Aladdin's adventure in the Devils Pool at Victoria Falls

And it didn't take long before I regretted that I had given him my camera. He took all the pictures I didn't want to have. I wanted to swim around taking pictures “Aladdin style” But it was NON STOP “Now we're sitting here” mixed with a few “wave to the camera” and “Let's move over here as a group for yet another pointless picture”

When I finally managed to “talk” the Guide in to giving me my camera the next group was already in the Devil's Pool and they started all over again with the “Now we're sitting here” mixed with a few “wave to the camera” and “Let's move over here as a group for yet another pointless picture” and I never got the pictures I wanted.

I really wanted to have some nice pictures to send to our 2nd Engineer on Roy Maersk. Well, but the whole experience was excellent and I'm thinking about doing it again, if I can find a spot where I will be alone.

I managed to get in to yet another argu... discussion before we left Livingstone Island. At the breakfast tent and they asked me to sit down at the table. I asked for a bottle of water.
- Sit down!
- I don't want to sit down!
- Sit down and I will bring your food and tea
- I don't want anything to eat. Just give me a bottle of water and I will walk around having a look at the place!

I could not believe my ears, I'm on Livingstone Island one time in my life and I don't want to waste the time sitting at a table eating breakfast. I was still full after the breakfast at the Jungle Junction at Victoria Falls Hotel.

And I started out very polite when asking for a bottle of water and the guy refused to give me the water. It was sit down and drink coffee or tea. Well, I got three bottles of water and I spent the time exploring Livingstone Island. I was in some bushes when I heard a hissing sound, like a snake and I made a very quick U-turn and walked back the same way I had come and I was soon back at the breakfast tent.

Time to leave and we had to wait for a few minutes before the boat came back with 6 new visitors for the Livingstone Island.

They got out and we got in to the boat and we were soon on our way back to Royal Livingstone Hotel and my ride back to Victoria Falls Hotel in Zimbabwe. I will have 2 hours of rest before my next activity. Time for a Diet Drink and to update my web page? Sleep? We will see.

Time to leave Livingstone Island and the Devil's Pool behind

Time to leave Livingstone Island and the Devil's Pool behind

We were soon back at Royal Livingstone Hotel and the hippos was still in the river outside the hotel. In exactly the same positions as when we left for Livingstone Island. Yes, first time you see a hippo it is kind of exciting, but the excitement is soon worn off.

So what about my Devil's pool experience, yes, this is something I can recommend. BUT KEEP YOU CAMERA!!! I will see if I will have the time to go there again before leaving for Botswana. I have already sent a request for one more trip, if I will be alone or almost alone. And we can skip the food and tour of Livingstone Island, only in the Devil's Pool.

My ride wasn't waiting for me and after 10 minutes I went to look for a taxi. I paid him 10 US Dollars for a ride to the Zimbabwean border. We stopped at the Zambian immigration and I got my exit stamp. This took 2 minutes and we were soon on our way across the Victoria Falls Bridge.

I had to change car at the Zambian immigration and he would take me to the immigration in Zambia on the other side of the bridge.

We're only allowed to cross the bridge ONE BY ONE and I could not help but thinking about the over 100 years old bridge. Will the bridge hold up while we're crossing? Hopefully at least until we're over and this might be the last time I cross the bridge.

Well, I might cross the bridge again as I want to come back in May to see the falls in full force. But not next year as I will take off to see polar bears and ice berg then.

Crossing Victoria Falls Bridge one by one

Crossing Victoria Falls Bridge one by one

Back in Zimbabwe

I got out of the taxi at the Zimbabwean immigration and the paper work kept them busy for 2 minutes and I was in Zimbabwe. Not far to my hotel, but I was looking for a taxi even though I wanted to walk. I limped to Devil's Pool and I was turning cartwheels out of Devil's Pool.

The pool is full of fishes that eats your dead skin, same as the fish massage. But these fishes were big and it was not very nice to have them chewing on you.

I have tried the fish massage once and I can't say that it was any exciting experience. But these fishes were a wee bit different.

But maybe, and I say maybe, they eat off the bad from my right foot. So I felt quite OK with my foot. But the hike to the Boiling point on Sunday and I want to be in top form, so taxi it was.

And the taxi trip turned out to be a gaming drive. Border post is just outside the Victoria Falls Town so it takes a few minutes to get to my hotel. I was in the back enjoying the tour when suddenly the driver stopped. We were almost hitting a group of elephants spraying themselves in mud to alleviate the heat.

And of course, I had not seen them if it wasn't for the Driver. Here is a lot of wild life in the area. Cheetahs hunting and elephants roaming around. Buffalo, yeah, a buffalo is as exciting as watching paint dry.

But what we don't know is that the, yes, I know most of you think about a Thai buffalo. But these buffaloes are one of the most dangerous animals in Africa. My Driver told me that the elephant killed a few people every year in the area. Well, 2 minutes later and I was at my hotel. Nice!

I went to look for water and they told me that the only place to buy water was at the bar. I went inside and I asked for 2 bottles.
- 10 US Dollars
- What the

I got upset and I asked what was so special with this water. They explained that it came from a machine with a compressor. YEAH, NORMAL FOOCKING TAP WATER! I told them that this was a robbery. But I paid 10 Dollars and I left for my room. I was upsets, 10 US it is not an expensive water. It is a scam! But the bottles were nice and I will bring them back home.

We remember when I got a bottle like this from our Austrian friend at Sophia Muay Thai Gym. I managed to break the bottle at another boxing session. And these bottles with the porcelain flip top are very hard to find. I found bottles like this in Australia, but the flip top was made out of plastic and I never learned how to like them.

Well, now I have more of these bottles and I will “arrange” so I can get four of these bottles back home to Bangkok. OK, I'm off to my room for some rest and to update my web page. In two hours they will be here to pick me up for the “Guided tour of the falls”

It had been a very good start on the day with the Devil's Pool, nothing like they want to make it sound as, a dangerous place. Like on the video below.

The video: Girls defy death at Victoria Falls! Devil's Pool, Livingstone Island, Zambia

Well, while you enjoy the video I will take off to the “Guided tour of the falls” and this is something I'm looking forward to. Walking along the falls on the Zambian side in the morning and we will walk along the Zimbabwe side in the afternoon. So click HERE and you will be in the middle of that adventure. Now we will see the Devil's pool from the Zimbabwean side!