Zimbabwe, July 2003

Zimbabwe:
Victoria Falls
Elephant Riding
High Tea at the Victoria Falls Hotel

Victoria Falls

	The Zambesi River and Victoria Falls from a helicopter.  The gash in the landscape is about 1600m wide.
From ground level, the spray often falls over the walkway to the viewpoints.

Elephant Riding

	I went on the elephant ride because I wanted the opportunity to get a good look at an African elephant.  We were told that all the elephants used for riding were orphans from a drought in the early 1990s.  The tourist elephant ride was introduced there as a way to pay for the substantial upkeep of a lot of growing beasts.
After the ride, visitors are allowed a short interaction time with their elephants.  Mine was keen to show how clean his teeth were...

High Tea

	One of the things to experience in Victoria Falls, is High Tea at the Victoria Falls Hotel.  The view from the balcony is lovely, the scones are rather good, and by all accounts, the cocktails are very cheap.
	Due to the economic problems in Zimbabwe, paying the bill can be rather amusing.  Our bill for High Tea came to Zim$84000.  At the time, about US$12 a head.  The largest note available is Zim$500, hence the stack of money.   The white paper on the left is the $84,000 bill.

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