Zambia – The size of Texas with 20+ million people.  Their official language is English with 72 tribal languages.

We knew we could walk to Zambia from Zimbabwe and reconnoitered the situation on foot the day before by walking across the old single lane bridge built in 1909 that is bordered by each country.

The bridge sits high above the Zambezi river that flows from the falls.  It’s not only one lane but only one vehicle is allowed cross at a time – not sure what happens when a train crosses. It’s was a bit creepy being up so high and thinking about the weight of a big rig crossing at the same time – there’s no way I’d cross with a train!

First we walked the falls on the Zimbabwean side and drenched by the spray we headed to Zambia for a look around.

Immigration was super easy and free of charge.  We hired a taxi to take us to Livingstone.

David Livingstone was a Scottish physician, Protestant clergyman, and explorer. He was driven to discover the headwaters of the Nile River, which he failed to do.  However, over decades in Africa he was an inveterate explorer, and discovered Victoria Falls on the Zambezi River.

Zambia was formally known as Rhodesia. Cecil Rhodes was a British explorer businessman and colonist who exploited the country. He created immense wealth by discovering diamonds and gold in South Africa and Rhodesia and Northern Rhodesia, which were colonies named after him.  He died in his 50s, very wealthy somewhat controversial because of his viewpoints on colonization, but created the Rhodes scholarship.

It was a small town with not much to offer.  Bill said it looked like a typical English village of one hundred years ago. We had lunch (the only two people in the restaurant – a sandwich and frozen pizza which took over an hour to prepare), snapped a few photos and headed back to our place for sundowners.