Jumping from Victoria Falls
Victoria Falls Jump ------------------------------- --------------- ---------------- As Gogol said, the Victoria Falls are wonderful in clear weather : ) In the local language, the waterfall is called “Thundering Smoke” (“Mosi-oa-tunya”). And not without reason - this is the second most powerful waterfall in the world (after the complex of Iguazu Falls in South Africa). But, unlike Iguazu, this is one holistic stream. During the rainy season, Victoria Falls erupts 9.000 cubic meters (9 million liters) per second. In just a day, almost a cubic kilometer of water flows through it - a volume sufficient for a meter flood of Moscow within the Moscow Ring Road Wonderful Victoria Falls in clear weather. . . It's a pity that clear weather happens only away from him. . . In high water, due to such power, and unlike the Dnieper, it is clear here only on the northern, pre-waterfall side. But there is a waterfall with its back to you, and the Zambezi River is widely spilled into the rapids sea - there is nowhere to go. And the entire south side is covered in water dust, rain coming from above, and from below, and from all sides. Wet to the underpants. Occasionally a gust of wind blows away the curtain and powerful streams on the other side of the gorge and bridges of rainbows leading to the very hell of the pit become visible. double, with a light sky inside and a dark sky outside the rainbow At the very bottom, in the gorge, the foamed Zambezi meanders And a little away from the waterfall, you can ride over the Zambezi - like on a cable car: you hoot down, holding on to the wheel tied to the rope...... then they lift you back Another attraction is called something like "giant swing" - first you fly vertically down, almost to the end of the gorge, and then you are picked up and, like on a swing, go forward. People who have tried different extreme jumps say that this one is the scariest of all. It's really scary - you fly for a long time right on the stones, and not upside down, but straight ahead - you see how the earth is approaching. They even told me before the jump "don't look down, otherwise it will be too scary", but then what's the point? I came just to be scared. And if you look down, you feel almost like suicide. A rare bird will fly to the middle of the Victoria Falls. . . ------------------------------- Ales Mishchenko