Victoria Falls- Zambia

Victoria Falls- Zambia

Zambia a landlocked country in south-central Africa Zambia, is a vast, kidney-shaped plateau most of which drains gently downward to the great Zambezi River. Although well within the tropics, it is a temperate land since it has relatively high altitude. It is generally flat, and is bordered by eight other countries.Zambia became the independent Republic of Zambia in 1964 and was a one-party state for many years before the first multi-party elections were held in 1990. Its eight million people are mostly of Bantu origin, belonging to a large number of tribes and speaking 73 different dialects, but Zambia’s official language is English English.

The economy is based on Zambia’s copper, the mining of which is the largest provider of formal employment and biggest earner of foreign exchange. Other exports include agricultural and horticultural products, gemstones, timber and cement. The quality of Zambian emeralds is said to be unsurpassed in the world.

Victoria Falls

The Victoria Falls form the greatest curtain of falling water in the world. They are 1,708 metres wide, 103 metres deep (at their highest point) and carry 500 million litres of water per minute in full flood. David Livingstone, the Scottish missionary who discovered the Falls on an African expedition in November of 1855, named it in honour of Queen Victoria, the Queen of England at the time. A wide variety of animals are found around this great natural wonder of the world. 

Their ancestries go back 150 million years to the age of the dinosaurs; a time when widespread volcanic activity changed the shape and form of southern Africa Where the Falls now thunder and rage, a huge slab of basalt was pushed up during that time.