The Falls are 1.7 km wide with a volume of 9 million litres per second tearing down at a vertical drop of 100 metres. The spray of the falls can be clearly seen from a distance of 30km and hence it's local name, Mosi-oa-Tunya, "The smoke that thunders".
Take a walk across the knife-edge bridge for a spectacular view of the eastern cataract and up the main gorge. A walk down the stairs to the Boiling Pot provides an interesting view from the base of the falls and the Victoria Falls Bridge spanning the gorge.
Downstream of the falls, the river has carved a tortuous route through the
soft basalt rock, forming a deep gorge in a tight zigzag course for some
eight kilometres. This is a result of the repeated cutting back of the line
of the falls and the successive formation and abandonment of seven previous
broad waterfalls, a process that has taken about 100,000 years.
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