Vic Falls Carnival: Final big event of the year

Isdore Guvamombe Travel Editor
For the tourism and hospitality industry, the countdown to 2014 has already started with the coming of the festive season, where merrymaking, pomp and fanfare rule the roost. After successfully hosting the United Nations World Tourism Organisation General Assembly and the Hospitality Association of Zimbabwe Congress, Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe’s tourism and adventure capital, will once again play host to the final big event of the year: the Jameson Victoria Falls Carnival.

It has been slated for December 27 to 31.
The carnival brings together the tourism and hospitality industry family through music, dance, street processions and tours to various attractions that make Victoria Falls one of the greatest attractions in the world.

For three days, participants will have an opportunity to experience Victoria Falls, courtesy of Wild Horizons and enjoy the range of activities like white water rafting, sunset river cruises, Upper Zambezi canoeing, elephant back safaris, Vic Falls canopy tours, gorge swinging and adventure slides, bungee jumping or bridge swinging, helicopter flips over the mighty Victoria Falls, Devil’s Pool, Party Steam Train, Victoria Falls Tram and bridge tours, lion encounters and much, much more.

Over the past few years, the carnival has grown bigger in terms of participants and the range of attractions on offer.
Combine Southern Africa’s biggest artists, the world’s greatest adventures and activities, with a New Year’s countdown like nowhere else on Earth, and you have arrived at the Jameson Victoria Falls Carnival!

Last year, there was South African songbird Zahara and Oliver Mtukudzi, strumming the guitars into the New Year.
This year the organisers are courting a coterie of equally big artistes.

The list is now being finalised although Africa’s biggest artists, from Zimbabwe’s Mokoomba to Zambia’s Mampi, Just Jinjer, ISO and Shortstraw, to name a few, have already confirmed they will take to the stage and bring together everyone in music, fun and celebration.

This is the festival’s second year and with Jameson and DStv on board, it promises to be a much bigger and better spectacle than last year.
Already, hotels in the resort town are fully booked for the event and some people are now looking for alternative accommodation in private homes.