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EXPLORED June 4, 2022
The actual reason we were in Zimbabwe...the falls. There is no way to get it all in one shot, you walk along the wall and see it in different parts. And the sound! There was so much spray that in some places you could see nothing through the spray. We were soaked, even though we had umbrellas. I kept my camera under cover except for a few fast shots.
Great Zimbabwe is a ruin of a former medieval city in the south-eastern hills of Zimbabwe, near Lake Mutirikwe and the town of Masvingo. Construction of the city began in the 9th century and continued until it was abandoned in the 15th century.
Photo by Charlotte Blanchet – Lotus Blanc
Une des plus larges chutes du monde, s'étendant sur presque 2 kilomètres de largeur et atteignant une hauteur de 108 mètres par endroits.
Un survol inoubliable !
Victoria Falls, or Mosi-oa-Tunya (Tokaleya Tonga: the Smoke that Thunders), is on the Zambezi River at the border of Zambia and Zimbabwe.
David Livingstone, the Scottish missionary and explorer, is believed to have been the first European to view Victoria Falls on 16 November 1855 from what is now known as Livingstone Island, one of two land masses in the middle of the river, immediately upstream from the falls on the Zambian side. Livingstone named his discovery in honour of Queen Victoria, but the indigenous name, Mosi-oa-Tunya—"the smoke that thunders"—continues in common usage as well.
While it is neither the highest nor the widest waterfall in the world, it is classified as the largest, based on its width of 1,708 metres (5,604 ft) and height of 108 metres (354 ft),resulting in the world's largest sheet of falling water.
The spray from the falls typically rises to a height of over 400 metres (1,300 ft), and sometimes even twice as high, and is visible from up to 48 km (30 mi) away.
For a considerable distance upstream from the falls the Zambezi flows over a level sheet of basalt, The falls are formed as the full width of the river plummets in a single vertical drop into a transverse chasm 1708 metres (5604 ft) wide, carved by its waters along a fracture zone in the basalt plateau.
The Falls were declared a World Heritage Site
in 1989.
I just want to wish a fond, farewell to all my flickr friends. Looks like I 'm moving on to bigger and better things. I just got an email from the president of a large bank in Zimbabwe. I don't even know how he got my email address, but apparently this is my lucky day! It turns out that some very wealthy person there has died in a plane crash and has no heirs to leave the money to, so the bank has temporary custody of his millions of dollars, but they are not allowed to keep it. They just need someone in the United States to give the money to. All I needed to do was to wire them $3000 for processing fees, which obviously, I promptly did. So, now that the processing fees have been paid, I should be receiving a check for five million dollars sometime next week. I'm going to be quitting my job tomorrow, as I sit here and anxiously wait for the arrival of my check! This is so exciting!
Anyway... This was from Monument Valley, last month. It's the famous Mittens. Well... It's one of the Mittens, anyway. Not sure where the other Mitten went. I think it may have been out being repaired that day.
The baobab trees are dying off at an alarming rate, and the Garratts are all but gone too. No. 519 passes a lone tree in the last of the evening light. ..Zimbabwe. June 2018. © David Hill.
We visited an amazing local festival in a remote area of Zimbabwe near the Chilo Gorge and had a lot of time to hang out with these children. Here's a photo of a group of kids that came out for the event. All the local tribes get together for a huge celebration a few times a year. It's a new local effort to get various tribes together from all over the region - no matter whatever the national boundaries happen to be. I like this sort of thing because just like racism is an "idea" - so is nationalism (our country is better than yours, etc). If you want to know more, read about it in Yuval Noah Harari's latest book.