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Howick
Falls, approximately 100 metres of spectacular display almost in the centre of
the picturesque town itself.
Known to the Zulu people as KwaNogqaza -
Place of the Tall One - the falls were first seen by European adventurers in the
early 19th Century, as transport riders and wagon trains pioneered routes inland
from the coast.
English missionary James Archbell was granted a farm here,
but the rapid increase in horse-drawn traffic soon compelled the government of
the day to expropriate a portion for the establishment of a village.
This
settlement was duly named Howick, in tribute to the Northumberland home of then
British Colonial Secretary, Earl Grey.