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The Northern Lights are one of the most famous seven natural wonders of the world. The northern lights are breathtaking dancing lights that naturally appear in the skies of northern and southern atmosphere. The lights are called 'Aurora Borealis' in the northern atmosphere meaning “dawn of the north” and 'Aurora Australis' in the southern atmosphere meaning “dawn of the south”. The northern lights and the southern lights occur at the same time which makes them almost mirror like images of one another. The lights can be seen in different colours such as red, yellow, blue, green and violet; however light green and pink are the most common ones. The appearance of the lights varies from bands, curtains, rolling smokes to clouds, patches, rays and arcs.

Although the lights displays in both northern and southern atmosphere, they are more visible in the north than the south because the lights in the southern parts are concentrated in a ring around the Antarctica and the southern Indian Ocean. The best place to view the northern lights is in the northwestern parts of Canada, Sweden and Finland, northern coast of Norway and the northern coast Serbia. The lights are from 80 km to 640 km above the earth’s surface.

The Auroras are actually the energy released when the electrically charged particles released from the sun collide with the gaseous particles in the atmosphere. The sun’s atmosphere throws free electrons and protons towards the earth through the magnetic field by the solar wind. When some particles escaped from the weaker poles of the magnetic field, collisions between the charged particles and gas particles occur, resulting the dancing lights in the sky.

The differentiation of the colours is due to the gas particles they ...

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...s $20 USD in Zimbabawe and $10 USD in Zambia. The best time to visit the Victoria Falls for the visitors who want to swim in the Devil’s Pool is during October-December when the fall is in its lowest flow. The highes t water level of falls is from March to May and the vistitors can experience the intense sprays, smokes and the thuderous sounds of the falls.

One of the most important thing the visitors need to bring tents, bed nets, insecticide sprays, mosquito repelling lotion and long sleeve clothes to protect contact with mosquitoes as there is a threat of malaria in the area.

There are many activities for the visitors at the Victoria Falls such as Viewing the Waterfalls and the Wildlife, Bungee Jumping which is the Victoria Falls Birdge Jumping, Jet Boating, White water Rafting, Sundowner Cruise Riding, Bridge Tour and finally, even swimming in the Devil’s Pool!