Bathe in The Best Part of a Waterfall

Bathing at the bottom of a small waterfall is amazing. While standing in the rush of water the grime on your skin is replaced by the falls themselves. Afterwards you feel fresh, clean, and strong. Waterfalls are the first and best shower ever invented.

As cool as that experience can be, bathing at the top of HUGE waterfalls is better.

Usually bathing at the top of a waterfall is a recipe for trouble. It can be hard to resist sliding off the cliff like the water around you. However, some waterfalls aren’t as pushy. They have a small sheltered area, a pool of relative tranquility, that will allow you to safely bathe in water that is about to free fall off a mountain. Just be really sure that such a pool exists before jumping in.

Creative Commons picture by mckaysavage.There is one such pool at the top of one of the biggest waterfalls in the world: Victoria Falls in Zambia/Zimbabwe. Non-suicidal people actually wade into water that is about to fall around 360ft (pictured above). The small safe patch of water at the top of the falls is called the devil’s swimming pool. I’m not sure, but the devil reference could be implying that it is terrifying to bathe inches from the precipice of Victoria Falls.

Bathing at the bottom of waterfalls one can feel the natural excitement and freshness of the water around them. However, when you bathe at the top of waterfalls you can also feel the earth shaking potential.