One thing i love about being an Internet Tourist is that i can be on one side of the world and in a flash be on the other side. When i can i will add the website url of the place i visit. All though a lot of times i will visit numerous website to get the whole picture of what i'm visiting. Sometimes as i travel i'll even stop and bring up some of the more Posh Hotels and resorts...places that id never be able to afford (600-$1000 night rooms) even if i was their in person. Maybe one time ill post something about the hotels/resorts that i really like. Anywho...i just went to a place that i once saw a picture of a long time ago.
Victoria Falls is its name. I had once seen a picture of some people swimming in a place called Devils Pool. It is in Zimbabwe, Africa. At the time the big debate was if the picture were real or fake. Personally i didn't care if it was real or fake because it freaked me out. Yes, i get queasy just looking at pictures of heights. LOL but i'm a glutton for punishment and i really REALLY want to go take a look at the new building in Dubai. There is even a cool youtube vid out there of some guy standing on the very tippy top of the building. Eeew im getting woozy just thinking about it. GAA!! Ok Ok back to Africa....
When i started for Victoria Falls I Googled, Yahoo'd, and Bing'd it. Im not one to take the word and posts of just one site/search engine. Trust me not all search engines are the same. So off i went on a wonderful trip. I started by visiting Victoria Falls the town. Its on the Zimbabwe side of the Falls and Livingstone town is on the Zambia side. Livingstone was named after the famous David Livingstone who in 1855 was the very first European to see the falls. Some of the pictures are just awe inspiring. Supposedly this is one of Seven Wonders of the World, but than it all depends on where you look and who you ask. Over 132,275 gallons of water go over the Falls in a minute. The spray that is created by that amount of water shoots all the way up to 1300 ft, sometimes even higher. The spray can be seen 30 miles away.
The Devils pool, oh my gosh!! Nice blue water....TUMBLING AND CRASHING over the cliff, to drop 338ft to a rocky bottom. WOW!! I'm not sure if you could get me into that pool. Take a look at some of the pictures. Would you? Yes there are Crocs and Hippos in the river, BUT even they aren't stupid enough to get this close to the Falls. So it is fairly safe. I think. Welllll that is why im here, safe, the most dangerous thing around here is my sleeping dog and that would be tripping over him and breaking a leg.
As i visit these places i can be sucked into the History of the region also. I learned about the natives and their lives before the Falls became so popular. Sometimes ill get carried away and wind up reading and watching vids of the surrounding country. Sometimes my trips take a few minutes to hours, even days. Some i keep going back to over and over and over again.
Well happy travels everyone.
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