{"id":262,"date":"2009-12-04T20:53:23","date_gmt":"2009-12-05T01:53:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/?p=262"},"modified":"2009-12-04T20:53:23","modified_gmt":"2009-12-05T01:53:23","slug":"africa-day-2-victoria-falls-and-zambezi-river","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vincentmistretta.com\/blog\/africa-day-2-victoria-falls-and-zambezi-river\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa Day 2, Victoria Falls and Zambezi River"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sunday was an intense day, not only was it our first full day in Africa (after roughly 30 hours of flying) but it was a day with 3 scheduled location shoots, 1 more than we would have on any other day. After we photographed in Mosi-Oa-Tunya National Park we were off to Victoria Falls. As many of you know, Victoria Falls is one of the seven natural wonders of the world.
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Victoria Falls from the Zambia entrance<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n

Above is a picture looking at the falls from the Zambian entrance. You can visit the falls from either Zambia or Zimbabwe. Given that this was the beginning of the wet season, the falls were almost dry. In another 2 months the falls would cover the full length of the photo along the right wall. We were told that when the falls were in full force, we could not stand where we were taking pictures because the mist and force of the water would overwhelm us.
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Man sitting on dry Victoria Falls<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n

If you look closely at the above photo, you can see a man sitting on a dry section of the falls, this will give you a perspective of just how massive an area the falls cover. I would estimate that the section in this photo was approximately 1\/8 of the full width of the falls.<\/p>\n

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Victoria Falls across the foot bridge<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Many of you have heard about people bungee jumping from Victoria Bridge. Here is the bridge. If you look closely at the photo below, you can see the building on the bridge people jump from and the bungee as it hangs down from the bridge.
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Victoria Falls Bridge<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n

Later in the evening we took another sunset cruise down the Zambezi River. In the photo below, we were looking down one of the rivers tributaries that led to the falls. You can see in the photo the mist from the falls.
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Victoria Falls Mist from Zambezi River<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/p>\n
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African Crocodile along the Zambezi River, Zambia<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

All in all, our trip to Zambia was very memorable albeit short.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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