Colman and Peter took us to the air strip to await the arrival of our shuttle plane. Once it landed, we waited for the engine to stop before the co-piolet got out to “check us in” which consisted of confirming our names and giving us our tickets. The plane was a small Cessna that seated about 12 passengers. The flight was about 20 minutes to Kruger International Airport. From there once we were quickly ushered to the check in, security and gate for our next flight to Zambia which would be boarding soon. That flight was on a slightly bigger jet. Took just short of two hours. Once in Zambia and we cleared passport control and immigration, we were met and taken to the office for the helicopter trip over Victoria Falls and then the drop off at our hotel, the Royal Chundu River Lodge. The helicopter flight was about 30 minutes, the views of the falls were spectacular. I was not expecting the falls come into a narrow gorge. They throw up a mist over the falls from the rush of water down to the gorge below. You can understand from the mist, the local name for the falls “Mosi-Oa-Tunya” The smoke that thunders. The pilot made a couple of passes over the falls and then headed upriver to our lodge. We had lunch and then were taken to our room. Once our bags arrived we put on bathing suites and took a dip in the pool!
At 5:30 we took a river cruise on the Zambezi. It was supposed to be a sunset cruise, but the clouds did not cooperate, but still got some nice pics of the sun setting. It started to rain so we headed back to the lodge for dinner at 8! Dinner was very good. But we were tired and retired to our room at 9:00 for a night’s rest.
