A short boat ride will take you to Cataract Island where you will enjoy a guided tour of the island and witness its it’s unique geology. Even if you are not brave enough to plunge into The Pools

The Victoria Falls or (Mosi-oa-Tunya: The Smoke that Thunders) is a waterfall located on the Zambezi River stretching across the countries of Zambia and Zimbabwe. The Falls are believed to be the largest in the world in terms of the sheer volume of water that flows over it.

These ancient, and truly spectacular Falls were first made known to the outside world in 1855 by Scottish explorer extraordinaire, Dr David Livingstone. Livingstone had been attempting to find a route to the East Coast of the African continent, when he stumbled upon this magnificent site. Travelling south-east from Luanda (Angola) to Sesheke (Zambia), he encountered this most magnificent waterfall and renamed it The Victoria Falls after the British Monarch, Queen Victoria. Livingstone was led to The Falls by the Makalolo tribe’s people in a dug-out canoe.

Soon after Livingstone’s reports about the Victoria Falls spread across borders, The Falls began to attract Anglo traders. A rustic trading settlement was set-up on what is now the Zambian riverbank and became the original Victoria Falls town called Old Drift. The number of foreign visitors rose steadily and people walked, rode on horseback or travelled by ox-wagon from the Transvaal in South Africa to view The Falls. Malaria began to take its toll on the settlement and at the turn of the century, Old Drift was shifted to the site of the present-day city of Livingstone in Zambia.

There are two islands on the crest of The Falls that are large enough to divide the curtain of water even at full flood: Baoruka Island (or Cataract Island) close to the western bank and Livingstone Island near the middle—the point from which Livingstone first viewed The Falls.

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