With a name derived from the American Indian word Onguiaahara, meaning "thundering water," Niagara attracts 12 million to 14 million visitors a year.
A hare rested by the track, confident in its camouflage, and fallow deer flitted through the pines, before thundering water announced the climax of the walk, the picturesque waterfall, el Chorro de Poveda.
It stood for what once was: a sour reminder of the thundering water, unimaginable wreckage and exponential wounds.
We caught trout near a waterfall and slept wonderfully aided by a little booze and the thundering water.
As a child, the absentminded Chandler wanders off from the school and is sometimes found on the paths of the Niagara Gorge, gazing into the thundering water.
If this sounds fanciful, go inside, listen to the thundering water, where two divers drowned in 1971 and several speleologist teams attempted to explore and gave up, and it won't.
Warned by a sign announcing that a man recently fell from the bridge and was lost in the falls, I looked gingerly down at sharply layered bedrock, bronze-colored pillows of moss and thundering water.
In the lush, humid rain forest overlooking Victoria Falls — created by the constant mist sent up by the thundering water — there are numerous viewpoints from which to take in the stunning panorama, often accompanied by a rainbow or two: an immense sheet of water broken up into a series of smaller cascades by islands right at the lip of the Zambezi River.
Before work on the dam began two years ago, Jinja was known primarily for the nearby Bujagali Falls, a series of thundering white-water rapids that attracts rafters from around the world.
As the two-kilometre wide Zambezi River tumbles down a series of gorges, thundering into the waters below, the spectacular falls send up spray and mist that can be seen from as far as 30 kilometres away.
