The Journal

Letters

Dispatches from the towns and riverbanks beside Africa's great falls.

Letters are first-person dispatches from the towns, rivers and viewpoints beside Africa's great waterfalls, written by the Field Desk on the road. They capture what it is actually like to stand in the spray at Victoria Falls or to watch the Kunene break into a hundred channels at Epupa, and they end with the practical details you need to go yourself.

Stories

Letters

The Smoke That Thunders, Heard From the Inside

You hear it first. From the veranda of a hotel in Victoria Falls town, a mile from the gorge, the sound arrives as a low, continuous pressure, like…

4 min read

Letters

Where the Kunene Breaks

For two days the road north from Opuwo crosses red mountains and dry riverbeds. Then the land drops toward the Kunene, and suddenly there are palms, baobabs and…

2 min read

Enquire for more information

Plan your waterfall safari with a specialist

Tell us which falls you would love to see and when you can travel. We will reply with ideas, the best dates for the water and a quote for your trip.

Tailor-made itineraries
Timed for the water
23 waterfalls, 17 countries
Honest seasonal advice

Prefer email? dusk2dawn.explorers@gmail.com · Call +256 709 780 625