Welcome to Victoria Falls Zimbabwe in this video we're gonna cover all the
things you need to know before embarking on this adventure including the animals
the accommodations and the precautions let's go check it out
first things first is getting there we fly from Johannesburg
to Victoria Falls
this is the best feature I've ever seen on a play this is the airport and
Zimbabwe Victoria Falls it's actually really nice this is the Victoria Falls
Airport in Zimbabwe make sure you bring $30 cash for your visa and we got one of
these vans to take
malaria tablets prescribed by your doctor carry on taking
them until your return. We have our own private falls in our hotel ok turn for a brief hotel tour
this is called the Kingdom hotel this is in Zimbabwe and a very small village
called Victoria Falls right outside of the National Park I have two beds here
and there's a fan air-conditioning there's a little mini-fridge television
a little place to eat and I have a nice deck with a river view and apparently
monkeys and baboons can come in so I have to keep the doors closed
you bring malaria pills from your doctor before you come here and also as an
extra precaution bring some bug spray with DEET it's not a huge problem here
but it does exist one more thing to note is internet usage we're pretty remote
out here in my hotel only gave me one gigabyte of data for the entire week so
just an FYI put you're out of office responders on before you come to
Zimbabwe - Oh and guess what? I just became a billionaire!
this is the local currency, it's no longer being used. What they're using
instead to the US dollar they're also using the pound in the Euro but
everything's paid to the US dollar rate basically the currency went through this
hyperinflation the government was just printing out
more and more every time it needed to pay for something and it became
worthless so if you need money bring US dollars here the ATMs do not work so you
can go into the bank and retrieve US dollars or you can use your Visa or
MasterCard to pay for things and always keep some cash on hand here oh and that
five billion dollars I purchased that at a tourist gift shop for one US dollar so
that goes to show you how worthless the local currency is it's literally being
used as souvenirs. So that bug was scary I don't know how it got in my room I
never even opened the patio door but we do have mosquito nets hopefully that
will protect us from creepy crawlies that is the flag of Zimbabwe are going
into the famous colonial style Victoria Falls Hotel this is an old English map
from 1935
I am at the Victoria Falls Hotel or get help for you
this is where you go for high tea and there's a view of the falls this is so
elegant
beautiful colonial hotel overlooking the falls in the bridge these giant trees
its property is huge these are bamboos they're wild here they
just chill and they grab onto stuff the animals are coming to us
no Safari needed we got Zimbabwe in a photo we got Mike the Zimbabwe flag
warthogs that literally just came to us and the granddaddy we Zambezi bridge this
cool bar
this is somewhere that Hemingway would chill out
with these beautiful placemats
I'm gonna take a video of it the pavlova for dessert Michael loves it this
beautiful cooler the Victoria Falls Hotel
get this we have the Victoria Falls pool they have this beautiful lounge room
right here look at this cool room this is the gallery inside the Victoria hotel
got all these beautiful paintings these are all paintings done by artists the
hotel also has pictures of the British royal visit to Southern Rhodesia in 1953
BP what's behind you this is the railroad station for Victoria Falls
Zimbabwe okay so the train sign is handwritten it's gonna arrive at 9:30
this is one of the most unique train stations I've ever been to now we head
to the Zambezi River to take a sunset wildlife cruise be sure to keep your
hands and feet inside the boat at all times the hippos are the most dangerous
mammal in Africa coming within just a few feet of the back of the boat the
drivers gun the engine getting away in just the nick of time I looked this up
on that geo guys do you know that hippos are highly aggressive and unpredictable
and the most dangerous mammal in Africa
during this two hour boat ride we were sure to find hippos and crocodiles but
we really wanted to see elephants look at these bird nests
we scoured up and down the river when finally we saw something moving in the
bushes it was the African elephant this part of
Zimbabwe has a high concentration of elephants the Savannah subspecies has
family units that contain about ten individual elephants the African
elephants are the world's largest land mammals this was my first time seeing
one in the wild and not in a zoo it was truly amazing to see them roam free in
their natural environment one of the notable features of African elephants is
their very large ears which allow them to radiate excess heat
if you love these river views as much as we do hit the thumbs up button down
below the Zambezi River forms the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe and is an
excellent way to experience the nature of this region
here's the hippos again and they can hold their breath for seven minutes
this is clearing this forest
these right here are mango trees look at them all he's getting mango he's getting
it whoa I found one he's been dropping all the mangoes where'd he go this right
here is a fig tree look at all these little figs growing on the tree now we
walk around downtown Victoria Falls
their eyes caught me and all kinds of drinks
What kind of beer did you get?
where's it from? Namibia. So they just gave us a dish so we can cut up the
mango that the monkey gave us.
really right
if it is
walking around downtown
this right here is the line for petrol at the gas station there's a shortage
from the supplier so it only comes like once a day and there's a huge line a lot
of people are just chilling and waiting for their guests and there's a KFC
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