Victoria falls, by helicopter

Using the logic that I may only go to Africa once in my life, I splurged and took a helicopter ride over Victoria Falls. As we were leaving town, it was so obvious that it was the dry season.
The river just drops off into this gigantic crack in the earth. What I never knew was how many cracks there were.

The falls are something like 1.7 km wide

More rainbows

I really was enamored by the gorges after the falls

We are flying over Zimbabwean airspace right now. Most of the falls actually lie on the Zimbabwe side.

See how the earth is just split by these amazing gorges?

If you see the little point on the right, just above the bridge, that is the Zambian side of the falls. Just put my pictures from the previous post into your mind to get an idea of scale.

A little scary?

Pretty amazing that that gigantic mellow river condenses down to this tiny maelstrom

Our pilot. Never did learn his name because they just shuttled us in and out so fast.

The river before the falls

The big island above the falls (can't remember the name at the moment)

Livingstone from the air

Ah, back on safe ground. An expensive 15 minutes, but pretty spectacular.