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Boundless Southern Africa Expedition 18

Boundless Southern Africa Expedition 18

Author: Kingsley Holgate
Date: 2018-03-09

Zigzagging back into Zim

Our long line of Landies cross back into Zimbabwe at Kazungula - Zim National Parks, TFCA officials and the mayor of Victoria Falls meet us on the banks of the Zambezi.

Matabele dancers do a foot stomping dance, their old Sindabele warrior songs hark back to Mzilikazi's time and make us homesick for Zululand where we lived, in the shadow of Kwabuluwayo in the Nkwaleni Valley from where the Matabele came. A banner welcomes the Boundless Expedition back into Zimbabwe, elephants drink, African skimmers swoop, the sun sets over our favourite river, we camp under a giant leadwood tree,there's the grunting of hippo, a lion roars.

There are no fences to prevent animals from moving throughout this vast area, and into Chobe National Park in northern Botswana. Although estimates vary, it is thought that between 30 and 50000 elephants live in this region - the greatest remaining concentration of these pachyderms on Earth

"Feeeesh!" roars the crowd as popular Bafana Bafana champion Mark Fish demonstrates his ballskills. Today the &Beyond Foundation have joined forces with the Expedition at the Chinotimba soccer field outside Mosi ou Tunya - the Smoke that Thunders, the World Heritage Site of Victoria Falls, where it's another Boundless soccer game.

The day starts with drum majorettes, xylophones, the mayor of Vic Falls, councilor Inkosilathi Jiyani opens the proceedings. At the Chinotimba soccer field, there's the spray of the falls in the background, the music pumping, it's half time.

Mark Fish is giving a little soccer clinic to kids. The score is 1 to Matetsi, 0 to Victoria Falls Hotel - it's a nail-biting game, the sound of the vuvuzelas is deafening. It's the team from Vic Falls Hotel that takes the Boundless Soccer trophy. Will keep you posted.