#TRAVEL My Weekly Powerup | #club100 | Victoria Falls - the widest waterfall in the world | #steemexclusive / 15 photos

As I told you in my previous post one week ago, the plan was to visit the Victoria Falls National Park the next day. We did just that. Getting close to such a mighty waterfall was quite an overwhelming feeling. It did get wet in some places, but we were prepared. We had brought raincoats with us. Two countries, Zimbabwe and Zambia, can both offer stunning views of the falls. When we walked along the trail on Zimbabwes side, we could look over to Zambia. A few days later we went to the Zambian side. You can see the steam from the falls more than 30 kilometers away. Because it can look like smoke, the falls have also been called "The Smoke that Thunders". We saw the spray from the air before we landed at the Victoria Falls airport. That is some 20 kilometers from the falls and the town of the same name. The Victoria Falls have been on UNESCO's World Heritage List since 2007.

Dr.David Livingstone

Map of the falls

The entrance is less than a couple of kilometers from the town Victoria Falls, so we were able to walk. After paying the ticket (50USD) we started to walk along the path close to the falls. There are several viewpoints along the way. In some places it was so wet that raincoats were necessary. My camera had to hide underneath. To walk along the path, from one viewpoint to the next, was a spectacular walk. The noice did sound like thunder and the spray did look like smoke.

The falls are located almost half way along the Zambezi River, which has a length of 2700 kilometers before reaching the sea. The river plunges into a 100 meter vertical gorge. The fall spans approximately 1700 meters in width. This is one an a half time wider than the Niagara Falls. This curtain of water makes is what makes Victoria Falls the widest fall in the world. In 1958 the highest flow of water was recorded. It reached more than 700.000 cubic meters a minute. This flow coursed the water in the gorge to rise 18 meters. The amount of water varies with the seasons. The peak with most water occur around April. Within a minute, some 625 million litres of water will flow over the edge. This huge amount causes a spray that can rise close to 1600 feet up into the air. No wonder it is visible from a long distance.

Devils Pool

Now we are at the end on the trail. From here we can look across the gorge where the border between the two countries are. This is also the place where we can look down into "Devils Pool".

Dr.David Livingstone became famous because of his travels in Africa. It was in 1855 that he, as the first European saw the falls. He named the falls after the British Queen Victoria.