ZIMBABWE - Victoria Falls - Lunar Rainbow  click to see Moon Rainbow tour...

Two locations noted for their frequent moon bow observations are Kentucky's Cumberland Falls and Africa's Victoria Falls. Ther bows form from drops in the waterfall mist. A night time moon rainbow or moon bow is created by the light of a full moon and water particles from the mist of a waterfall. Victoria Falls has predictable, regular lunar rainbows called moon bows 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, 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 – the months of March, April, May, June and July. 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. Soak the moon bow 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.

For one moment the falls’ spume lifts
an aerie veil flowing across the trail
like a beautiful woman
trailing draperies, when the

Bow arcs and bends shimmering in
a gauzy wash of light and mist the
moon’s brief kiss
blushes into colour.
                                                                 by unknown poet
 

A MOON BOW TOUR NOT TO MISS!
Visit the Victoria Falls Parks Rainforest on the dates indicated below and enjoy magical unforgettable night experience in a guided moonlight viewing tour of the Falls. For three nights each month (one on either side of the actual full moon date) the Rainforest is open for a dramatic lunar rainbow – a rare natural phenomenon.

LUNAR CALENDAR FOR MOON BOW IN SOUTHERN AFRICA:

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