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Victoria Falls High Wire ActivitiesHave you ever looked up into the sky and thought that you would love to be able to fly like a bird! Glide through gorges or swoop down over the river. Well this no longer needs be a fanciful dream....
Gorge Swing Leap of Faith These High Wire activities like the bungee jump are for the total Adrenaline Junkie. The gorge swing especially is terrifying and why people pay to do it I am not quite sure, but they do...It will simply blow you away! Basically there are four main high wire activities..
Abseiling: The most gentle of these high-wire stunts, you get clipped in and descend at you own pace down the side of of a sheer 120m cliff into the remarkable gorges below the Falls. Flying Fox: You get clipped into a harness which is attached to a pulley which then glides along an almost horizontal cable across the gorge, 125m above the valley floor. This gives you the sensation of flying. It looks tame in comparison to the Foofie slide and Gorge swing, but I promise you this is still a thrilling experience, and requires great courage. Foofie Slide: this is similar to the Flying Fox but here the cable is not horizontal it is at an extreme angle so once you let go you accelerate down hill at speeds of over 100km/h. It is extremely exhilarating and unbelievably fast. This can be done single or tandem. It is also twice the distance as flying fox. Gorge Swing: leave your stomach behind, this is only for the totally insane. Your harness is attached to a rope, the rope is attached to the middle of a cable that runs across the full width of the gorge. Once you are all set, you stand on a platform on the edge of a sheer 120m cliff, say a quick prayer and jump off - How crazy is that, you jump off and free fall for about 70m straight towards the rocks and river below, then as the rope becomes taught you will start to arc and thankfully swing away from the rocks you were hurtling towards fractions of a seconds ago. Although it looks like the most insane thing to do, everyone who does it, is on such a high afterwards. There are two separate companies Offering high wire activities in Zimbabwe, both of which are extremely good and professional. Their standards of safety are exemplary, they use only the best equipment available, and strict records are keep as to how many times each rope, harness etc has been used. The equipment is then replaced at the required intervals. The Zambezi Adrenaline Company (also do the Bungee and are affiliated to Shearwater they operate off the Victoria Falls bridge (passport required) and Wild Horizons whose operation is in the gorges a little further down river (no passport required) The pictures shown here and the descriptions I have given are all for the Wild Horizons High Wire operation. The Shearwater Big Air operation is slightly different in that it is
operates off the
Victoria
Falls Bridge so it doesn't have the Foofie slide or the abseil, but it does
have the Gorge swing, (called by them bridge swing - see video below) and flying fox (called by them a bridge slide) and of
course it has the bonus of the Bungee Jump.
View this short Shearwater Video of their Bridge Swing.
Facts * Minimum age 10 years
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