Lunar Rainbow- Victoria Falls

Victoria Falls has predictable, regular lunar rainbows called moonbows

A night time moon rainbow or moonbow is created by the light of a full moon and water particles from the mist of a waterfall.

To look on the delicate Lunar Rainbow, which the light of the moon shining through the spray creates, is a natural wonder without equal

Occurrence

When the moon is full, the sky is relatively clear and the Victoria Falls are at their peak flow, (Jan to May) huge rainbows appear through the mist at night

This unique event, is visible the day before, the day of and the day after the full moon.

The lunar rainbow is best seen at times of high water Jan to July : the months of March, April, May, June and July are ideal as clear skies are normal and the waters have subsided

It is then that the light of the moon is refracted through the mists that rise up from the base of Victoria Falls

During high water on the Zimbabwe side you will be soaked with spray as sheets of endless water thunder into the Zambezi below. The sound is deafening as over ten million litres of water a second plunge 100 metres over the edge. (Jan to March)

Soak the Lunar Rainbow up and get soaked, even down to your knickers.

At the rising of the full moon the park stays open late, on both sides of the falls and tour operators also offer special tours

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