25 waterfalls worldwide
Boat cruises at waterfalls
The classic approach: come at the falls from the water, usually at sunset, usually with a drink.
Where it runs
Waterfalls with boat cruises
Every destination in our index where boat cruises genuinely operates at or immediately around the falls. If an operator has closed, we take the entry down rather than leave a dead booking link.
Angel Falls
Water leaves the flat top of Auyán-tepui and falls so far that much of it atomizes into mist before ever reaching the pool below, a…
Seven Sisters Waterfall
Seven parallel streams cascade down the same cliff face directly into Geirangerfjord, facing a single opposing waterfall nicknamed …
Bowen Falls
Named for the wife of an early New Zealand governor, this permanent falls plunges directly into Milford Sound beside the small sett…
Stirling Falls
Tour boats on Milford Sound cruise close enough to this permanent falls that passengers standing on deck get soaked by the spray, o…
Twin Falls
Two streams split around a central sandstone pillar and fall together into a sandy-beached gorge, reached via a 4WD track, a creek …
Victoria Falls
The Zambezi drops as a single curtain into a narrow slot chasm cut into basalt, throwing spray visible for 20 km that locals call '…
Iguazu Falls
Nearly 275 individual cascades stretch across almost three kilometres where the Iguazu River meets a basalt escarpment, with catwal…
Devil's Throat
A U-shaped chasm swallows roughly half of the entire river's flow at once, and a 1,100-metre catwalk on the Argentine side walks yo…
Plitvice Lakes Waterfalls
Sixteen terraced turquoise lakes cascade into one another over travertine barriers built continuously by mineral deposits and moss,…
Seerenbach Falls
One of the highest waterfalls in Europe drops in seven stages down a cliff on the southern shore of Lake Walen, visible from the wa…
Ouzoud Falls
The El-Abid River tumbles over red ochre cliffs in a series of steps into the Atlas foothills, framed by hundreds of resident Barba…
Tamul Falls
Two rivers, one running clear turquoise and one silt-laden, merge just above the lip and plunge together over a broad limestone cli…
Shoshone Falls
Taller than Niagara and once nicknamed the 'Niagara of the West,' this Snake River curtain is at its thunderous best only in spring…
Horseshoe Falls
The larger and more powerful of Niagara's two main falls curves in a broad crescent on the Canadian side, carrying nearly nine-tent…
Niagara Falls
Three falls in one — Horseshoe, American, and Bridal Veil — move more water per second than almost any other falls on Earth, funnel…
Skradinski Buk
Seventeen travertine steps drop the Krka River into a wide, warm pool that was, until recently, one of the few named waterfalls in …
Blue Nile Falls
Known locally as 'smoking water,' the Blue Nile plunges over a horseshoe of basalt cliffs a short walk from Lake Tana's outlet. A s…
Murchison Falls
The entire Victoria Nile is squeezed through a gap in the rock barely 7 metres wide before exploding into the pool below, generatin…
Duden Waterfalls
Two separate waterfalls share the name — an Upper falls where the Duden River drops through a travertine cave inside a city park, a…
Ban Gioc-Detian Falls
The largest waterfall straddling an international border in Asia is known by two names on two sides of a single river, with bamboo …
Pagsanjan Falls
Reached only by dugout canoe paddled upstream against the current by two boatmen through a series of rapids, the falls themselves a…
Chitrakoot Falls
Often nicknamed the Niagara of India, this broad horseshoe curtain on the Indravati River sits in one of the country remoter tribal…
Rhine Falls
Europe's largest waterfall by volume formed roughly 15,000 years ago when the Rhine found a new course after the last ice age retre…
Krka Falls
A chain of travertine cascades along the Krka River culminates at Roški Slap's braided, fan-shaped drop, upstream from the park's m…
Salto do Yucumã
Rather than falling across the river, the water here plunges lengthwise along a geological fault line running parallel to the Urugu…