Jungle River Cruise

Jungle River Cruise
Park	Hong Kong Disneyland
Land	Adventureland
Type	Jungle boat ride
Opening date	September 12, 2005

Jungle River Cruise is Hong Kong Disneyland's version of the Jungle Cruise. It is part of Adventureland's, Rivers of Adventure.

History

Backstory

The, "Jungle River Cruise" is a tourism service managed by the Jungle Navigation Company. The boathouse for this version of the attraction is seemingly set in the Congo basin of Africa.

Summary

Notable differences from Jungle Cruise

• In the queue, a British voice greets guests while providing them with instructions for boarding and their tour. Guests can also select their language for the tour.
• The boathouse is seemingly set within the Congo.
• The first feature passed by on the cruise is Tarzan's Treehouse.
• During the camp raid scene, the song Trashin' the Camp from Tarzan (1999) plays.
• While passing through headhunter territory, the headhunters use blow-darts to shoot at the boats.
• The attraction has a unique climax featuring a water god and fire god.
• Rather than having any variant of Trader Sam's outpost, at the end of the attraction is a lone baby Indian elephant. This is the only incarnation of the Jungle Cruise (including the 2021 film) to not feature any variation of Trader Sam and their outpost.

Boats

• Amazon Annie
• Congo Queen
  • Wheelchair accessible.
• Ganges Gal
  • Wheelchair accessible.
• Irrawaddy Irma
• Lijiang Lady
• Mekong Maiden
• Nile Nellie
• Yangzi Ying Ying
• Zambezi Zelda

Overlays

Jungle River Cruise: Curse of the Emerald Trinity

This was a horror oriented overlay of the attraction. Guests go in the jungle while it is inhabited by the criminal Prof. Garrett Reed in his mission to steal the enchanted Emerald Trinity from the local, "Voodoo tribe". The boats pass by Reed as he is killed by the cursed jewels only for their skipper to reveal that they stole one, leading to them racing to get out of the jungle alive.

Jungle River Cruise: Pirate Takeover!

This was a Pirates of the Caribbean themed overlay done for the, "Pirate Takeover" event. It was set in the midst of a pirate takeover of Adventureland where pirate paraphernalia is strewn about the Jungle Cruise leading up to an encounter with a live-performed pirate attacking the boat with a cannon.

Trivia

• The Umbala are portrayed as using blowguns. In real-life, blowguns are not known to be traditionally used by any Indigenous Africana tribe but are more likely taken from Jivaroan cultures.

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