Day 6, 10 July 2012, Victoria Falls, Zambia - Wow. Small word - but a huge reaction. We cabbed to Victoria Falls this morning - a snappy 40,000 Kwachas. (Qua-char) - or roughly $8. Zambia has decided in the last month or so that there is no point having a currency if everyone uses USD - so now many things have to be paid for in local Kwachas - which meant some snappy and possibly shady foreign exchange dealing when we had to come up with 200,000 kwachas at the admission hut. (The gentleman in charge sent us to one of the many stalls at the entrance to the Falls - James managed to get an elephant necklace out of the transaction - our first souvenir purchase thus far). The great tax base expansion continues unabated - 100,000 kw for non-locals, 7,000 kw for locals. HOWEVER, the Falls were mind blowing - we rented a couple of rain ponchos and you can see us in all our sartorial splendour in today's album. It was like walking through God's shower room - rainbows were everywhere and the roar of Mosi-o-Tunya ("the smoke that thunders") was all encompassing. The benefits of a water proof (shock proof, freeze proof, dust proof = Hardie proof) camera came to the fore. 'Nuff said. Words can't describe what we saw - the photos will just have to do the job for us whilst we finish a leetle bottle of duty free Bacardi. Yes, it is a hard life Not Being Grownups.
PS. Our cabbie stopped at the side of the road on the drive back to town to point out some large grey rocks we hadn't noticed. Then they started moving, flapping their big grey ears and pointing tusks in the air - more than a dozen elephants with a bull at the front just out for a Zambian stroll. Remember - unless you are the lead elephant - the view never changes.