This river safari along the Zambezi costs just over $16,000 a person – and similar itineraries can be arranged for between $8,000 and $20,000 a person.

The Palm River Hotel also offers indoor dining in the hotel’s grand dining hall and on the restaurant terrace, offering a lovely setting within the natural surroundings of the hotel.

Here, 1000 kilometres from its source, the Zambezi River expands into the world’s largest sheet of falling water, billowing over a lengthy basalt wall and smashing into Batoka Gorge far below.

For instance, the source of Africa’s second largest river by volume, the Cassai, a tributary of the Congo, is the Munhango River in the Angolan Highlands, and the source of the Zambezi River isn ...

Water rushes around me as I scoot closer to the rocky edge. I’m lying on my stomach, peering down through the mist as the Zambezi River thunders 300 feet into the craggy chasm that unfolds below ...