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Victoria Falls

Taking its place alongside the Pyramids and the Serengeti, Victoria Falls (its original, pre-colonial name is Mosi-oa-Tunya – the ‘smoke that thunders’) is one of Africa’s original blockbusters. And although Zimbabwe and Zambia share it, Victoria Falls is a place all of its own.

Victoria Falls: a cobbled path with stone-pillar railings leads toward the wide curtain of falling water under storm clouds

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