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A little sleep in and eager to get my bearings of Victoria Falls town. On my way met the Lion Encounter team - Steve and Sarah and arranged to see the Vic Falls lion project with the smaller cubs.
Coincidently, Gus and Salano were in town to commence a trip back to Nairobi.
Salano and I walked to Victoria Falls and traipsed along the pathways and when getting closer to the main viewing outlook we were drenched by the rainy spray and mist created by the falls plummeting 108 metres, my rain coat was of little use. It was like a fresh soft rain. Spectacular, amazing the amount of water cascading over the falls. Lonely Planet notes 1 million litres per seconds - incredible.
I continued on to walk the bridge to view the falls from a different angle and a view of Livingstone Island plus see if anyone was doing any crazy adventure activities. I watched one man bungee jump and my stomach churned just watching him shuffe out and then 123 jump - eh! Definitely not doing it!
A great day turned sour by the Barclays bank ATM not dispensing my money. Stupidly I listened to the security guard who said it should be working and again no money but of course more $'s was taken from my account! Panic, swearing and freak out time but trying to remain calm, madly making calls to the bank and sending emails for plan b. In the end there's nothing I can do except hope like crazy tomorrow it reverses and appears back in my account. Fingers crossed.
I invited myself along with the kumuka tour and joined them for a night at the Boma Restaurant. What a fun experience - starting with being greeted by drums and being dressed in traditional batik on arrival. Feasted on crocodile tail, steamed bream, impala steak, warthog steak, ostrich skewers, kudu stew and of course served with sudsa. Followed by an "interesting" morpane worm - mmm. The impala steak was my favourite meat out of all of the dishes, it may have been the marinade but there was a sweetness and tenderness to it.
Throughout the evening there was traditional dancing to the African drums - man they can move... Of course there was crowd participation for all to get involved and we were each given drums and away we banged and thumped with not much musical rhythym but still lots of fun thinking we did.
Next came the dancing and we had even less style and moves.
Excellent night and lucky to have joined Gus, Salano and their 4 passengers otherwise I would have missed the opportunity.
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