The Victorian Falls town — devil's pool at the lip of the world's largest waterfall, bream nshima from riverside fish markets, and sunsets over the Zambezi
Livingstone is Zambia's most visited city — a colonial-era town on the Zambezi River named after the Scottish explorer David Livingstone, who was the first European to document Victoria Falls in 1855. The falls themselves are on the Zimbabwe border (shared between Zambia and Zimbabwe), but Livingstone is the more established base: the natural swimming pool known as Devil's Pool sits at the very lip of the 108-metre drop on Livingstone Island, accessible only during the low-water season (September–December). The Zambezi sunset boat cruises, whitewater rafting below the falls, and bungee jumpin…
The area around Victoria Falls had been known to the Lozi kingdom of the Barotse floodplain and the Toka-Leya people (who called the falls 'Mosi-oa-Tunya' — the smoke that thunders) long before European arrival. David Livingstone reached the falls in 1855 and named them after Queen Victoria — the first time a European had documented them. The British South Africa Company (Cecil Rhodes's company) established the town of Livingstone in 1905 as the administrative capital of Northwestern Rhodesia; it served as the capital of Northern Rhodesia (later Zambia) until 1935 when the capital moved to Lu…