Marvelling it how it was constructed, Clarkson says: "There's a great big gorge in the way...
it doesn't matter...
Here's what we'll do, we will build a bridge in Darlington, ship it out there and assemble it in situ and it will fit – and it did! "And here it is...
" The three cars approach the bridge on The Grand Tour The Victoria Falls bridge as seen in the programmeThe camera then pans out to reveal the vehicles are travelling 128 metres above the Zambezi River over the Victoria Falls Bridge. The views are so spectacular that, open mouthed, even Clarkson seems lost for words as he goes across the beautiful, single span arch, that defies all gravitational logic to hang almost amid the spray of the falls – of the "thundering smoke" – behind it. Jeremy Clarkson is left open mouthed by the bridgeBut if he had known the extraordinary way in which the bridge was constructed 120 years ago, he would surely have stopped to recreate the technology – and then send sidekick Hammond uncertainly across a swinging zipwire over the falls.
Businessman and colonialist Cecil Rhodes had a dream of building a railway the length of Africa, from the Cape of Good Hope in the south to Cairo in Egypt in the north, to help the spread of the British Empire. One of the railway's first major obstacles as it headed north was the Zambezi, which formed the border between Southern Rhodesia (now Zimbabwe) and Northern Rhodesia (now Zambia). Rhodes was as aware as Clarkson of the dramatic potential of.