There’s no hiding from the elements in a microlight. With no doors, windows or even a windscreen and only a handrail to grip, it’s just you, the wind and the scenery.
 

The bright blue hang gliding wings reached out above me while the small engine behind me hummed away.

The microlight rumbled down the short muddy runway and we were airborne.

Soon we were hundreds of feet over the murky Zambezi River as it flowed towards the waterfalls where a million litres of water plunge over the 103-metre drop every second, spewing spray high into the air.
 

The 1.7 kilometre-wide falls — known locally as Mosi-oa-Tunya (The Smoke That Thunders) — were discovered in 1855 by Scottish explorer David Livingstone, who named them after the reigning British monarch.
 

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