Mosi-oa-Tunya National Park Mosi-oa-Tunya National Park Mosi-oa-Tunya National Park (Sotho: "Musi oa Thunya" [Mosi wa Tunya] ""The Smoke Which Thunders""), is an UNESCO World Heritage site that is home to one half of the Mosi-oa-Tunya "— 'The Smoke Which Thunders' —" known worldwide as Victoria Falls on the Zambezi River. The river forms the border between Zambia and Zimbabwe, so the falls are shared by the two countries, and the park is 'twin' to the Victoria Falls National Park on the Zimbabwean side. ‘Mosi-oa-Tunya’ comes from the Kololo or Lozi language and the name is now used throughout Zambia, and in parts of
Big Tree at Victoria Falls (including a group of four) in the City Parks Department in Mutare. Big Tree at Victoria Falls The Big Tree - is a large baobab of the species "Adansonia digitata" in Zimbabwe, close to the Victoria Falls. It has sometimes been called Livingstone's tree erroneously. Unusually for a baobab it has both an impressive girth and is very tall. It measures 22.40 metres in girth (2004) and is 24 metres tall (1985). The explorer and missionary David Livingstone who discovered the Victoria Falls for the British Empire (naming the Falls for his queen) carved his name in 1855 into a