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About the Author: I love writing articles about my amazing experiences in and around the Victoria Falls, this majestic piece of earth has inspired me from birth.


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David Livingstone – Discovery of the reputable Victoria Falls

They travelled eastward about Lake Ngumi and there they found an extensive river. It was the Zambezi river. David’s children were ailing again. He made the decision to take his family back to Cape Town and hasten them back to England from there. David estimated that he would need two years to attain a place […]

David Livingstone – The young missionary and his appealing vision.

David told the committee of the missionary society that he elected to go to Africa, they arranged to send him. On the morning of November 17, 1840, 27 year old David Livingstone bade farewell to his father on the Broomielaw quay in Glascow and boarded his prepared ship, the George. He would never accompany his […]

David Livingstone – The early years of this great explorer

Born on March 19, 1813 in the small town of Blantyre in Lanarkshire, David Livingstone was to live his life for others, his own contentment and satisfaction was selflessly sacrificed to encourage others less incapable of overcoming adversity than himself. He was born to Neil Livingstone, an impoverished tea merchant. He was trained to read […]

The Victoria Falls – Also acknowledged as ‘The Smoke That Thunders’

General Information for Victoria Falls: Also known as Mosi-oa-Tunya (the smoke that thunders). It is positioned in Southern Africa on the Zambezi River amid the countries of Zimbabwe and Zambia. They are the greatest falls in the world. One of the seven natural wonders of the world the falls were named after Queen Victoria by […]