Unfortunately today marked the end of our overloading adventure through Namibia, Botswana, Zambia and Zimbabwe. The plan was for us to start the day with an early morning helicopter ride over Victoria Falls, however the weather had some other ideas.
After a few hours of waiting for the low cloud to lift, we had some brief excitement when another group took off, but they were back 2 minutes later, as the visibility was so poor. At this point the provider took us back to our hotel room so that we could pack up and check out, before bringing us back, so that we could hopefully fly later in the morning.
Thankfully as we were heading back to the Heliport, we saw both helicopters starting their engines, definitely a good sign. When we arrived we were informed that it all looked good and we would be on the next wave, in our own helicopter. This turned out to be even better than expected, as it meant that we were both on the left hand side as I was in the front seat which resulted in us doing multiple circles in the same direction, rather than having other alternate so that both sides could see.
The view from the air was really spectacular, and was a great way to see the full scale of the falls, and the gorge below. I would certainly recommend it, it would just have been slightly better if the sun was shining.
After our enjoyable flight, our taxi driver came to pick us up for the 30min drive to the airport, to, very sadly, end our overloading trip.
In the end, in total we travelled over 4600km over 21 days and visited 6 countries (Day 0 being our arrival day in Windhoek). We saw some absolutely mind-blowing scenery with desert, dunes, volcanic craters, sea side, dunes into the sea, mountains, rivers, marshlands, so many animals and waterfalls. Such an unforgettable trip.
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