Victoria Falls - Zimbabwe

[MickT]

You will have to excuse the quality of these pictures, they were taken with my arm hanging out the window of a helicopter, 7D strapped around the wrist and my wife screaming "don't drop it" The pressure was immense!!

Anyway, what I wanted to show you was a little thing called devils pool on the Zambia side of the falls. The cut-out is just next to devils pool, and you can see the tourists walking (crawling) out to the edge.





This link shows the action from the Zambia side ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r1inueBSwko

[jenne]

what an awesome experience you must have had flying over those falls in a helicopter, wow! Probably even more awesome is those stupid people lol.
Those falls are immense and I like the pic you have shown to us given your trying circumstances, did you get any more?
Thanks for showing us these.

[MickT]

Thanks for dropping by Jenne. Yeah, I have some more that I will post up a bit later. It's been 12 months since we got back and I am only just going through all the pic's now

[tanz]

It looks like an amazing place to visit, I look forward to seeing more from your trip

[Scottymc]

Wowzers. just awesome.

[Dread Pirate Roberts]

Very interesting and those tourists are nuts.

[LJG]

Hahaha, that was risky business Mick!! The last time I did that it was with a P&S, and I was worried about that! What an experience to see that from above like that. It is something you will never forget!

[loose cannon]

Looks like a great camping spot!.........hmmm, maybe not.

[K1W1]

Looks like a great camping spot!.........hmmm, maybe not.

Think of the noise.
It's really interesting to see such a well photographed location from a different angle.

[timmo]

awesome shot Mick....dunno what makes people want to venture out there.
cheers
tim

[MickT]

Thanks everyone, really appreciate the comments.

The ride over the falls was awesome, and cheap!! For about $230 bucks you get a sunset cruise (drinks and food included) on the Zambezi, a 20 min helicopter ride and a walk with lions (just posted another thread on that one).

We were there for nearly four weeks, the first 2 weeks were spent volunteering working with children in settlement camps and building playground equipment, vegetable gardens and general stuff (I'll do a separate thread on that). That was without doubt the most rewarding thing I have ever done. We then went to Kruger National Park for a few days, up to Zimbabwe and then down to Cape Town before coming home.

Here are a couple more pics from the flight over Vic Falls ...






our ride