adventure

2 essays tagged “adventure”.

The Remarkables mountains reflect in Lake Wakatipu near Queenstown.

Queenstown, New Zealand

Queenstown: the New Zealand adventure capital between the lake and the peaks

Queenstown sits on the shore of Lake Wakatipu under the jagged Remarkables peaks. It is the most adventure-sport-marketed town in the world — bungy, jet boats, paragliding, skydiving. The mountains and the lakes, however, are the actual reason to come.

December 4, 2022

Spray rises from the wide curtain of Victoria Falls on the Zambezi.

Africa

Livingstone, Zambia

Victoria Falls: the smoke that thunders on the Zambezi

Victoria Falls (Mosi-oa-Tunya, 'the smoke that thunders' in Lozi) is 1.7 km wide and drops 108 m, with a peak-season volume that throws spray a kilometre into the sky. A guide to seeing it without rushing, and to combining it with the upper Zambezi.

August 10, 2022