Although described as a tourist attraction there are no trappings of tourism life gift shops or street vendors. Just two signs of western influence - an abseil rope and a zip wire. The waterfall is impressive - 106m wide dropping into a 240m gorge.
On the crest of the waterfall local women are doing their washing.
Luckily not many blankets are being washed away over the top of the waterfall today.
We did a 10k hike which does not sound a lot in the searing heat it was draining to say the least. We walked along the top of the gorge and then decended steeply to a village at the bottom of the gorge where we had a traditional lunch of pap and cabbage. Then it was the long hike up the side of the gorge back to the pick up. Along the way we have to ford a couple of fast flowing rivers We are told that the local children do this hike everyday to their school ay the top of the gorge. The school being so remote that they have difficulty in recruiting teachers as they would have to live in the community.
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