Cape Town to Victoria Falls Tour- Tamzyn’s Travel Diary Part 8

Cape Town to Victoria Falls Tour- Tamzyn’s Travel Diary Part 8 by Tamzyn

Filed under: East Africa, Southern Africa, Tamzyn's Tour Diary, Tours, Travellers Tales on April 11th, 2011

Epic, wonderful, spectacular – words that fall frighteningly short of what the feeling of wanderlust accomplished presents…

Read on for the final tale of Tamzyn’s 21 day Cape Town to Vic Falls overland trip.

Zimbabwe campsite

Day 22: Victoria Falls

Today is my last day at Victoria Falls and reaching the end of my Overlanding Africa trip is very disheartening. I keep thinking that this tour cannot get any more exciting, any more wonderful or any more spectacular and then I wake up and something else comes along to prove me wrong!

An overlanding trip is absolutely the greatest African adventure!

Vic Falls Gorge Swing

Cliff-Diving Head First

We are going out with a bang and opted for the many hair-raising extreme activities on offer around Victoria Falls.
There is so much for us to choose from: lion walks, elephant back safaris, gorge swinging, bungee jumping, grade 5 white water rafting, and helicopter flights over the falls.

In the end we decide to toss our logic out the window and opt for the gorge swing, zip-line and flying fox package; or as was eloquently put by one of my overlanding tour buddies “to jump head first off three platforms down a bottomless gorge for no other reason than to scare ourselves sh##less”!

Flying Fox

The gorge swing is the highlight of the day! We look like a group of mentally insane patients; climbing up onto our hands before being pushed off the platform and diving 70 metres head first, along the cliff face before swinging out above the furious brown waters of the Zambezi River below.

Victoria Falls

Victoria Falls Park

After all that monumental adventure we have the afternoon left to walk along the length of the roaring white waters of Victoria Falls and appreciate the different viewpoints of Mosi-oa-Tunya: The Smoke that Thunders.

The seemingly endless curtain of water gushes with immense power and force rushing down the side of the steep chasm at over 545 million litres per minute and sending a towering cloud of spray spiralling up into the air.

We are so dumbstruck by the sight of Victoria Falls, we don’t even notice that we are all soaked from head to toe in the shower of spray.

Booze Cruise Boys Group Photo

Day 23: It’s Hard to Say Goodbye

It’s a sad and difficult farewell to my new found friends and the overlanding truck, the flight from the airport marks the end of my awesome adventure filled overland journey from Cape Town to Victoria Falls.

I saw some fantastic sights, experienced and explored more of Africa than I could have ever dreamed of and met inspiring and friendly locals – as well as making a bunch of new friends and amazing memories. These have only fed my wanderlust for overland trips through Africa.

To find out more about overland tour trips in Africa contact the OverlandingAfrica team or post your comments below.

You can also check out the Cape Town to Victoria Falls Tour Itinerary and the next available Overlanding tour dates.

Tags: Africa, africa budget travel, africa overland trips, Botswana Chobe National Park, gorge swinging, Mopane Worms, Mosi-oa-Tunya, Overlanding, victoria falls, wunderlust, Zimbabwe

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