What is Victoria Falls?

Victoria Falls is a massive waterfall in South Africa, one of the largest waterfalls in the world. It expands the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe and has become a remarkable tourist attraction due to its beauty and attractiveness of the surrounding African environment. Given that Victoria Falls has become such a popular place to visit, it is generally easy to find accommodation there, thanks to a wide range of hotels in this area. The first European to see the falls was David Livingstone, who was obviously dissatisfied with the African name Falls, mosi-oa-tunya , which means "smoke that storm". He named Falls for Queen Victoria, after a long established convention among British explorers to name new places and monuments after the king or Queen of Britain.

For Livingstone, Falls Been must have a surprising and amazing look. The sound of the waterfalls can be heard from a long distance and in the rainy season you can see a spray from Victoria Falls. During the drought period is also quite impressive, although the flow rate is significantreduced. Technically, Victoria Falls is not the highest or widest waterfall in the world, but the total water area is greater than any known waterfall and certainly much larger than Niagra Falls, another known waterfall.

falls appear in one of the widest points of the Zambezi River. They are caused by a stream of the river into a very narrow, extremely deep ravine that causes the harbor to bend sharply to the east. Because the gorge appears at such a wide point in the river, the volume of water that suddenly rushes along the side. Thanks to the gorge, people can look at the falls from the other side of the ravine. The first Zigzagging several times before the river gently east, where it meets the Indian Ocean.

In 1989, Victoria Falls was described as a world heritage. In addition to the falls themselves, there is also a place of abundance of African plants and animals, which makes it an exciting and interesting place to visit. Visitors can go for walks around toThey have explored it, and in certain seasons they can even swim on the brink of waterfalls in a natural pool known as the devilish pool.

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