The ‘guided’ part of our Africa trip (the part where a travel agent booked everything for us) started with a flight from Windhoek, Namibia to Victoria Falls via Maun Botswana.<\/p>\n
We took the smallish propeller plane (2 seats per row, 12 or 14 rows) to Botswana (an airport we’d see at the end of our safari) and then on to Victoria Falls.<\/p>\n
Since the travel agent booked all of this for us, we hadn’t paid much attention to this part of the trip.\u00a0 Imagine our surprise when we’re filling out the arrival card in the airport that we were in Zimbabwe!\u00a0 Who knew?<\/p>\n
We were met by a handler (arranged again by our agent) who guided us through the entry process and then drove us to the Zimbabwe\/Zambia border – where we were then met by our Zambian handler.\u00a0 This is not only the first trip where I’ve used a travel agent, but it’s now the first trip where we’ve had\u00a0our own fixers!<\/p>\n
Our Zambian driver took us all the way in to our stupidly nice hotel the Royal Livingstone.\u00a0 This 5-star hotel is located just off of the falls (you can easily see the mist and hear the falls from the lawns of the hotel).\u00a0 We spent the rest of the afternoon checking out the falls – oh, after high tea that is.<\/p>\n
Victoria Falls really is impressive and it’s the first of the world’s 7 wonders that I’ve seen.<\/p>\n
We got soaked by the mist whilst walking along the pathways checking out the overlook spots.<\/p>\n
That night we skipped dinner first because we had the ridiculous high tea and second because we didn’t feel we had the attire to join the rest of the diners.<\/p>\n
We did, however, enjoy a sunset drink along the Zambezi river.<\/p>\n
The following morning (after a quick last check of the falls) we were again picked up by our handler and we were off on our safari adventure.\u00a0 But that’s for another post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The ‘guided’ part of our Africa trip (the part where a travel agent booked everything for us) started with a flight from Windhoek, Namibia to Victoria Falls via Maun Botswana. We took the smallish propeller plane (2 seats per row, 12 or 14 rows) to Botswana (an airport we’d see at the end of our … <\/p>\n