Vikcoria Falls – some new stamps in our passports

So we decided to leave the lonely desert of the Damara and Kaokoveld in the northwest of Namibia on the left – which would have been the clearly more relaxed variant and is also made by most Namibian travelers – and instead to cross the border to Botswana and Zimbabwe via the “Caprivi Strip” in the northeast to visit the world-famous Victoria Falls.

The journey there leads us not only over two borders and through three national parks, but is with 1200km not even close to create in one day. We leave the Etosha National Park around noon and drive first to Rundu, quasi the entrance gate in the approximately 500km long and 50 km wide Caprivistreifen, which the German colonial administration at the end of the 19ten century of the English erhandelte (mainly, to enable shipping between German East and West Africa, forgetting that it might be difficult to hoist a ship over the Victoria Falls Open-mouthed smile). In Rundu we spend a night at the campsite of a nice lodge right on the Zambezi River, which separates Namibia and Angola, and decide whether to do the remaining 700km in one piece or in several stages.

We decide for the crowbar, then the return trip will be a little more relaxed. Because already the drive through the Caprivi strip is an experience. Conditioned by the nearby river, desert and savannah have given way to a lush evergreen. Majestic trees grow here, including the marula tree known from the movie “The funny world of animals”, which carries slightly alcoholic fruits, from which the drink “Amarula” is made – which we of course try Smile

After a few hours we reach the first border to Botswana, and except for paying a small road toll, the exit and entry here runs super relaxed. This then changes at the border to Zimbabwe, here we need over an hour for all formalities, among other things we have to pay insurance and customs for our rental car. Shortly after sunset we then reach the city of “Victoria Falls”, on the way there we even spot a few elephants on the roadside!

We then also go early into the tent, because we want to get up early to get ahead of the tourist crowds at the waterfalls, and that will be worth it. Around 7 o’clock we are on site and have the falls first time almost for us alone, but first we see between all the spray almost nothing. After a breakfast in the park, however, it gets better, the spray has partly settled and reveals us a wonderful view of parts of the falls, the rest is au

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