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		Planes... Boats... & Trains at Victoria Falls

Can any incentive event be more unique or extraordinary than stepping aboard a classic, colonial style vintage steam train and travelling to the middle of the Victoria Falls bridge for sunset cocktails; then steaming into the middle of the jungle for dinner on board? Here are some great incentive ideas.

There’s a romantic notion and ring about “Trains and Boats and Planes.” And that intoxicating mix is on offer as superb activities when your incentive or conference group stays in Livingstone (Victoria Falls), Zambia.

THE TRAINS come in two options, both vintage steam versions. The Royal Livingstone Express is a true-blue classic and every bit as luxurious and stylish as The Orient Express...and that’s some pedigree! It can take 92 people for a silver service formal dinner or 120 for a bush snack run.

Start with a sunset cocktail on the famous 100-year-old Victoria Falls Bridge, with the awesome Falls as your unique backdrop, and then steam out into the raw bush inside the Mosi-oa-Tunya National Park for dinner in the quiet remoteness of the African jungle.

Then there is the original Victoria Falls Express. The notable benefit of this authentic colonial style train is that it is stabled on the Zimbabwe side of the bridge and after bridge cocktails it can steam in to the Victoria Falls Station where guests disembark and walk 100 metres, on a red carpet, into the grand Victoria Falls Hotel for an exclusive dinner-dance in the 140-seat Livingstone Room.

THE BOATS Sunset on the Zambezi is always a magical time and the options to enjoy it are many and varied at Livingstone. The three luxury boats are The Lady Livingstone (140), The African Queen (120) and The African Princess (80) and then there are jet boat water taxis (for up to 43 people) that allow you to explore the channels and get closer to the wildlife. And for the adventurers there are canoes that stop on an island to enjoy a remote and exclusive experience. There are also several other large and small but more basic boats for the lower-cost budgets.

THE PLANES No photograph can ever do justice to the grandeur of the Victoria Falls. You have to see it to believe it! The sight, the sound, the smells, the rainbows. But before you walk along the edge in sheer amazement and disbelief it is a good idea to take a bird’s eye view from a helicopter. Only then can you take in the vastness of this mile-wide wonder that is more than twice the size of Niagara. And if you’re more adventurous then you can have this view from the seat of a micro light!