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<\/a>Second, it helps if the resort is in the midst of one of the seven wonders of the natural world.\u00a0 I think there must be hundreds of top seven, like Thunder in the Smoke Falls (the original name before Livingstone honored his queen and they became Victoria Falls). Check.<\/p>\nThird, make sure the resort offers an interesting variety of optional activities (other than the usual Olympic-sized swimming pool, superb dining room, and bedrooms with mosquito netting and other exotic indications that you are in the tropics). These options could include:<\/p>\n
1) A private tour of Victoria Falls, along a part of the trail that\u2019s handicapped 2) A view of the falls from above is a must, whether it\u2019s an ultralight (I 5) Fifth, a sunset cruise on the Zambezi River (almost 2000 miles, but we did not do that much of it), or a canoe\/kayak trip, doing your best to avoid the most dangerous animal\u2014the hippopotamus, while enjoying that floating submarine from a safe distance. (and you doubt it when I write that tourism is the world\u2019s biggest business). Check.<\/p>\n Finally, top off the day with a dinner at the five-star sister resort, the Royal Livingstone, whose dishes include venison (it\u2019s a kudu, we were told)\u2014and you can sample some local dishes, including worms, which some of our faculty did. (Incidentally, they were ok). Check.<\/p>\n And if you stick around for a few days (we\u2019re leaving for Botswana tomorrow), you\u2019ll eventually learn why it took so long to find Livingstone; I\u2019ve been asking for Dr. Livingston, and, as you clever readers have discovered, it\u2019s spelled with an \u201ce\u201d. He\u2019s now commemorated as one of the few colonial heroes with a statue on both sides of the border, and spelled with an \u201ce.\u201d Check.<\/p>\n Hope you\u2019re mum\u2019s day was as pleasant as ours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Mum\u2019s the word May 12, 2019 Livingstone, Zambia If you\u2019re looking for a way to impress Mum on Mother\u2019s Day, here\u2019s what worked well for me today: First, select a four-star resort in an exotic location. Say, Zambia, a country of 16 million people, with 72 languages, 11 of which are considered major enough to … Continue reading “Mum’s the Word”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-southern-africa-2019"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1732","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1732"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1732\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8526,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1732\/revisions\/8526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/factrack\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}<\/a>accessible and dry, in case she\u2019s concerned about having wet hair. Be sure it is early enough in the day to boast multiple rainbows. That makes for neater pictures, along with the mist (smoke) and roar (thunder). Check.<\/p>\n<\/a>personally recommend), a helicopter, or, for the risk takers, a multilight flight. You can\u2019t take a camera with you for the ultras or the multis, but a go pro takes pictures every ten seconds, and you can buy that as a once-in-a-lifetime gift. It\u2019s an added benefit if the pilot drops down over the national park to show you the endangered white rhino or a herd of elephants.\u00a0 An admission:\u00a0 I took that ultralight flight, to Carolyn’s dismay. Check.<\/p>\n<\/a>3) It\u2019s a long walk to Zimbabwe, which shares the falls with Zambia, an extra visa, and an extra charge for admission to the Zimbabwe side, but you do have the opportunity of getting another stamp on your passport, a walk across a bridge that was originally part of the vision Cecil John Rhodes had for a Cape-to-Cairo railroad (and now in addition the site of a bungee jumping station). The Zimbabwe side has the deeper channel, with most of the water all year round. In May, the beginning of winter, the falls are almost at their peak, so it\u2019s not essential to go to the other side. It does, however, offer access to the town of Victoria Falls, which has a wonderfully luxurious colonial hotel. Check.<\/p>\n<\/a>4) Fourth, there should be a lot of nature walks\u2014a safari, a boat safari, a lion walk (they\u2019re fed and\u00a0\u00a0tame), an elephant ride, and a walk with cheetahs, which can be lovable cats, we learned, if they\u2019re born in captivity and well fed before you arrive (about 10 pounds of meat a day). Check.<\/p>\n<\/a>