What a fantastic nights sleep in our new tent! It rained most of the night so we were certainly glad to be more civilised campers. We woke up to monkeys running all over the grass and playing. A lot of the monkeys had babies hanging from the tummys, and they were only a couple feet away from us.

We had breakfast at the truck and then Phoebe, Nicole and I went on our day adventure into Zimbabwe. It was a bit of a daunting experience as we didn't really have any idea where we were going or how long a walk it would be. We took a taxi to the Zambian border, and got out exit passport stamp quite quickly but then it was a long walk to the Zimbabwe border. We were in no mans land for a good 15mins and crossed the Victoria Falls Bridge, this was out first glance of the Falls and the gorge. It was spectacular.

They are longer than Niagra Falls, and from Zimbabwe you can walk 1.2km looking across to them but it Zambia you only see 400 metres of falls. The length in total is 1.7km so it certainly was worth making the day trip across the border, others took helicopter flights over so they could see them from above but after speaking to Doug and Verginia they were disappointed in the flight.

When we finally reached the Zimbabwe border it didn't take that long to get our Visas and then the walk to the falls was only 5 minutes. Our whole journey there wasn't what I expected, it was very run down abd there was no sign of any tourists. With Victoria Falls being one of the 7 Natural Wonders of the World the surrounding area is very much untouched. The falls occur when the Zambezi River is 1688m wide, with the highest fall being 108m. It's phenomenal, an average of 550 million litres of water a minute tumbles over the lip of the falls and this can reach 750 million litres at a peak flood.

Victoria Falls is called 'the smoke that thunders' when it's translated from the local language. The visitors site was more what I expected, which had a afe and gift shop etc. We were totally blown away with the walk looking over to the falls. The spray, mist and sound that came from the gorge was crazy. I was so excited that I was actually at Victoria Falls, and I went a bit crazy with the camera :) The last view point on the 1.2km walk was the Danger Point, up until now all the view points had spikey bushes to stop you going any further. The danger point had no barriers etc and you could just walk as close to the edge as you wanted. Danger point was a good 300m long so plenty space and I got photos sitting on the edge with my feet dangling over the edge with Phoebe.

The heat was pretty intense and after the walk we were truely in need of water and lunch. As we werent allowed to go out of the visitors area and re enter we decided to have lunch at the cafe. We took a final walk to the Devils Cataract before heading out of the tourist attraction an back into the local environment.

Last night in the bar, I was speaking to the owner of The Waterfront and he advised that we take a walk to The Victoria Falls Hotel in Zimbabwe. We were quickly running out of time by this point as we had to be back to our campsite for 4.15pm to go on the Zambezi Sunset Cruise.

However we were determined to visit this colonial hotel and started walking in the direction Graham had told us :) It was basically through the bush, I wouldn't even say there was a path. We passed loads of warthogs with young which was quite cool and kept and surprisingly we arrived at the back gates of the hotel. It was a massive white hotel, which had gorgeous green lawns with a view right down the gorge to Victoria Falls Bridge with the falls behind. Absolutely stunning. It really felt like you were in a hotel in England when we went for a walk, except hotels in England don't have a random warthog run across the lawn right infront of the hotel. A wee reminder This Is Africa - TIA. After having a nosey inside the hotel and visiting the shop for some postcards, we didn't have much time to get back to the camp never mind stop and have a drink out on the patio. We debated whether or not to miss the cruise and stay for a drink but since we had paid for the cruise we decided against it.

It was a fast walk back to the border crossings and then get a taxi back to the camp. The taxi we got was very dodgy, the handles had all fallen off, the seats were ripped, i would actually say it was a dump on wheels or maybe a dump that moved, as i couldnt guarantee what the wheels were like. But on the bright side there was more space that in the Kenyan Matau's.

We all needed to shower and change before the sunset cruise. Dinner and drinks were all included so basically it was another African style booze cruise. It was a fairwell night to 6 of our 'African Travel Friends' before they head home tomorrow and what a night it was!!!

The Zambezi is stunning, full of hippos and birds everywhere. Every single one of us were all on good form, the drinks were flowing and the food was good. Phoebe and I attempted to reinact the scene from the Titanic at the front of the boat, Greg was on top of the bar, our new driver Adrian was wild and fantastic fun, everyone was having a blast!!!! The sunset was stunning, and I got some pretty cool photos too :) By the time we docked back at camp, our group were all pretty boozy. We were met by the rest of our group who decided not to come and have dinner at the restaurant, then it was group photo time after spending over 2 weeks together.

"What a night!" xxx