Rhine Falls

At the border with Germany tourists have the chance to see an amazing show of the nature created by the Rhine River. The river forms here a gorgeous waterfall, one of the largest in Europe. A large volume of water drips down the waterfall forming an impressive visual and auditory picture for any tourist. Boat trips are available up to the rock in the middle of the river, which can also be escalated by those who want.
By figures, the Rhine Falls are the first in Europe: the 150 m width, the 23 m height and the 13 m depth of the basin, with an average summer flow of 600,000 litters / second. So it is the widest waterfall (made up of several successive falls which led to the use of the plural in its name) on the old continent, but not the strongest - this one The Rhine Falls area is a large park with delightful panoramas and a sound background of water tumble. Two old castles, stunning cliffs, a railway bridge, steep steps down the waterfalls and long alleys offer you a day full of Swiss charm, sprinkled in abundance with the wild waters when the boat ventures at the base of the Rhine fall. No matter where you enter the waterfalls, the roads go into wide parking lots and from here to one of the two castles on the shore: Laufen in the south and Wörth in the north.ifoss (Iceland) and it has 100 m wide, with a 45 m drop of water. Before fully entering Germany, the river from the Swiss Alps, passing through Lake Constance and over the cliffs of Schaffhausen, where the waterfalls are formed, extends westward as a natural boundary between the two countries, up to Basel, where it turns north.
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