The falls are every bit as immense and outstanding as you imagined, their sound greater than a million travelling wildebeests, and their mists noticeable from forty miles away. Dr. David Livingstone, who in 1855 became the first European to visit them, named them after his queen who regrettably would never see them; they were soon widely renowned as one of the natural marvels of the world.

A dream destination of every adventure traveller, the falls are more than one kilometre wide, spanning the whole width of the Zambezi River. As they crash 400 feet to the ravine below, they generate an elusive, everlasting shower of rain, rainbows, and lunar rainbows that drift in and out of sight.

At sunrise and sunset the sky, water, and fog take on hues of pink and orange, particularly during the wet season from March to May, when the flows are at their maximum capacity and the obscure spray is kicked 1,000 feet into the sky. It is easy to imagine Dr. Livingstones admiration as he wrote: On sights as beautiful as this, Angels, in their flight must have stared. So was named today's fifteen-minute heart-stopping Flight of the Angel" over the falls, which rates as one of the world's most picturesque plane trips.