We flew from Johannesburg to Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe to see Victoria Falls. This means we have seen three of the largest waterfalls in the world: Niagara, Iguazu, and Victoria.
When you book things online, sometimes you are unsure what you will actually get. In this case we had booked a little chalet, but it was part of a bigger complex and the main lodge was a massive structure that looked exactly like you would imagine an African lodge to look like. It was just outside of the city and overlooked a watering hole on a protected game area. Since we arrived in the afternoon, we decided to go to the lodge restaurant that night versus trying to find a taxi back into town to buy groceries to make dinner at the chalet.
We got to enjoy another beautiful African sunset while we ate. A highlight was watching a giraffe walk beside the lake, perfectly reflected in the water by the sunset. Amazing! Unfortunately, also so short that we couldn´t get a picture.
The next morning we took the shuttle from the lodge to the Victoria Falls park entrance.
The map above does a pretty good job of showing how the falls go into a long canyon. All the yellow numbers points are the view points from the Zimbabwe side and we basically followed it from #1 to #16 (left to right) and the pictures below will follow that as well. If you look at the picture of the sign labelled ¨Victoria Falls at Different Times of the Year” you can see that there is a significant difference from November (low water) and May (high water). It being May, we definitely experienced the full power of the falls but because the canyon is so narrow, all the mist comes driving up over the edges making it impossible to see the full extent of the falls. It also makes it very wet! So even though this was an impressive falls, it was harder to see then Niagara and Iguazu.
Devil´s Cataract – Viewpoint 1
Attempting to look down the length of the canyon and falls from viewpoint 2. It wasn´t a bad spot but you could only see so far into the mist.
Attempting to recreate the Iguazu Falls drinking trick looking back at Devil´s Cataract. Not quite as effective with this one 
Looking to the left at Devil´s Cataract and to the right at the Main Falls.
The occasional glimpse of the Main Falls and Horseshoe Falls in the mist but hard to see.
It only got worse the further we went.
Viewpoint 15 labelled Danger Point was the worst. It was a downpour of water at that point and there were large slippery rocks there. It was weird to have it raining so hard and then look out into the distance and see blue skies and sunshine.
The last view point was out over the bridge that spans the river over the discharge from the falls called the Boiling Pot. The bridge crosses the border from Zimbabwe to Zambia and you can go bungee jumping from the bridge if you are so inclined.
Walking back to the entrance trying to dry out our rain ponchos, we noticed the effects of the mist/rain from the falls on the vegetation as it changed from green to brown. Looking back you could almost make out the line where it changed.
Walking the falls only took us about an hour so we walked into the town of Victoria Falls and explored a few of the markets before heading back to the lodge to get our bags.
The lodge had a program for the conservation of various types of vultures and they do a vulture presentation and feeding at 1pm every day. We got back in time to have lunch and see that from their deck. We learned that many vultures are endangered as well. One of the biggest reasons is poison from farmers and poachers. Farmers will put out poison to kill animals that get into their fields and the vultures eat the poisoned animals and then die. This has become less of an issue due to training of farmers to not use poisons. However, poachers will intentionally put out poisoned bait to intentionally kill vultures. Vultures are attracted to poacher´s kills and the rangers watch out for that. Vultures and trained dogs are the best way for rangers to find poachers and the poachers know this.
After that we gathered our bags and took the shuttle back to the park entrance which is right by the bridge and the border. We had read that the view of the Boiling Pot is best from the bridge so we decided to hike across the border on the bridge.
It was a very short stop in Zimbabwe but worth a visit.