Travel to South Africa In the Victoria Falls

"The angels have to stop their flight to see a show like this," said David Livingstone a sunny day in 1855 when surfing weeks after the Zambezi River was found filled with amazing waterfalls to indigenous called it Mosi-OA- Tunya, meaning "the smoke that thunders". The explorer who opened more routes in Africa and attended the colonial atrocities being committed on the continent would dignify Queen Victoria by naming one of the most impressive waterfalls that can be seen in the world along Iguazu, Angel Falls or Niagara Falls. It was not his only discovery (I mean the West) but the most sounded, which gave great fame in the then British Empire. Africa David Livingstone lived for and died for Africa, remaining even disappeared for several years until David Stanley, sent by New York Herald, she found him very sick and alone on the shores of Lake Tanganyika and gave her one of the most famous phrases in history when after a difficult search expedition I had at last face to face: "Doctor Livingstone, I presume."

This is a tribute that has certainly been one of the greatest travelers of all time. And I bring up because we were treading the earth not only the floor but also because we were witness with our eyes Victoria Falls 104 years after he first saw them. If neither the angels in the sky will not be lost, eight of us wanted to be less. Off we went.
Victoria Falls can be visited from both Zimbabwe and Zambia. Some even, who have enough time and money to be met two visas, make them from both sides to complete a 360 degrees. We, we had half a day, chose the zimbauense side, which recommends a greater number of guides and other travelers because it has a better view of them from there. It makes some sense because the waters of the Zambezi River Zambia fall, and thus one has to face the being in Zimbabwe.

LEAVE OF BOTSWANA IN CAR and entered ZIMBABWE ON FOOT
In Kasane you can hire all kinds of excursions and activities to do both in Vic Falls (Zimbabwe) and Livingstone (Zambia), but at a somewhat higher cost. We wanted to do it ourselves not only in terms of potential savings but because we are not too friends that "lead us" to sites more than the bare minimum. So we began minutes before sunrise we prepared to leave the car to the Botswana-Zimbabwe border, which was just a few kilometers from the campsite.

The cars just use them to move the Botswana border control and leave them parked, we did not want to use them in Zimbabwe, which would have to pay a higher cost of input (car registration) and be exposed to discomfort in a section 70 kilometers where police tries to make profits off of bribes to tourists. There have been many cases of corrupt police stopping vehicles to invent a false rate or a role that no one has happened and, of course, does not exist. So we were not play us for the work of "a bite", let alone be in the country only one morning. Not worth the risk.
We leave the cars well parked in Botswana checkpoint and after signing our departure we walked to the border of Zimbabwe, one of the countries with the greatest upheaval in Africa and has another one of those democracies disguised dictatorship. Under the hand of Robert Mugabe, in power since 1980 and accused of electoral fraud and genocide among other things, it can survive as a nation that has seen poverty rates increase dramatically. You could say that is a member of the Third World thanks, among other things, to the work of this man who boasts of spending millions on their private parties while its citizens are literally starving. Not long ago he came back to the public voice after exhaustively deny the cholera epidemic that was destroying the lives of thousands of people in your country and not allow NGOs to work freely. Therefore, that fence with one multicolored banner (green, yellow, red and black) Zimbabwe Flag, marked a radical change with the countries of Southern Africa who are trying to emerge rapidly. Behind that door things were very different.
A photo of Mugabe precisely decorated that house that were issuing visas. There was a price other than the input depending on the country to which he belonged. For Spaniards the cost was 30 dollars while Americans or Canadians this was much higher. I think the Russians even double. The official who attended asked us about our intentions in Zimbabwe and saw that, like most who used this border, we would make a return journey to see the Victoria Falls, as they have the luck that the best views are from his side. Then we put a sticker with the visa, hit each of passports with a postmark with the input data, and wished us luck on our short step to this heir of what the English called Southern Rhodesia in colonial times country .