Victoria Falls

It was holding all the water we could ever think of.

And because of the Victoria Force, water has been falling.

In the past 60 years, we never diversified in terms of energy.

But thanks to government, despite that, our president did motivate and he led the revolution to do many reforms in the energy sector.

During his travels, it is believed that David Livingston became the first European to set sights on a giant waterfall, which the locals called Mossy Au Tunja .

Livingston renamed it Victoria Falls, in honor of Queen Victoria, although both names are officially recognized today.

This voyage went considerably smoother than the one to the west.

On March 2, 1856, the expedition reached the Portuguese settlement of Tite, where most of the party members stopped.

Not too long ago, my family and I took a trip over to Zimbabwe, one of my favorite places.

We went to Victoria Falls and they were bungee jumping off the Victoria Falls Bridge.

And my son and my daughter and my wife and my father-in-law, who was in his late 70s at the time, wanted to go jump off the bridge.

I have no idea why people would want to do this.

So I went into the cafe and had a cup of coffee with my mother-in-law.

And that to me was better than jumping off the Victoria Falls Bridge, which should tell you something.

And I started thinking, you know, why do you do this? And, of course, the answer is it's fun.

There's an adrenaline.

The Zambezi River runs all the way down through Oh man, don't get me into saying something false here, but I can't remember exactly the way it runs, but it's running down into another country.

And at the end of that country is what they call Victoria Waterfalls, amen.

And it's one of the seven wonders of the world in Victoria Waterfalls, amen.

And so with all that great water and all that great river, we were there and I was in the museum.

And I went to the museum because the museum is one of those places that you go to find, obviously, about history and things that have gone on before you.

And when those pools of water started to collect, now they start to overflow their banks.

And when they start to overflow its banks, then it started to run down the earth.

And then it started to carve its own path all the way till it gets down to Livingston The Livingston area of Zambia then to the point where it falls over one of the pieces of land and therefore we have what now they call the Great Victoria Waterfalls.

Bro just shows me a waterfall.

It's not even like Angels Falls or Victoria Falls.

It's a waterfall.

If you had to guess.

And then with that dancing, like most cultures, the dancing and the rhythmic drumming, et cetera, et cetera, open the communication channels to the ancestors, and so the rituals progress.

So, like I said, it is possible to visit it, but it's certainly not anything touristy as such, as we discussed with Victoria Falls.

anything like that so it is possible it's dirt road it's probably four by four only to get up to lake funduzi if you can get your permission to go there from the local authorities and uh again the rituals and and that is not really published or as well known as a lot of the other stuff that we cover, you know, like we did the reed dances in Swaziland and that's, you know, it's published everywhere and it's a big tourist attraction and people come and they come and watch the reed dance in Swaziland.

But this seems to still be very, very I don't know, original, if you want to put that word to it, or authentic, and it has not become any kind of touristy thing.

So they've had years and years and years to grow supersized, and if one of those comes to the surface, it's going to scare you as well, and you're not going to believe that's just a normal fish.

Mm-hmm.

i think what i also find quite interesting is um obviously your your role in this is 90 of the information but i do like to try and see if i can do a little bit of research and how little you can find online about these these stories and i mean you spoke a little bit about it in our previous episode about the oral tradition of a lot of these stories and While the Zambezi and Victoria Falls are a very commercial place, I would say that Philippe obviously is not quite in the same category.

But how little information you can find online.