We finished Vic Falls with a an amazing day which included repelling,zip lines, and the infamous Gorge Swing.
After Youtubing Gorge swing, this was a leading factor as to why I wanted to come to Africa. I knew it was a must, just watching the video made my adrenaline rush.
Mark and I paid for a full day at the gorge swing with the other activities, and low and behold we were the only ones there. It was like being at Astroworld with no one else.
We started with repelling/abseiling. It was a straight drop and we got hooked up and since we had just done it 2 weeks back we felt like pros/swat team members.
Next was the zip line, which was basically a wire from canyon side to canyon side and you basically just run and jump off the cliffs edge and fly to the other side. They did have to pull you back by a rope while youre hovering over the canyon, this was the scariest part.
Next was repelling frontwards down the mountain, this was awful scary. I chickened out at first but manned up and did it. The first 20 feet was terrifying then it became fun.
We then went to the gorge swing. It was crazy looking. I went first. They hook you up to two harnessed as you walk up to the cliffs edge. There's three ways to go off the edge, the first one is you do it backwards and basically the guide pushes you off. It's a 5 second free fall before the swing catches in. I walked to the edge turned around and the guide counted from three. I was then pushed off. It was the longest 5 seconds and thrill of my life. You look like youre about to hit the canyon bottom when the swing catches and you fly through the canyon. Once the swing caught, both Mark and I just started screaming and cursing in the thrill the 1 we were still alive and 2 how amazing it was. We did it two more times- 1 frontwards which was very scary and the last time stepping off backwards.Ill never get over the thrill or the feeling. It was close to if not better than sky diving.
We were off on 36 straight hours of bus rides to Blantyre Malawi. Luckily as so many problems occured, horrible bus smells, and break downs, we had 3 others with us, two Israeli women and a girl from Holland to share the experience with.
