Scenic waterfalls around the world

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Ban Gioc or Detian Falls, Vietnam-China border, 169 miles north of Hanoi. Currently the 4th largest waterfall along a national border is 98 feet tall, 984 feet wide, multi-tiered, scenic karst landscape, important cultural site, tourism spot.



Pics don't do it justice, here's a vid:




Kabut Pelangi Waterfall, East Java, Indonesia




Dudhsagar Falls, India: Goa-Karnataka border, 1,017 feet tall, four-tiered cascade, Dudhsagar, meaning "Sea of Milk" in Konkani. Popular trekking destination, surrounded by lush forests within Bhagwan Mahavir Wildlife Sanctuary.




Rheinfall Falls, Schaffhausen Switzerland: Europe's most powerful waterfall by volume, 490 feet wide, 75 feet tall, near Schaffhausen, boat trips, impressive rock formations.




Gocta Falls (Spanish: Catarata del Gocta) is a tall, moderate to high volume waterfall located in the upper Amazon basin in Peru. The falls drop a total of 2,531 feet in two leaps. The upper tier falls about 700 feet in a purely vertical fall, the lower drops about 1770 feet in a nearly vertical drop into a huge amphitheater, with the remainder of the height made up between the two steps. Though the volume of the unnamed river the falls occur along can fluctuate greatly with the seasons, the falls can be considered one of the major waterfalls of South America and measure up as one of the best falls on the planet.


Gocta Falls was not widely known prior to 2002 when a German Engineer by the name of Stefan Ziemendorff urged the Peruvian Government to survey the falls after his visit led to suspicions that it would be among the great falls of the world. The documentation and resulting press influenced the development of the falls as a tourist attraction. The name of the falls stems from that of a nearby village.




Sutherland Falls at 1,904 feet is the tallest in New Zealand. A high volume waterfall of three steps in very quick succession along the Arthur River, which spills from a pair of sizable lakes carved into glacial basins high on a mountainside in Fiordland National Park. The three drops of the falls stand 751 feet, 815 feet, and 338 feet tall respectively, occur in such quick succession that when viewed from the air the falls appear to be one long drop.


Named for Donald Sutherland (not that one), who was a prospector that discovered the falls in 1880.


Virginia Falls, Northwest Territories, Canada is a massive waterfall that slides down a long stretch of mighty rapids and short drops then splits around a massive 400 foot tall spire of lime stone known as Mason's Rock. The south segment of the falls drops 294 feet to the river below, while the north segment slides steeply down to a bend, then falls about 170 feet to rejoin the south segment in the river below.


The name Virginia Falls is derived from Virginia Hunter, daughter of Fenley Hunter, an American adventurer and businessman from Long Island, New York who explored the region in 1928 for the Geological Survey of Canada. designated World Heritage Sites by UNESCO in the late 1970s.


Cascada de Ventisquero Colgante, also known as Hanging Glacier Falls, is a veiling plunge waterfall in Queulat National Park, in Chile. The height is conservatively estimated to be 1,800 feet and possibly up to 2,000 ft.


In 1766, the Jesuit Father José García Alsue explored the area searching for the City of the Caesars... also variously known as City of Patagonia, the Wandering City, Trapalanda or Trapananda, Lin Lin or Elelín, is a mythical city of South America. Despite being searched for during the colonization of South America, no evidence proves that it ever existed, although reports of it circulated for two hundred years. Charles Sheffield's science fiction story "Trapalanda" (in Asimov's Science Fiction, June 1987) is built around a quest to find Trapalanda. Sheffield was a British theoretical physicist & Chief Scientist of Earth Satellite Corporation.

Exploring the City of Caesars: Patagonia's Legendary Lost City


Cerberus Falls aka Icefall Brook Falls, British Columbia, Canada is an absolute colossus of a waterfall situated at the head of spectacular Icefall Canyon, deep in the Canadian Rocky Mountains.


Cerberus Falls is a segmented horsetail waterfall located at the head of Icefall Canyon in the Continental Ranges of British Columbia, Canada. With a total height of 1,558 ft, the falls are tied with Kiwi Falls on Vancouver Island as the 8th tallest confirmed waterfall in Canada. It is also the tallest waterfall in Canada by tallest single drop and the 26th tallest waterfall in the world by tallest single drop. The Southwest Lyell Glacier covers and area of about 8 square miles, nearly all of which drains into Icefall Brook.


Helmcken Falls, British Columbia is the centerpiece to Wells Gray Provincial Park, one of the most powerful waterfalls on earth and one of BC’s prime tourist draws. The Murtle River, which just a few kilometers upstream, drops over 300 foot wide Dawson Falls, narrows to about 75 feet wide and surges over the lip of Helmcken Canyon, hurtling 462 feet into one of the largest river-sculpted amphitheaters in North America. The bowl behind the falls recedes over 150 feet into the cliff and stretches over 500 feet wide. Pictures really do not do this waterfall justice, as there is no way to convey the true power and volume of water spilling off the cliff.


Helmcken Falls is the fourth highest waterfall in Canada, measured by total straight drop without a break. Discovered by a Canadian Government land surveyor by the name of Robert Lee in July of 1913. He proposed the falls and river be named after the then Premiere of British Columbia, Sir Richard McBride. McBride was flattered but refused the honor, instead suggesting it be named for Dr. John Sebastian Helmcken who was active in the early governance of Vancouver Island and British Columbia.