Some local entertainment as we welcome eight new members to our group of 12. They will be traveling with us until we reach Cape Town, South Africa. (Nov. 1, 2024)
Media Category: Africa 2024 - Zimbabwe
Dinner at Marula Cafe, Tapas and Cocktails in the City of Victoria Falls. From left: Me, Wadey, Joyce, Daniela, Jill and Julia. (Nov. 1, 2024)
Sharing some delicious tacos at the Marula Cafe in the City of Victoria Falls. That’s Daniela and Jill. (Nov. 1, 2024)
The gated Victoria Falls Wildlife Trust, a wildlife rescue, rehabilitation service and more in Zimbabwe. (Nov. 2, 2024)
Mwenulusi, our guide at the Victoria Falls Wildlife Trust in Zimbabwe, shows one of the items communities can use to deter lions. It is this vuvuzela. It’s is a plastic horn commonly, used at sporting events, is known for its loud, raucous sound that lions do not like to hear. He also mentioned that chili pepper helps to keep elephants away, ping pong balls of it tend to send them away to never to return. (Nov. 2, 2024)
Along with rescuing and rehabilitating animals, the Victoria Falls Wildlife Trust in Zimbabwe, does Community Outreach by providing sustainable solutions for communities and wildlife to co-exist. (Nov. 2, 2024)
The Mongoose living at the Victoria Falls Wildlife Trust in Zimbabwe continued to follow us around. (Nov. 2, 2024)
The African white-backed vulture, with its care giver at the Victoria Falls Wildlife Trust in Zimbabwe, can no longer fly and is now a permanent resident. Poachers kill white-backed vultures for their meat. And in southern Africa, people use the bird for traditional medicine—so much so that one study suggests this continued practice will eventually lead to local extinction. (Nov. 2, 2024)
The African white-backed vulture at the Victoria Falls Wildlife Trust in Zimbabwe. Just for clarification, this vulture only eats dead animals. (Nov. 2, 2024)
Heading to the lab at the Victoria Falls Wildlife Trust in Zimbabwe. (Nov. 2, 2024)
The Mongoose living at the Victoria Falls Wildlife Trust in Zimbabwe followed us around, but was not allowed to go into the lab. (Nov. 2, 2024)
Our guide at the Victoria Falls Wildlife Trust, Tevez Mwenulusi showing us the monitors they place around some of the bigger more dangerous wildlife like the lions and elephants. (Nov. 2, 2024)
Several of us decided to walk and visit Victoria Falls first thing when it opened at 6:30 am. It was a nice cool 20 minute walk with few hawkers trying to sell you animal carvings along the sidewalks. From left: Joyce, Marty, Daniela, Julia, Johannes and Mike. Walking in the distance are Wadey, Trudy and Joseph. (Nov. 3, 2024)
The entrance to the Victoria Falls National Park in the town of Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe. The traditional name for the Falls is called the Mosi-Oa-Tunya, from the Lozi language, meaning “The Smoke That Thunders.” (Nov. 3, 2024)
At the entrance of the Victoria Falls National Park. We arrived just as the park was opening. (Nov. 3, 2024)
One of several informational posters inside the entryway of the Victoria Falls National Park on its formation, the indigenous people and history of the waterfall called Mosi-Oa-Tunya by the indigenous people, meaning “The Smoke That Thunders.” (Nov. 3, 2024)