Zambia’s best-known attraction is the awe-inspiring Victoria Falls, one of the World's Seven Natural Wonders and a UNESCO World Heritage Site, known locally as Mosi-oa-Tunya or 'The Smoke Which Thunders’. This incredible waterfall is simply stunning - made up of no less than 6 gorges, the first of which receives the entire volume of water from the Zambezi River, before branching off, 150 metres below, into a zigzagging series of secondary gorges. The noise emanating from this collection of falling waters is simply astonishing - and in the harsher rainy season, a thick swirl of mist is constantly seen hovering above the river - making for one of the world’s most mysterious and most enchanting of scenes. Built across the second gorge is a railway bridge that links Zambia to Zimbabwe - it was the brainchild of Cecil Rhodes, who had hoped to eventually link north and south Africa by one rail line - a proposition that was never fulfilled, but could still be possible in the future.
