Amazing Victoria Falls
Throughout the second half of April 3,000 cubic metres of water plunge over Victoria Falls every second. After crashing on the precipice pretty much everything water needs at right angles down a steep gorge and then has to travel through a gap only 110 metres wide to get to the following gorge.
This product of steep sided gorges downstream from Victoria Falls forms a zig-zag pattern for most kilometers. Geologists have worked out that the past thousands of years the road with the waterfall has moved backwards occupying different precipices over the gorge, and it is still slowly retreating.
Just about the most heart stopping steps you can take is to take a white water river rafting trip down this network of gorges. Local plumber to do it is from August to January – at low water – when your epic journey starts at Rapid 1 slightly below the waterfall which you’ll hear roaring behind you. More than a full day, this whitewater run takes you through 21 rapids within an inflatable raft steered with a muscular expert wielding two mighty oars. He has to judge the procedure for each rapid precisely, of course, if he is doing you disappear in to the roaring foaming maelstrom of water and emerge right way up a couple of seconds later. If he gets it wrong the raft flips, and you either grab the rope and remain with the raft or have a “swim” until you’re pulled out downstream.
