Victoria Falls Nightlife

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The big five Sports bar is the club for the young locals in Victoria Falls. It was a crowded place with load music and a small dance floor. The room next to it had a billiard table. Entrance was one dollar for mzungus (white people).

This is maybe the best club in Victoria Falls, but locals begging you for beers can be annoying.

Dress Code: Come as you are. Nobody cares about how you dress.

We went for dinner at this very colourful restaurant. They also had a local 4 piece band playing great local and other African music. This was a great experience, as the music was of a good quality and extremely enjoyable.
If you are in Vic Falls Town on a Saturday night, do try and go here

Dress Code: Not shorts and sandles

A taxi has been arranged to take us to the reastaurant for the complete dining experience. On the road there, the driver swerves to avoid a herd of buffalo crossing the road.

The members of staff at the Boma are all in traditional costumes; it is a big and commericalised place, it is so obviously arranged for tourists.

This is a BBQ with a difference. As well as all the usual meats: pork, chicken, beef and lamb, there is buffalo, crocodile, kudu, wathog, ostrich and impala. OUr favourite is warthog, very juicy, tender and tasty. With the meat we have two bottles of Zimbabwean Pinotage.

In a little hut by the entrance, the shaman is charging US$1 to tell you your fortune. I am predicted to have a long life, some illness but it will not be life-threatening, and my career will take a surprising turn. David is also to have a long life, no illnesses and a successful career.

There is also a story teller walking around the tables reciting traditional folk tales, as well as a hair braider.

The chap from the sundowner cruise is part of the dance troupe performing for the guests, and he recognises us, which is nice.

The whole experience could have been tasteless, but it is actually very well done, and we really enjoy the evening, even though we eat and drink too much.

The traditional Makishi dances at the Falls Craft Village are the higlight of the evening.
Especially the stilt and pole dances are breathtaking, when one of the characters danced on the top of two slender poles.
I liked the masks,representing the different characters, very much.

The Makishi dancers enacted a traditional set of dances in magnificient costumes of woven natural fiber and with masks painted in the colors red, black and white.
All the masks have its meaning, such as the Mongole (the hyena) , threatening and evil, and Nalindele, the wayward girl.

In the Craft Village in Victoria Falls town we visited a performance of traditional dances.
There are different ethnical groups from the area, who performed the dances.
We enjoyed this great and interesting spectacle of drumming and dancing.
One of the first dances was a war dance in the traditional Zulu costumes.

actually i have never been on the bar i walked outside of it......
as far as i knew every night the bar displayed rafting video of that morning some rafting players can buy or can see their "show" in the bar

Might as well put my first African SunSet
here. Wasn't even in Zimbabwe 6hrs. Already about to do the Elephant Ride. This is what the shy looked like. I know it isn't that good.
I promise it does get better.
10/1999

Dress Code: your camera