In Ethiopia they call these falls "Tisissat", which means "water that smokes". The falls drop over a sheer chasm more than 150 feet to the valley below.

The Blue Nile, known as Abay by the Ethiopians, along with the White Nile, feeds the mighty Nile river that flows through Egypt. For the last half of the previous century, the source of the Nile was one of the greatest mysteries European explorers set out to discover. No doubt they came this way.