Victoria Falls
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Victoria Falls is a major tourist attraction, and there are the usual
tourist-type things to do in the vicinity. Since we went as part of a
package tour, we were booked for some things we probably would have
avoided if on our own, such as a performance of "authentic
African dances" put on every night for the benefit of tourists
(including a busload of Japanese, all of whom wore little earphones
to hear a translation of the English commentary
by their tour guide). I can't vouch for the authenticity of the
dances, but some were quite remarkable, including these guys who
danced entirely on stilts. Sheesh--I get dizzy just being as tall
as I am! Another act involved a bloke picking up a section of railway
rail massing about 40 kg with his teeth...I don't recall precisely
why. It was after this performance that we departed for a
Boma ("place of eating") dinner, where we savoured that African
delicacy, the
Mopani worm
(actually the caterpillar of the emperor moth Imbrasia belina
which feeds on the leaves of the Mopani tree, Colophospermum mopani). Yum!
by John Walker
July, 2001
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