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Imagine this: you\u2019re a fisherman going about your business in the Zambezi River. It\u2019s the dry season and the usually roaring Victoria Falls are a slow gush. You\u2019re standing on the rocky Livingstone Island when suddenly you lose your footing.<\/p>\n

It might be the dry season but there\u2019s still more than two million cubic metres of water per minute crashing 108m below. Your life is flashing before your eyes. Just as you approach the precipice, bracing for certain death, you splash into a pool the size of a Jacuzzi, literally on the edge of the mighty falls. That\u2019s the true story of how Devil\u2019s Pool was found.<\/p>\n

The local name for Victoria Falls is Mosi-oa-Tunya, the Smoke that Thunders, and even in the dry season you can hear the roar and see the mist from a kilometre away.<\/p>\n

Scottish preacher and explorer David Livingstone was the first European to see the falls in 1855, and he named them after Queen Victoria, reigning at the time.<\/p>\n

The closest township was named after David \u2013 Livingstone is about 10km from Victoria Falls on the Zambian side. You can stay in the town or closer to the falls.<\/p>\n

To get to the Devil\u2019s Pool, you need to go to Livingstone Island, a small island right near the top of the falls. Tours leave from the\u00a0Royal Livingstone Hotel<\/a>\u00a0and travel out to the island by motorboat. Save time to check out the hotel itself too \u2013 think Zebra skin rugs and colonial buildings a la Out of Africa.<\/p>\n

You can only get to Livingstone Island during the dry season. During the rainy season (November to Aril) more than 625 million litres of water per minute flows over the edge of the falls, taking flotsam, jetsam and the occasional hippo with it.<\/p>\n

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