Our Last Day

Another amazing day in Zambia. It is early morning here and we pack up this morning to begin our long journey home. We leave Livingstone, Zambia airport at 1:30 PM and if all goes smoothly, we will arrive in San Diego at 5 PM on Friday, some 36 hours later, with some layovers in Johannesburg, London and Los Angeles.

Yesterday, the management at Tongabezi gave us a 15 minute helicopter ride over Victoria Falls - this was very generous! A breathtaking ride flying over the Zimbabwe side as well and giving us a spectacular perspective of just how wide the falls are and allowing us to see much of it that were hidden by the mist and rain when we were in the park.
This was followed by a lunch at Sindabezi Island, an island leased by Tongabezi from the Zambia Gov't - it has 5 small private rooms where you can stay that are completely open to the Zambezi and all its glory. See http://www.tongabezi.com/sindabezi.php for more info. It was a magnificent setting for our final lunch. Horace the Hippo used to live on the island with the guests but he recently moved on due to the floods.


See you on the other side of the pond!!