Thursday, August 7, 2014

The Jungel White Water Expadition

The queue and station are themed as the headquarters and boathouse of a River Expedition Company, located in a Brithish Colony of the 1930s. The queuing area is cluttered with appropriate props, such as pinned insects, caged anatroinc birds, vintage photographs, tribal masks and an old radio on top of a bookshelf. Big band music from the 1940s plays overhead, punctuated by jungle-related news bulletins, helping to reinforce the setting and threading together the show scenes and boat.


Once aboard the boats, guests will travel to an up hill ramp. The first rivers simulated are the Irrawaddy and Mekong rivers, representing tropical Southeast Asia. enter the Sacred Indian Elephant Bathing Pool. Here a large herd of Indian elephants frolic and squirt water at the passing vessels.

 The boats sail through a dense rainforest inhabited by large butterflies and a pair of toucans and then glide precariously under the first of a pair of stone arches severely damaged by an earthquake centuries ago. These are part of the ruins of an ancient Cambodian city where just a crumbling temple and shrine to the Hindu  monkey deity Hanuman have managed to avoid tumbling into the river. Here passengers see a Bengal Tiger, king cobras and mugger crocodiles. 
The theme transitions to the rivers of Africa, and riders see a family of baboons, and a base camp that has been overrun by family of curious gorillas.
The boats narrowly avoid the dramatic waterfall, Schweitzer Falls which riders are told is named after Dr. Albert Falls.


 Ominous sounds drums and chanting are heard as the boats come to headhunter country. The vehicles pass a native village before sailing into an ambush by natives wielding spears.
The boat then encounters a pool of crocodiles, who are about to charge the boat.

The baot then enter the Amaon River. Passing a giant python Skeletal animal remains and warning signs featuring pictures of dagger-toothed fish forewarn the next show scene, where the boats encounter a swarm of leaping piranhas . 
They enter an aztec temple which has been destroyed by an earthquake. Inside, a large stone idol deity sits. His eye's start to glown with life as the baot begens to spin around, and then finale into a 50ft drop. Just before returning to the dock.

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