The falls straddle the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe, in the heart of two national parks -- the Mosi-oa-Tunya park on the Zambian side and the Victoria Falls park in Zimbabwe, which collectively form a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
The falls are 741ft, almost five times the height of Niagara and two times the height of Victoria Falls.
When Celtel, a mobile-phone operator, set up in Zambia eight years ago, it concentrated on the densely populated corridor between Victoria Falls (on the border with Zimbabwe), Lusaka and the industrial copper belt.
Five priorities have been set out in the plan agreed in the resort town of Victoria Falls: restoring human rights, addressing security concerns, stabilising the economy, building infrastructure and re-engaging the international community.
As you approach Victoria Falls from the nearby town of Livingstone, you first have to pass a larger-than-life statue of the explorer.
In the next show, I'll show you the magnificent views below and above Victoria Falls.
Former political rivals may have faced each other and bonded, Zimbabwean journalist Brian Hungwe reports from Victoria Falls, but the big task now is implementation.
Cyclists can loop over Hotham and Falls Creek on the Queen Victoria Ride, completing a 240km circuit with around 4, 000m of climb in three or four days.
And it is the way that Magadonga Mahlangu and Jenni Williams and the women and men who take to the streets of Harare and Bulawayo and Victoria Falls because they love their country and love their children and know that something better is possible.
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Beautiful Lumangwe, a wide wall of water that thunders into the Kalungwishi River filling the air with fine mist, looks like Victoria Falls in miniature.
In 1975, in Rhodesia, formerly Southern Rhodesia, talks between the white minority government and black leaders opened in railway carriages near Victoria Falls.
They came to Victoria Falls believing that their victory in western Congo gave them the cards they needed.
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