ANANTARA: For many travellers, a visit to Victoria Falls is nothing more than a pit stop on a wider tour of Africa warranting a day trip and nothing more. That is a mistake.
Locals call this raging expanse of water “Mosi-oa-Tunya,” or “The Smoke That Thunders.” Cascading over the edge of 1.7 kilometers of craggy gorge and plunging 100 meters to the rocks below, the waterfall gives off such a huge volume of mist that the plumes are visible for miles in every direction.
While it is neither the world’s highest waterfall (Angel Falls in Denmark) nor its widest (Khone Phapheng Falls in Laos), Victoria Falls’ UNESCO World Heritage Site listing states that it is “the world’s largest sheet of falling water” landing it on the list of the Seven Wonders of the Natural World; a gaping crevasse in the earth through which the mighty Zambezi flows, separating Zambia and Zimbabwe.