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March 29, 2019

Ever Wanted To Surf The Last Wave Of The Zambezi? Check This Awesome Video

The mighty Zambezi is known for its river rafting and mean rapids, but did you know there's a pretty gnarly wave, too? Two SA surfers went looking for it.

Surfers are always after the ultimate wave, and they’ll travel to far-flung corners of the world to find it.

One place I wouldn’t have thought to check is the mighty Zambezi River on the Zambian side, because it’s a landlocked country far removed from the coastline.

Now, in a very cool new video collaboration between Cars.co.za and surf magazine Zigzag, a team of South African surfers set off in search of a rare and powerful wave that is uniquely African.

Here’s the video description from the Cars.co.za YouTube video:

With surfboards strapped to the roof of a first-generation Toyota Fortuner, the crew including talented surfers, Koby Oberholzer and ex-World Championship Tour campaigner, Royden Bryson, set off from Durban on an unorthodox surf trip that would take them across South Africa, Botswana and finally, Zambia, covering well over 6 000 km’s on this journey…

The elusive standing wave on the Zambezi River is a rare phenomenon that hardly ever breaks, but when it does, it’s raw, powerful and laced with danger. Armed with life vests, helmets and Nyami-Nyamis for protection in the gorge and on the river, Koby and Royden took a leap of faith and scored the wave of a lifetime.

Off you go then, chaps:

It’s a damn shame that the wave’s future is being threatened, but at least these two surfers got to give it a bash before that happens.

[source:cars]