Riding of the Queen of Africa
The African Queen, the truth, never sailed these waters. He did in Eastern Africa. That was his role skippered by Charlie Allnut to supply the villages of East Africa at the beginning of the First World War. Sailed calm waters, placid streams and fast frantic. To be precipitated by different cascades and waterfalls. Board himself and his passenger Charlie Rose, living a thousand and one adventures in the heart of the black continent. As I guess you have already guessed Charlie and Rose are none other than Humphrey Bogart and Katharine Hepburn, and the Queen of Africa is not, neither more nor less, the rickety steamer that gives name to the famous film by John Huston. The film is probably one of the best marketing campaigns for the continent. One of many films that opened his eyes to a virgin continent where nature has been the mistress of all. It was at that time and somehow it still. These actors did not come to shoot in Africa but unknowingly contributed to tourism in these lands.
The lives of these characters is not linked to nature for scientific, but if they have contributed, your way, that Africa was a little closer and we were more familiar.
To go to show the world the African wildlife through scenes like Humphrey Bogart playing to imitate different animals you are going to exist in the river: Hippos, monkeys, etc.. The lives of these characters is not linked to nature for scientific or naturalistic obviously, but if they have contributed, your way, that Africa was a little closer and we were more familiar.
The natural landscape
In the famous film little remains on the ground unless their natural settings, as the Murchison Falls in Uganda, visit in any Ugandan safari land. Access is no problem in one of the most evocative boat safaris on how many are made. There are three reasons why it deserves to be ever a safari in Murchison National Park (Kaberaga) If. The area around the falls, near Lake Albert, watered by the Nile monumental, within the largest national park in the African country; cataracts themselves, that 43 meters and a prodigious flow are the greatest of legendary wealth who dies in the Mediterranean and, last, the abundant wildlife that lives in the park. Do not miss the Big Five (elephant, buffalo, leopard, lion and rhino), but Perhaps most remarkable is the extraordinary density of hippos and crocodiles, one of the largest populations across the continent. It is also famous national park by the Rothschild giraffe, very low.
The Queen of Africa and the Zambezi
Perhaps the only icon that is in relation to the film is the boat "The African Queen". But as I said at the beginning, the current browsing not the same place as did the original. Nor is it the same boat. The ship is now ready for tourism, for photo safaris by Mosi oa Tunya National Park (Zambia), one of the smallest national parks but the most visited Zambia. Why? It houses nothing more nor less than the Victoria Falls, of which I told you some things in the last post. This nature reserve contains an area stretching from the falls to 12 miles up the Zambezi River. That's where comes in. "The African Queen" by providing an opportunity for a safari browsing this legendary African river. From the deck, did almost as Bogart himself, We can see those hippos, crocodiles, monkeys, Elephants, giraffes and a long list of spices to imitating.
And while we're here how to resist to take a safari on elephant back? As one of the best places to experience it is nearby downtown recovery, creation and study of African elephants (Zambezi Elephant Trails). For a little over 150 dollars you can take a ride uploaded to one of the pachyderms to discover the nature of the environment in the company of the true king of the jungle. For 60 dollars are given the opportunity of interfacing with them in what will undoubtedly be an unforgettable day.
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Anonymous
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Know what they did with the original ship?
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Samuel G. Andrade
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No hay un lago o gran rio africano que se precie donde no navegue una barcaza bautizada como «The African Queen». Huston's film remains, more than half a century later, one of the best ambassadors of the continent. Congratulations on the article
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Alfonso Polvorinos
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Hi Anonymous, the truth is that as far as I, not been tracked. I guess its characteristics and status, should not last much longer after shooting…
regards
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Alfonso Polvorinos
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Thank you very much Samuel, regards
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