Another Night At Senyati's Watering Hole

We got back from Zimbabwe in time for a light dinner and another hour or two watching elephants at the watering hole. Warning: should you go to Senyati, book 2-3 nights, since the elephants don't necessarily show up every day or night.

In the foreground here they're eating grass; interestingly, they
can trim the grass with their trunks without pulling it up by the
roots

Victoria Falls

The next morning, September 8th, we walked over to the Victoria Falls National Park and did the length of the falls, from the Zimbabwe side. This is something you have to do if you're in the neighborhood, but we had just seen Iguazu Falls in Argentina, and no other falling waters can compare with that. Victoria Falls is large and close to 300 feet in its fall, but it basically goes into a long slit of a gorge, and it is difficult to get a fuller perspective. Nonetheless, when in Africa...

Baboons never very far away

Devil's Something (there's also a Horseshoe Fall); locally, it's Vic Falls; we
referred to it as Vicki Falls

Pano

"Dr. Livingston, I presume?"

Another pano

Vicki gives the warthog plenty of clearance

Howard and Jenni didn't

Bridge, past the falls, to Zambia; or perhaps Nambia, as our esteemed President
says...

On the Zambia side, these folk have paid $100 each to sit at the edge

Natural selection in progress

Keeping the trail clean, using branch brooms

Final view

Historical display

Back in Indiana Jones' time, the Solent Flying Boat would spirit you from
Southampton to Joburg in seven days; with stops in Augusta, Cairo, Luxor,
Khartoum, and Victoria Falls, etc.

Geological display; how a crack becomes a gorge: just add
water

Outside the park, really nice handrail carving

More interesting logistics; Celtic Zambia?!

On today's menu; click to enlarge and be
amazed

Now go do that voodoo that kudu so well...

Almost close to Zulu country

Dinner And Drumming At The Boma

After the cruise--all this still on the action-packed September 7th--we were delivered to the Boma restaurant in Victoria Falls for dinner and drumming. Yes, drumming. Very African. They said. So was the food, some of it. All this in a huge round thatched building that sat perhaps a couple hundred (not including the fire marshal). Buffet style eats.

The amuse bouche...crocodile tail (chewy, fishy), impala
in a sort of orange bitters sauce, and samosas of undetermined
composition

Just like Argentina, only maybe it was warthog?

Sides

Attractive presentation

Mains; point and they grill it for you

Sauces

Next warthog

Mopani worms; eat one and you get a certificate; excellent
source of omega3 acids

 

In a side hut, the witch doctor doing whatever witch doctors do;
are there really witch doctors?

Christine and Jim drumming

Me, posing with drum; and James and Chris

Half our table

Vicki drumming

The show

Heavy on audience participation

Fun for all at the end of an exciting day