Snapshots from the Air: Flying Over Victoria Falls

While visiting the wonderful Victoria Falls town in Zimbabwe, we soared over the Falls.

Victoria Falls, one of the Seven Natural Wonders of the World, is awesome.
Awesome as in the genuine definition: inspiring awe.

Taking a helicopter over the Falls runs away with your imagination and captures the beauty of this world.
It is easy to understand why David Livingstone wrote after seeing it that
"scenes so lovely must have been gazed upon by angels in their flight."

I've visited the Falls many times; each time is different and leaves me so wonderfully content.
No painting, no photograph I've seen captures its majesty and its indescribable ability to make you feel both tiny and happy.

They also never capture just how ginormous Victoria Falls is. Because it is.  Even that's an understatement.
The other name for Victoria Falls, Mosi-oa-Tunya ("The Smoke That Thunders") is somehow also an understatement.

Here's a video from my flight, look how it dwarfs nearby roads, that building at the bottom corner?
That's a lodge to give you a sense of its immensity.

Oh! Be still my heart, how beautiful the world is.

This was at a drier point of the season and it can still be seen so far away!

Our sweet ride.  It went too fast.

Rainbow Falls & Livingstone

Rainbow Falls in the dry season, as seen from Zimbabwe.

Rainbow Falls composes part of Victoria Falls and often, when you look down, the gorge has beautiful rainbows.

The statue to David Livingstone in Victoria Falls National Park, Zimbabwe.

Every photo I took of Zimbabwe, every photo, every painting I've seen of the Falls,
just doesn't do it remote justice.

Victoria Falls (the white spray cloud) as seen from the Royal Livingstone Hotel in Livingstone, Zambia.

Hello, giraffe!!
(in the parking lot of the Royal Livingstone!)

What a serene spot at the Royal Livingstone.

Hello, Zambia!  My first visit!