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.

I was not the lion, but it fell to me to give the lion's roar.

While on safari in Hwange National Park, Zimbabwe,

we came across these adorable lion cubs.

Just like [human] siblings, they were playing with each other...

although a bit more feisty than most [human] parents would like!

I am obsessed.  SO cute.

A male lion and one of the cubs.

A lioness.

The pride.

I love, love, love this cub's expression.

He was playing with the male and just looks like he's having fun.

A cub playing with a tree.

Easy to forget they will grow up to be deadly killers!

What is with the blog's title?  It's from Winston Churchill.