The iconic Victoria Falls has reached its highest flows in a decade in a powerful display of breathtaking beauty and intensity, but no-one is there to witness it.
The Victoria Falls rainforest was closed as Zimbabwe is in lockdown to mitigate the spread of the coronavirus.
The Zambezi River Authority public relations and communications manager, Elizabeth Karonga, said the high water levels were due to a significant increase in both rainfall and run-off in the catchment area upstream of the falls during the current rainfall season.
Data from the authority show that four times more water was now flowing over the world’s largest waterfall than at this time last year.
On the 20th of April 3-thousand, 922 cubic metres of water per second was hurtling over the falls.
The falls are expected to peak at the end of May this year.
Ross Kennedy, the chief executive of Zimbabwean hospitality group Africa Albida Tourism, said it was a sad and disappointing irony that at this time that one of the
Seven Natural Wonders of the World is at its absolute finest, the world is in lockdown and very few, if any, will get to witness or experience its raw beauty and splendour.
- African News Agency (ANA)
