Victoria Falls in September

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Did you know that Makgadikgadi Salt Pans are the remnant of an ancient lake (paleolake) produced by geological uplift which blocked the course of the upper Zambezi and this lake eventually created the Victoria Falls? The damming of the river redirected the flow away from where it once met the Limpopo.

Did you know that Makgadikgadi Salt Pans are the remnant of an ancient lake (paleolake) produced by geological uplift which blocked the course of the upper Zambezi ꟷ and this lake eventually created the Victoria Falls? The damming of the river redirected the flow away from where it once met the Limpopo. Over time, the lake eventually overflowed and through painstaking erosion via fault lines in the basalt (cooled lava), the Falls and its tight gorge were born. Who’d have known there was a connection? Makgadikgadi and the world’s largest curtain of falling water (taking into account height, width and volume, that is).

If you aren’t lucky enough to do a helicopter flip over the Falls, you don’t realise that there is in fact a lazy zigzag of eight gorges through which the Zambezi River channels ꟷ evidence that the waterfall had seven previous positions as, over eons, it slowly, tenaciously, cut its erosive path through the basalt.

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