At last we had a lie in,getting up at 7 am as today was a leisure day. After breakfast Sidney our driver took the entire tour party to the border post so we could all walk across the bridge into Zimbabwe,our visa being for both countries. Another great view of the falls but this time not getting wet.Our passports duly stamped we entered a new country.Our fellow NZ travellers with their bags as this was where we parted company as they took a taxi to their next hotel. We took one to the Victoria falls having to haggle with the taxi driver to halve his fare to the right one. This hotel has one of the finest views of the bridge and the spray from the falls.The garden was immaculate with half a dozen gardeners busy at work. All the flowers were straight out of English country garden and in full bloom.Our NZ friends came over after dropping off their bags and we drank a glass of Zimbabwe beer on the sunny terrace with liveried staff attending to our slightest needs.It was if the Empire was still in place but now the bill was paid in US dollars as the local currency has given up the ghost. Indeed locals were trying to sell us their trillion dollar notes as souvenirs. After admiring the sumptuous drawing rooms with huge portraits of George V and Queen Mary we strolled into town through the hotel lawns all being watered to a level of greeness not seen anywhere else in Africa. Here was to be found the Barclays Bank ATM issuing notes in dollars and rands and a traditional red post box by the post office. We sat outside a trendy restaurant under umbrellas and used the free wifi. To all intent and purposes the country seemed stable and prosperous but this is a tourist hot spot and as we walked back to the border we chatted to two tourist police who pointed out an elephant to us in a little bit of swampy bush by our pathway. As we crossed the bridge back into Zambia we watched some brave people bungee jumping and gorge swinging off the middle of the bridge. Another haggle for a taxi and we were soon back at the hotel for a cup of tea and biscuit sitting on our terrace overlooking the Zambezi river in the warm sunshine.As we did so a 3 foot lizard scrambled down the tree in front of us and down towards the river.