About
A guide built the way you actually plan a trip
Most waterfall content online is a ranked list of photographs. None of it tells you that the rafting stops in February, or that the pool you came to swim in is closed half the year.
Book the Falls is an index of the world's great waterfalls organised around one question: what can you actually do there, and when. Every destination page carries the same spine — the activities that genuinely operate, the months that matter, how you get in and what it costs, and where to sleep.
How we decide what goes on a page
An activity is only listed for a destination if it runs at or immediately around the falls. Most waterfalls in this index are hiking and photography, and we say so rather than padding the list. Where an operator has shut down — the Victoria Falls skydiving outfit, for instance — we write that plainly instead of leaving a booking link pointing at nothing.
Depth, and the order we're building in
Every destination here has an essentials guide. Forty-one have the full treatment — Victoria Falls, Iguazú Falls, Angel Falls, Niagara Falls, Kaieteur Falls, Gullfoss, Sutherland Falls, Tugela Falls, Havasu Falls, Ban Gioc-Detian Falls, Tumpak Sewu, Skógafoss, Plitvice Lakes Waterfalls, Yosemite Falls, Huka Falls, La Fortuna Waterfall, Rhine Falls, Dettifoss, Multnomah Falls, Gocta Falls, Kuang Si Falls, Erawan Falls, Ouzoud Falls, Wentworth Falls, Johnston Canyon Falls, Josephine Falls, Svartifoss, Baatara Gorge Waterfall, Kalambo Falls, Vøringsfossen, Trümmelbach Falls, Pagsanjan Falls, Montmorency Falls, Wli Falls, Blue Nile Falls, Epupa Falls, Kravica Falls, Krka Falls, Tavoro Falls, Khone Phapheng Falls and Torc Waterfall: every activity with current operator prices, season-by-season openings and closures, both sides of the border, visas, park fees, where to stay and itineraries, each with its sources listed and a date it was last checked. That template is what the rest of the index is being rebuilt into, marquee destinations first.
How we check facts
Prices, park fees, visa rules and operating seasons come from operators, park authorities and government sources, and every full guide lists them. Where we couldn't confirm something, we say so rather than guess. Entry rules and fees change without much notice, so each guide carries the month it was last checked. Around the guides sit the reference pages — when to go, month by month, waterfalls by country, the types of waterfall and planning, safety and science.
The index pages, and what they are not
Beyond the hand-checked core, the index now covers more than a thousand waterfalls. Those pages are built from open data: location, height, river and protected area come from Wikidata, the summary is adapted from the English Wikipedia article under CC BY-SA 4.0, and the base town is the nearest settlement in OpenStreetMap. Three things on those pages are our estimates and are labelled as such: the best months (from the climate band the fall sits in, not from a visit), the activities (from what the article describes, plus walking and photography as a baseline), and the access rating. Every such page links its sources at the top and says plainly that it is compiled, not checked. When one of them is upgraded to a full guide, that line changes.
Who's behind it
David Bussell · Editor
David Bussell edits Book the Falls. He lives in Wakefield, Quebec, in the Gatineau Hills, and runs Click Shift Marketing, a performance marketing agency. He sets the standard every page is checked against: named sources, prices with a date on them, booking links only where something can actually be booked, and a plain note wherever a fact couldn't be confirmed.
Book the Falls is published by Click Shift Marketing. Every full guide and every essentials page carries the month it was last checked. If you run an operation at one of these falls and something here is wrong or out of date, tell us and we'll fix it: hello@bookthefalls.com.