Yosemite National Park,United States
The Horsetail Falls may seem like a lava eruption, but it is simply a waterfall. It is an extraordinarily natural phenomenon visible for ten minutes a day in the last two weeks of February, when the sun and the ground are at a precise distance and the sun’s rays illuminate the cascade from a particular trajectory.
This splendid optical illusion created by the sun during sunset is capable of transforming the Horsetail Falls’ water into a glowing lava jet, an incredible flaming tongue that runs for 480 meters along one of the rocky walls Of El Captain. It is a flamboyant waterfall for two weeks a year which gives one of the most fascinating sceneries in Yosemite National Park, California.
This phenomenon is known as "firefall" and occurs only in the perfect climatic conditions and it is not possible to admire it every year. It should not be too cold, to allow the snow to melt and feed the waterfall, the sky must be clear with no mist, rain or clouds.
The valley was discovered by the colonizers in 1851 and the first picture of the "waterfall" was taken in 1973 by photographer Galen Rowell, but it is almost certain that the Indians Awahneechee, natives of Yosemite Valley, already knew the existence of this waterfall hundreds of years before.
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