Most Amazing Waterfalls

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Waterfalls are a gift of God to earth, making the land spectacular and enchantingly beautiful. They create a divine, miraculous and heaven-sent vision. It’s thick foamy water splashing down the cliffs partitions the land and the water fumes and droplets spread in air while producing amazing sounds. This list takes the readers on a tour to breathtakingly beautiful waterfalls around the globe.

Seljalandsfoss, Iceland

When you visit Seljalandsfoss near Iceland's southern coast, it's not hard to figure out why it's one of the country's most popular. A walking path lets you go behind the roughly 200-ft.-high falls, which pour onto rocks below. (loic80l/flickr.com)

Detian Waterfall, Vietnam/China

One of the world's biggest transnational waterfalls, the Detain falls are located along the China-Vietnam border – on the Chinese side near Shuolong Town in China's Guangxi region and within the Trung Khanh district on the Vietnamese side, nearly 170 miles north of Hanoi. (ThinkStock)

Gocta Cataracts, Peru

Known to nearby villagers for centuries, the existence of the Catarata del Gocta (the name of the falls in Spanish) wasn’t made known to the world until a team of German and Peruvian explorers discovered them in the upper Amazon River basin of northern Peru in the early 2000s. (Elemaki/Wikimedia Commons)

Sutherland Falls, New Zealand

Originating high up in the mountains that overlook Milford Sound on New Zealand's South Island, the 1,904-ft.-high Sutherland Falls lie within Fiordland National Park and are accessible only by a hiking trail known as the Milford Track. (chiropractical/flickr.com)

Ventisquero Colgante Falls, Chile

Estimated at between 1,800 and 2,000 feet high, Chile's Ventisquero Colgante Falls get their name from the glacier that hangs over the top of a cliff here in the mountains of Queulat National Park. Meltwater from the glacier plunges into a rainforest below. (cavertingo/flickr.com)

Murchison Falls, Uganda

Also known as Kabarega Falls, the 141-ft.-high Murchison Falls lie within the national park that shares their name near Uganda's western border with Congo, where the falls force their way through a gap between rocks on the Nile River that's just over 20 feet wide. (beccacantpark/flickr.com)

Virginia Falls, Canada

Located on a more than 800-ft.-wide stretch of rapids on the South Nahanni River in Canada's Nahanni National Park Reserve, Virginia Falls are named for Virginia Hunter, whose father Fenley Hunter explored the region for the Geological Survey of Canada in 1928. (Wikimedia Commons)

Gullfoss, Iceland

One of this small island nation's most popular tourist attractions, Gullfoss – its name means Golden Falls in English – lies on the Hvítá River in southwest Iceland, where it plunges into a canyon in two stages and appears to vanish into the earth as one is walking toward the falls. (Alessandro Casagrande/flickr.com)

Plitvice Lakes National Park, Croatia

More than a million tourists every year flock to eastern Croatia to see the Eden-like lakes and waterfalls of Plitvice Lakes National Park, which spans more than 180 square miles near this small southern European country's border with Bosnia and Herzegovina. (Sitomon/flickr.com)

Pir Ghaib Waterfall, Pakistan

Pir Ghaib Waterfalls are waterfalls in situated in the Bolan Valley, 70 km from Quetta, in Balochistan, Pakistan. There are cascade waterfalls and two separate waterfalls flow into a larger clear and blue pool of cool water. The waterfall is known to be flowing where the surrounding is barren.