Livingstone Falls, named for David Livingstone, is a rapids of the lower Congo River in west equatorial Africa below Malebo Pool. The falls consists of a series of cascades dropping 900 ft in 220 mi (270 m in 350 km). David Livingstone David Livingstone (March 19, 1813 – May 1, 1873) was a Scottish missionary and explorer of the Victorian era, now best remembered because of his meeting with Henry Morton Stanley which gave rise to the popular quotation, // Early life Livingstone was born in the village of Blantyre, South Lanarkshire... Image of Kinshasa and Brazzaville, taken by NASA; the Congo River is visible in the center of the photograph Length 4,380 km Elevation of the source m Average discharge 41,800 m³/s Area watershed 3,680,000 km² Origin Mouth Atlantic Ocean Basin countries Dem. ... The Pool Malebo (formerly Stanley Pool, also seen as Malebo Pool), is a lake-like widening in the lower reaches of the Congo River. ... A foot (plural: feet) is a non-SI unit of distance or length, measuring around a third of a metre. ... A mile is any of several units of distance, or, in physics terminology, of length. ... A kilometre (American spelling: kilometer, symbol: km) is a unit of length equal to 1000 metres (from the Greek words khilia = thousand and metro = count/measure). ...
Facing the falls is another sheer wall of basalt, rising to the same height and capped by a mist soaked rain forest.
One special vantage point is across the knife-edge bridge, where visitors can have the finest view of the Eastern cataract and the Main falls as well as the Boiling Pot where the river turns and heads down the Batoka gorge.
Tours: daily trips to the Victoria Falls are organised and this magnificent wonder of the world is a highlight of every visitors trip.
The falls are bounded on three sides by ridges 300 or 400 feet in height, which are covered with forest, with the red soil appearing among the trees.
The entire falls are simply a crack made in a hard basaltic rock from the right to the left bank of the Zambesi, and then prolonged from the left bank away through thirty or forty miles of hills.
On the left of the island we see the water at the bottom, a white rolling mass moving away to the prolongation of the fissure, which branches off near the left bank of the river The walls of this gigantic crack are perpendicular, and composed of one homogeneous mass of rock.
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