Rebecca M. Douglass, Author

Hard to believe, but my account of the Great African Adventure is nearly complete! This visit to Victoria Falls should finish it up. But don't despair--I have more photos to share from adventures enjoyed since getting home! The other posts from my Africa trip are: Arusha , Tarangire National Park , South Serengeti Part 1 , South Serengeti Part 2 ,  the rest of the Serengeti tour ,  Ngorogoro Crater ,  Mt. Meru , Mt. Kenya, Part 1 , Mt. Kenya, Part 2 ,  Kenya Safari Part 1 , and Kenya Safari Part 2 .     When we finished our second safari (the Kenya version), we had just one more plan before heading back to the States: a visit to the world's largest waterfall.  Located on the Zambezi River, which at this point in its long course divides the nations of Zambia and Zimbabwe, Victoria Falls is more than a mile wide--making it one of the largest in the world by width, though it is exceeded by many in both height and volume of water. One feature that str...

This week we continue with our Kenyan safaris. The other posts from my Africa trip are: Arusha , Tarangire National Park , South Serengeti Part 1 , South Serengeti Part 2 ,  the rest of the Serengeti tour ,  Ngorogoro Crater ,  Mt. Meru , Mt. Kenya, Part 1 , Mt. Kenya, Part 2 , and Kenya Safari Part 1 .  After our short and early drive at Lake Nakuru, we settled in for our 250-mile drive, which took 8 hours altogether--another day to stretch our boxed breakfast into a lunch! The drive wasn't without interest (great vistas of the Great Rift Valley, and insights into the transit problems of a country whose main truck route is a two-lane road), but we were glad to arrive at Amboseli National Park. A glad sight. Amboseli greeter. Back to Masai Giraffes, here just a few miles north of the Tanzania border. A really sweet room. Fences kept out the larger animals, but you had to be careful to keep the patio door latched when not in the room--the baboons painted on the wall a...