I'm sitting in the Shearwater Cafe in Victoria Falls drinking am excellent flat white (yes, they have flat whites here). It's put last day in Vic Falls and our first tour is over. It was sad saying good bye to our tour group last night. They were really good value.
I'm way behind on the posts. I think I finished at the end of the Delta, but didn't cover the flight. Mum's siblings paid for it as a birthday present for her, and just about everyone in the group came. They split us into three groups and off we went into six seater planes (plus one up front with the pilot). I'd taken my cardy cos it gets cold in planes right? Wrong. It was sweltering hot. And a windy day so a bit of a bumpy ride. Mum was fine, I was just a touch queasy but people on the other planes had to make use of the bags provided.
It was great to see the Delta from the air. Ooo look elephants. There's some hippos. More elephants. Water buffaloes. It was difficult to get pictures and we've been much closer to the animals. For me the highlight was seeing the land. The random fenced off squares of people's homesteads - not grand ones, more like settler shacks. The cracked land where the water used to be. The oases of palm trees in the dry land or surrounded by reedy water. The rivulets of water snaking through the reeds or the dusty plain, occasionally joining forces to become a small lake (apparently one looks like a map of Africa but I couldn’t see it). For mum, it was the vastness of the Delta, the sporadic bursts of green, and all the elephants.
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