Vegetation - Victoria Falls

Despite its name the Victoria Falls Rain Forest is not a true rainforest, but an unusually dense section of riverine forest sustained by the mist from the waterfall.

You can wander amongst pod mahogany, ebony, ivory palm and wild date palms groves, with creepers and lianas twirling up their trunks. All these plant species are found hardly anywhere else in Zambia or Zimbabwe and one fern, Cheilanthes farinose, is found nowhere else in the world apart from two localities in Zambia.

Once you move away from the dripping forest it's back to the dry miombo and mopane woodland typical of the area, punctuated with acacias and the occasional monstrous baobab.

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