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Cricket World Cup 2027 in Victoria Falls: all four matches
Four matches, nine days, one town — and five free days in the middle that most visiting fans have not thought about yet.
Victoria Falls travel journal
Guides to Victoria Falls attractions, the safaris we run most, and the practical detail that decides whether a trip works. Written here, not outsourced.
Planning
Victoria Falls weather, month by month
The falls have two moods and twelve months to show them in. Here is what the water is doing when you arrive.
Planning
Devil’s Pool: the swim at the edge of Victoria Falls
A rock lip, a 100-metre drop and one of the few swims on earth that comes with a guide holding your ankles.
Adrenalin
Is bungee jumping safe? The Victoria Falls answer
111 metres, four seconds of freefall, and a lot of very dull paperwork keeping you alive. The dull part is the point.
Safari
The Chobe river cruise, and why it beats a game drive
Elephants do not look up at boats. That single fact is the whole argument for seeing Chobe from the water.
Planning
Things to do in Victoria Falls, with 2026 prices
Everything here is sold to you twice before breakfast. This is what each one costs and which ones earn their place.
Adrenalin
Zambezi river rafting: seasons, rapids and what it costs
Commercial rafting’s benchmark big-water run, in a gorge you have to climb out of afterwards. The climb is the bit nobody photographs.
Planning
KAZA UniVisa: one visa for Zimbabwe and Zambia
Victoria Falls is one waterfall with two passport queues. The UniVisa is the paperwork that makes it behave like one place.
Zambezi
Zambezi river cruise: which one should you book?
Three boats, three price points and one sunset. Here is the difference between them, minus the brochure adjectives.
Adrenalin
Zipline, gorge swing, bridge slide: which one?
Four ways to get out over the Batoka Gorge, from US$58 to US$194 and from mildly thrilling to legally requiring a signature.
Zambezi
Flight of Angels: is the helicopter flight worth it?
Thirteen minutes, US$173, and the only way to see a waterfall that is 1,708 metres wide all in one go.
Planning
The moonbow: Victoria Falls by full moon
Same physics as a rainbow, one twenty-thousandth of the light, and a waterfall generous enough to supply its own weather.
Safari
Zambezi National Park: safari five minutes from town
The park most visitors drive past on the way to the airport, which is their loss and your three-hour game drive.
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