't change the view.
If you want to get some photos where the views are not obliterated by million upon million droplets of water, aka, SPRAY, don't come between say February and July. Sure you can use a GO-PRO but it won't change the view.
The Town of Victoria Falls on the Zimbabwe side, is purpose-built and the falls are a short walk from town.
Victoria Falls are 16km from the town of Livingstone, on the Zambian side.
I finally got to backpack Victoria Falls from the Zambia side in the dry season in 2023
Victoria Falls are 16km from the town of Livingstone, on the Zambian side.
I finally got to backpack Victoria Falls from the Zambia side in the dry season in 2023
This post has been rewritten for Nomadic Backpacker and is based on my travels in Africa in 2015/2016
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