The Smoke that Thunders, as the indigenous call it, is featured among the most beautiful waterfalls in the world and with its continues 108 meters high and nearly two kilometres wide flow, it is considered the largest water curtain on the planet. The falls were discovered in the mid-19th century by the famous David Livingston and were named after the Queen of England. They are part of a couple of national parks and are the most visited tourist attraction in South Africa. More than 500 million cubic meters/ min of water plummet the basalt cliff to culminate in a cloud of vapour and to create a spectacular display of Nature's might. The best way to enjoy this beauty is either from the specially constructed for the purpose bridge or from the air. The phenomenal grandiosity is such, that even Livingston himself wrote in his journal after he first beheld Victoria that the falls are "so lovely [that they] must have been gazed upon by angels in their flight".
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