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2 unusual facts about Victoria Falls


Victoria Falls

In 1904 the Victoria Falls Hotel was opened to accommodate visitors arriving on the new railway.

Victoria Falls Bridge

As the river is the border between Zimbabwe and Zambia, the bridge links the two countries and has border posts on the approaches to both ends, at the towns of Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe and Livingstone, Zambia.


Arnold Wienholt Hodson

One of his journeys, in 1906, was made in the company of Sir Ralph Williams, Resident Commissioner, and was from Serowe to Livingstone and the Victoria Falls via Lake Ngami.

Beyond Boundaries

They have to work together as a group to cross the two oldest deserts in the world, avoid lions and rhinos, and ride the world’s most dangerous rapids at Victoria Falls before reaching their destination on the Skeleton Coast.

Hendrik Spoorbek

The great hunter and explorer Jan Viljoen, who reached the Victoria Falls shortly after David Livingstone, went to Spoorbek’s cottage one afternoon and asked Spoorbek to accompany him to a funeral.

Innes Harold Stranger

While on an overseas trip in 1930 he was flying from Johannesburg to Victoria Falls when the aircraft developed difficulties and had to land in a jungle clearing.

Mzilikazi High School

The School is in the City of Bulawayo, Zimbabwe, located along the Old Falls Road (i.e. road that used to link the city of Bulawayo with the Victoria Falls.

Sikhuphe International Airport

It is part of King Mswati III's $1bn millennium project investment initiative to enhance Swaziland's position as a tourist destination, serving as a tourism gateway to Swaziland's game parks, Victoria Falls, Maputo, the Kruger National Park and KwaZulu-Natal game reserves.

Simpson Safari

After surviving the plunge over Victoria Falls, the family stumble upon a Chimpanzee sanctuary maintained by the scientist Dr. Joan Bushwell (a parody of Jane Goodall).


see also

Chute-Saint-Philippe, Quebec

The settlement initially had the name Chute-Leon at the beginning of the 20th century, in memory of Pope Leo XIII (1810-1903), and was called Victoria Falls by 1903, in honour of Queen Victoria (1819-1901).