1,312 Feet wide in flood, the Blue Nile plunges 148 feet down a sheer chasm to throw up a continuous mist that drenches the countryside up to more than half a mile away. In turn, this gentle deluge produces rainbows that shimmer across the gorge under the changing arc of the sun - and a perennial rainforest.

The pillar of cloud in the sky above, seen from afar, explains the local name for the falls - water that smokes, Tissisat.