We started our last morning in Vic Falls with a lecture about David Livingstone given by a local school teacher who had lived in Zimbabwe  since she was two years old. I must admit, I did not do my research about Livingstone before coming to Africa, and assumed he was your average European who came here to claim land, start colonies, and exploit the local people who had been living here, quite happily, for thousands of years. I was quite wrong in these assumptions.  While he did want to convert the tribal people to Christianity, he was an extraordinary explorer, and a fierce abolitionist, who was nearly single handedly responsible for stopping the slave trade from the eastern part of Africa to the Middle East through the port in Mozambique. He was a remarkable man who is honored and revered in all of the southern part of the African continent. We learned a great deal about a remarkable man. This is one of the reasons we love to travel, and especially with OAT. They have a lot of cultural immersion activities you are able to take advantage of. Traveling broadens our knowledge base, opens our eyes, and immerses is into ideas and cultures we don’t experience in our small world at home. After the lecture, we were treated to a lovely performance with by a local Zimbabwe singing group.