Thanks for the great reporting. How enjoyable!

Updates with Kruger Park area and Cape Town musings and pix have now been posted.

I am really enjoying reading your reports, especially now you have reached a part of the world (southern Africa) which I know and love well. However you are wrong when you say that the Vic Falls is only a couple of hundred yards wide - in fact it is 1.6km (1 mile) across, almost two-thirds of which lies on the Zambian side. At its high point the drop is more than 100m, or twice that of the Niagara Falls.

Thanks for the clarification. We were told 103m was the deepest point (around 335 feet, so my miscalculation) and obviously "a couple hundred yards" is inaccurate 99% of the time. Some parts of the canyon are wide, some narrow. By "broader" in referring to Niagara I think (?) I meant more of a bowl-shaped space. Maybe I'll do some editing to make it clearer. I am certainly no waterfall guru. Not much of a guru in anything, actually.

terrific webiste! and awesome photos

Notes and pix on a couple of days in Ireland on the way home, and a few brief flight reports from Africa are now added.

Flight reports CPT - LHR (BA J) - SNN (EI Y) - BOS (AA Y/F) - SEA (AS F) are now added, and linked via the "home" website - http://home.comcast.net/~gardyloo or http://home.comcast.net/~gardyloo2

I shouldn't be spending so much time reading your report while here at work...but I just can't stop! Very enjoyable and informative as well. I plan to do Africa in the next two to three years, so that portion was very educational. It appears I will have to do a lot of pre-planning and research. Seems as though Africa is not one destination you can just use miles and jet off to for a couple weeks without prior planning. Thanks for the awesome report!!! ^

Just starting to read it! Can't wait to finish!

Jeez! And people thought I put in a lot of time on my Trip Reports...!

Indeed, in your case gardyloo it's obviously been time very well spent. I've very much enjoyed reading of your most enviable adventure. I can hardly wait to return to Africa. Thanks for the fine photos as well.

Congratulations on a extremely well done trip report.

I enjoyed reading and viewing it. :-: