Victoria Falls Helicopter Flights – Exec Africa Travel & Tours

Victoria Falls Helicopter Flights

Overview

One of the seven natural wonders of the world, the Victoria Falls. Visit the Mosi oa tunya National Park to appreciate the Victoria Falls in all its splendor. Admire this UNESCO World heritage site on a half day tour from Livingstone .Head to the Victoria Falls Bridge as you learn about how the waterfall was formed and the different types of vegetarian and wildlife in the area.

Get up close to the water fall on a walking tour of the cascades. The falls are spectacular at any time of the year from April to August the water will be roaring .Between September and March, You can look down at the trickles of water flowing over the rocks.

At the knife edge bridge you will have one of the best views of the east and main falls as well as the boiling pot where the river turns and heads towards Batoka gorge

Helicopter Flights

Each passenger on the helicopter is guaranteed a window seat which allows photographic opportunities from both sides. Should an emergency situation arise, your flight may be cancelled and rescheduled. – Flights may also have to be cancelled due to bad weather. Indemnity & Insurance The Chikopokopo Helicopter Company has a Public Liability Insurance cover per incident.

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Short Flights Over Victoria Falls

Take off from the helicopter site and climb to a height of 1500ft above the ground, whilst approaching the magnificent Victoria Falls.

The pilot will inform you of various landmarks of interest all along the route.

You will do one and a half orbits right and left to enable the passengers on both sides of the helicopter to video, photograph and view the mighty Victoria Falls.

Once complete over the falls your pilot will fly towards back over Chamabondo National Park where one can see Elephant and Hippo dependant on the time of year.

The pilot maneuvers over to Chamabondo National Park where there are several herds of giraffe, buffalo, wildebeest and from time to time elephant.

It is a lot to see and you see it all, and believe me you do it all in just one short flight, and so from here the pilot returns to the

Long Flights Over Victoria Falls

Take off from the helipad and proceed low level over gently undulating landscape with its Baobab trees, Mopani trees and Acacia shrub, to the mighty Zambezi Gorges.

At rapid number 21 the pilot will gently lower the helicopter into the the belly of the Batoka Gorge with its 800ft towering shoulders of rock. An exciting flight down river past rapid 22 – 23 – 24 – 25. At rapid 26, which is a very long and straight rapid, the pilot increases speed to lift out of the gorge, a towering 880 ft above you.

Once clear the pilot then turns around and heads back to the fall passing several cultural villages underneath. At this stage the fall spray will be visible and at approximately 2 miles the pilot climes up to 1500ft above the ground to reveal the Majestic, the Mighty, Victoria Falls.

The final leg of this spectacular flight is Game viewing. The pilot will now proceed over Long Island, and the river on both sides of the Island looking for hippo, elephant and some of the large crocodiles that bask on the banks of the mighty Zambezi.

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