150 million years after their birth in the Jurassic period – Mosi oa Tunya (The smoke that thunders) is still the major tourist attraction of Africa. "Scenes so lovely must have been gazed upon by angels in their flight." So exclaimed the first white man to set eyes on the mighty Falls, missionary-explorer Dr. David Livingstone who happened upon their immensity and awesome grandeur in 1855 after approaching, intrigued, "five columns of vapour rising 250 feet to mingle with the clouds". Victoria Falls Is made up of five separate falls: Devil's Cataract, Horseshoe Falls, Main Falls, Rainbow Falls and the Eastern Cataract. In mid rains, 545 million litres of water a minute crash down the 100-metre height of the Falls along their 1688 metre width. Collectively the falls are twice as tall as those at Niagara and one and half times as long. The Falls can be viewed spectacularly from the Rain Forest, with its exotic lushness of ferns, lianas, orchids and "red hot pincushions. Below the falls the narrow Batoka Gorge compresses mountains of water into a tumbling mass of rapids and whirlpools that are home to the worlds greatest whitewater rafting experience.