Zambia

Victoria Falls.  Neither the world's highest nor widest falls, but it has the world's "largest sheet of falling water"(!). 

You must wear a rain coat at many viewpoints because the amount of spray coming off the falls is huge, and creates a mini-rainforest around the drop-off.

I saw kids in the capital hunting birds for food with these slingshots.

I ate twice at this great restaurant in the capital.

The puree on the right is mashed white maize and is eaten every day with various side dishes. Fork = Westerner. 

The whirlpool below the falls and under the Victoria Falls Bridge (rail & road).  Dead hippos and crocs sucked over the falls are sometimes found whirling about here.

Monitor lizard

Witchcraft items at the Zambian national museum. "Policemen could not see" the owner when he held this walking stick.

Weed pipe to "gain courage".  The owner "once chased the District Commissioner when he had smoked cannabis." 

This is a cliff across from the falls. The small falls here result solely from the spray coming off Victoria Falls.

I know almost all tourists say about almost all places, "the locals were so warm."  But guys would pass me on the street and say "You're looking good today, sir."

Termite mound

Itinerary: One week of solo travel in Lusaka (the capital), Livingstone and around Victoria Falls.

Animals seen: A big Nile monitor lizard, praying mantis, beautiful black wasps with bright orange abdomens, chacma baboons, African fish eagles, dragonflies of many colors, golden orb-web spiders, black-headed herons, Schalow's turaco, village weavers, a dung beetle, and a black-necked spitting cobra (briefly opening its hood and only 2 meters away....).