The world's largest waterfall by combined width and height — the spray column rises 400 meters and can be seen from 50 kilometers away, creating permanent rainbows visible both day and night under a full moon.
The Kololo tribe called it Mosi-oa-Tunya — the smoke that thunders. The spray column from Victoria Falls rises 400 meters and is visible from 50 kilometers away. At peak flow, the Zambezi delivers 500,000 cubic meters of water per minute over a basalt cliff 1.7 kilometers wide and 108 meters high. The resulting mist supports a 75-meter strip of rainforest on both banks. The rainbows are constant: a primary rainbow and its reflection hang permanently in the spray. On full moon nights, lunar rainbows — moonbows — arc through the mist. David Livingstone wrote in 1855: No one can imagine the beauty of the view from anything witnessed in England. He had the restraint to admit description was failing him.