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Victoria Falls holidays

April 2014

  • Erin Langworthy

    Experience
    Experience: my bungee cord snapped

    Erin Langworthy: 'Instinctively, I brought up my arms, locking my hands together. Then I felt myself hit the water – and that's when I realised something had gone wrong'

March 2014

  • Five Flower Lake, China

    Ten of the world’s great natural wonders – in pictures

    From the giant redwoods of California to the almost miraculous honeycomb rock formations of the Giant's Causeway, marvel at some of the planet's most extraordinary natural landscapes

January 2012

  • The moment Australian bungee jumper Erin Langworthy's cord snapped over  the Zambezi

    Victoria Falls bungee jumper survives after cord snaps during descent

    Erin Langworthy's cord snapped as she leapt from a bridge over a gorge 111 metres above the Zambezi river

September 2011

  • From the Guardian archive
    From the archive, 12 September 1905: The great Zambesi Bridge

    Originally published in the Manchester Guardian on 12 September 1905: To-day Professor G. H. Darwin, in the presence of over 400 members of the British Association, will declare open the Zambesi Bridge. It is the highest bridge in the world

December 2009

  • A rainbow forms over the Zambezi River at Victoria Falls.

    David Smith's letter from Africa
    Paradise, I presume? Luxury, history and romance on the Zambezi

    Sindabezi Island in Zambia is one of the most beautiful, remote places on earth – an absolute sense of seclusion save for the hum of insects, the twitter of birds and a noisy bloat of hippos

June 2009

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    David Smith's letter from Africa
    Letter from Africa 9: tourism in Zimbabwe

    David Smith visits Victoria Falls and considers possible tourism to Zimbabwe

September 2008

  • Elephants cross the Zambezi

    Ahead of the game in Zambia

    Victoria Falls may be its crowning glory, but the Zambezi's more peaceful stretches offer a safari with a difference

March 2007

  • Seven natural wonders of the world

    Seven awe-inspiring natural wonders of the world: if you can't get to see them all, our gallery is the next best thing. Well, almost. Use the arrows to the right to navigate the photographs
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