"Water Cobra"

Kalambo Falls, Zambia

	Left: Zambian southeastern shore of Lake Tanganyika with main locations indicated
	Above: Kalambo Falls on the Zambia-Tanzania border

Locations for OBA film 4:3
Lake Tanganyika
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Kalambo Falls, 235m (772ft) in a straight drop, 2nd highest single drop falls in Africa

We made one visit to the famous Kalambo Falls on the Zambia-Tanzania border. The journey involved a boat journey back to Mpulungu, retracing the road to Mbala and then a 30km drive to the Falls from Mbala. It is possible to reach the Falls on foot from Luke's Bay but with television film equipment that was not such a suitable option.

We took a break at Mbala to visit the Moto Moto Museum. The museum as established in the 1940s by Father Jean Jacques Corbeil and named in honour of Bishop Joseph Dupont of the Catholic "White Fathers" of the late 19th-early 20th century, who was locally known as "Moto Moto", meaning "fire fire". The museum is primarily a cultural collection but it does include some natural history specimens so we visited to check the snake collection for water cobras - there were none.

Kalambo Falls and the Kalambo River Gorge are also amongst the most important archeological sites in Africa with signs of human habitation dating back to 300,000BC, including some of the earliest evidence of the use of fire.

At 235m (772ft) Kalambo Falls is the second highest single drop waterfall in Africa (after Tugula Falls in South Africa). It is impressive.

Mark at the top of Kalambo Falls preparing for a "piece to camera"

The Kalambo River approaches the falls	235m (772ft) below into the gorge
The Kalambo Gorge is 1km wide	The top of the Kalambo Falls