Victoria Falls

Victoria Falls at a glance

• If you just want to make a Victoria Falls booking – contact us
• 2010 specials: group bookings, low season and last-minute discounts through the year
• Short safari combinations: Victoria Falls with Chobe, Hwange National Park, the lower Zambezi and more....
• The "adventure combos": white water rafting full day, half day and river boarding
• Simple accommodation bookings: Victoria Falls Safari Lodge, Victoria Falls Hotel, Ilala Lodge, Stanley and Livingstone, bed and breakfast stays...
• Simple activity reservations: white water rafting, bungee jumps, elephant back trails, the “lion encounter”, horse trails, upper Zambezi canoeing, Zambezi River cruises, fishing trips, walking trails, game drives, Livingstone and Vic Falls town tours, Chobe Day Trips...
• African Safaris: select from this season's safari modules or tailor make a special honeymoon, family trip or photographic safari in Botswana, Namibia, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique or Malawi...

Victoria Falls is one of the most spectacular natural wonders of the world - hence its almost universal appeal to travellers. The mighty Zambezi flows broad and placid to the brink of a 1700m wide basalt lip before taking a headlong 100 metre plunge into the thunderous, frothy chasm of the gorge below. This is the world's largest sheet of falling water.

Once the river has taken its plunge, things change ...

For those with the courage, the rapids immediately downstream offer some of the most terrifying white water rafting and riverboarding for the novice or those with more experience, anywhere in the world - the Colorado pales by comparison.

See our white water rafting activities to make a booking.

Bungi jumpers scream down 111 metres off the Victoria Falls bridge - until recently, the world's highest commercial bungee jump.

Don't be mistaken by the hype:

• 20 years ago Victoria Falls had just less than 100 permanent European residents
  
• 100 years ago it had just less than 30
  
• Historically Victoria Falls was only "discovered" by David Livingstone 5 generations ago [November 1855].

Today, Victoria Falls remains as evocative a destination as it did to the hunters, surveyors, explorers and missionaries of the 19th Century.

Today, the wanderlust is the same, the pursuits are slightly different, it serves as a primary safari gateway to Southern Africa, offers gentle safari activities above the Falls including game viewing, bird watching and fishing and adrenalin filled activities below.

What is there to do at Victoria Falls?

Aside from the spectacle of seeing the largest curtain of falling water on earth you can participate in a wide variety of other activities. For example:

• Historical tour with private guide
• White Water Rafting (day trips and expeditions)
• River Cruises (Breakfast cruise, Sundown cruise, Lunch cruise, Ornithologist's cruise)
• Game drives (half and full day, night drives)
• Bunji jumping
• River boarding
• Tours (Traditional, Cultural, Zambezi Nature Sanctuary, Falls Tour)
• Aerial trips (Helicopter, fixed-wing, and microlight)
• Upper Zambezi Canoeing (if you want to see the "wild side", look at canoe safaris on the lower Zambezi River)
• Walking Trails (if you want walking safaris - look at some specific spots in Zimbabwe, Zambia or Botswana)
• Horse and Elephant Trails
• Visit the Snake Park

For further information on these activities plus more contact us

Vic Falls is an excellent destination to combine with visiting Chobe National Park which can be done either on a one day visit or for a few days. A first class safari is to spend a few days in Hwange National Park followed by a few days at Victoria Falls. If you're a horse rider, there are excellent horse riding safaris available in Hwange, the Okavango Delta and the Kafue National Park in Zambia, all within easy access from Victoria Falls.

Read more about our other Safari Types

Traditional Safaris  |   Family Safaris  |  Mobile Safaris  |  Honeymoon Safaris  |  Special Interest Safaris  |  Primate Safaris  |  Bush and Beach Safaris  |  Off Beat Explorations  |  Active Safaris  |  Migration Safaris

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Also see Livingstone for more information on Victoria Falls