Botswana to Zambia

We left Chobe River Lodge around 9 am and rather quickly (for 25 people) made our way through Botswana immigration and then Zambian immigration. Once we crossed the Zambezi river into Zambia we were again surrounded by people peddling their wooden crafts and bowls. We all bought a few things and when I was getting on the bus, a man asked if I would trade my water bottle for something at his stand. Since we have an abundance of water bottles, Charles gave him our blue Wharton water bottle and we got to choose out a nice, small wooden bowl. Hannah was also asked if she would trade her headband (she wasn't interested) and others who had any American swag items also made some trades. Had we known this ahead of time I would have brought more American-labeled items!

We arrived just about an hour after the Zambia border at our hotel called the Zambezi Sun Hotel. The Hotel is located walking distance from Victoria Falls so we can come and go with our hotel passes as many times as want.

Victoria Falls is a World Heritage Site and are the 2nd tallest Falls in the world (behind Angel Falls). There are numerous trails to take and today we took the photographic trails (a short trail) and then the Knife Bridge trail which takes you right along the rim of the falls. Along the rim, you get quite wet as the mist from the falls is everywhere. At one point, you cross this metal bridge and when you turn around there is a double rainbow formed from the mist and the sun. Beautiful. 

At the end of the trail you can see a steel bridge that connects Zambia to Zimbabwe. From this bridge people were bungee jumping which is quite a sight to see. We heard that a few weeks ago a woman almost died bungee jumping off this bridge since her rope broke and she crashed into the water below. She ended up breaking tons of bones but luckily made it out alive. No one on our trip decided to risk it and try this especially after hearing this story!

For dinner, we all met at a restaurant on the premises and had, by everyone's agreement, the worst service in Africa. We ordered pizzas and after a while the waiter came back and said they were short on pizza. We asked how many they had and he said, "Well, we have no pizzas." It is quite funny writing about it later. So, we re-ordered and then a while later the waiter came back and said they only had 1 burger left. Ha!  We all placed all final meal orders and eventually they brought our salads but didn't give us any utensils. When we asked for some none appeared. We kept asking. Finally, we got some little by little...perhaps they were washing them? This place was trying hard to be a good restaurant but were missing quite a few of the basics! We decided that the next night we would not return to this place!