Views of Joburg & Soweto

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

The Royal Livingstone

A Birds Eye View

Victoria Falls from the Sky…

The Falls during the dry season

Daring Activities

Let’s go sit and relax in the pool…the pool right next to the edge of Victoria Falls!  Now this is a Daring Journey!
 
 

Livingstone, Zambia

Ah, Livingstone….meat pies…Fanta Grape…internet access…and time to update my blog!  So I thought!  We are having a power outage in Livingstone from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.!!!!!!  Africa…it’s all part of the expereince!
Well the electricty came back up early!  I’m just going to chill today and sort out some things.  I’ll see if I can upload some of [...]

Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe

I FOUND ALL MY BAGS!
I got to drive all the way from Bulawayo to Victoria Falls and I hauled down the one-lane highway to make up for lost time.  I believe I made it in 3 1/2 hours!  I stopped by the Vic Falls Airport before I arrived into town and found both my bags [...]

Masvingo, Zimbabwe

Just outside the town of Masvingo, Zimbabwe are The Great Ruins of Zimbabwe.  The are believed to be built some where between 1200 AD and 1500 AD.  Amazing history here, but the power was off in this area, so I was unable to walk through the museum to get more facts on the Ruins themselves.  [...]

Harare, Zimbabwe

I’m now in Harare, Zimbabwe!  All my Zambian friends think I’m crazy!  But what an experience and Harare is not as bad as everyone has made it out to be!  It’s a decent size bustling city with some unique high-rise architecture.
 
Robert Mugabe, Thabo Mbeke and Morgan Tsvangirai are in one of the conference rooms in [...]

Bulawayo, Zimbabwe

Well the 12 hour bus ride from Joburg to Bulawayo turned into a 17 hour bus ride after spending several hours getting through each border and customs having to check the purchases of all the passengers…there were hundreds of grocery bags that had to be claimed!  The bus drivers (we have two of them each [...]

Johannesburg aka Joburg or Jozi (South Africa)

We land in the newly renovated Joburg Airport (in prep for the 2010 World Cup) an hour early and 3 hours earlier than my original flight from NY would have landed.  I would have never made that connection…great deal!!  So I thought.  My 3 check-in bags never made it on the plane!  Lost bags in [...]