The Lion King Show at Disneyland - Hong Kong

The show is featured in the "Theater in the Wild" in Adventureland. Similar to the theater setting in Disney's Animal Kingdom, The show in Hong Kong has been arranged to a simplified version of the story of The Lion King along with the songs in the movie. 

The performance is mainly in English, but two actors dressed as monkeys summarize and translate Rafiki's lines into Cantonese in order to accommodate guests who do not speak English. Simplified Chinese subtitles, for Mainland Chinese visitors, are also projected onto the screens above each seating section. The show is presented to Simba by Rafiki (portrayed by a female actress, as in the Broadway musical) as a re-telling of Simba's life. Simba is represented by a large, elaborate puppet on a parade-style float decorated as a tribal-styled Pride Rock.

In contrast to the Simba of the Animal Kingdom production the puppet in this production wears red and black tribal bracelets and has braids in his mane.

simba friend

Narrative
Unlike the Festival of the Lion King in Orlando, which merely uses songs and imagery from the film, the Hong Kong version of the show contains a coherent narrative. It acts as a truncated version of Disney's movie "The Lion King," in which Simba the lion reclaims leadership of his pride after his uncle Scar usurps it. An actress dressed as Rafiki the baboon hosts the proceedings, revealing highlights of Simba's life and recounting specifics to the audience.

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The thrill of Jungle River Cruising at Disneyland Hong Kong

The Jungle River Cruise is an attraction located in Adventureland at Hong Kong Disneyland. The attraction simulates a riverboat cruise down several major rivers of Asia, Africa and South America. Park guests board replica tramp steamers and are taken on a voyage past many different Audio-Animatron Ric jungle animals. The tour is led by a live Disney cast member delivering a humorous scripted narration. 

The Jungle River Cruise

Guests board on the boat and meet the skipper. The boat then depart and head down the river, past Tarzan's Tree-house where the skipper tells us to wave goodbye to the guests traversing the tree-house  for they will never see them again.

ready to cruise

The boats then drift past a mother Indian elephant and her calf playing in the water, followed by another elephant showering in a waterfall. A large bull Indian elephant emerges from the water squirting a plume of water at the boats.

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Budget Hotel at Sostrowijayan Street - Jogjakarta, Indonesia

Sosrowijayan is the name of the street near the Malioboro street, this street famous for its specialty with limited buget hotel, homestay and inn, same as the Poppies Lane in Kuta, Bali, this area is frequented visited by both local and foreign backpackers.

surrounding sostrowijayan area

Sosrowijayan street is a very strategic, which is located just less than 1 mile from Train Station "Tugu", so get off the train, walk a minute, then arriving at the inn. Beside that, the place behind the crowded center of Yogyakarta, Malioboro, making Sosrowijayan more interesting place to stay.

gang sostrowijayan 

Tourist services are also easily found in Sosrowijayan. On the roadside there are many money changer, internet and telecommunication, motorbike and car rental, travel agents, and so on. When you are hungry, you can go to resto, which opened by this villagers. which serve dishes such as rice, fried noodles, fried fish, fried chicken. There are also restaurants that offer western cuisine at affordable prices.

mounth Merapi from sostrowijayan view

There are bookshops that provide used English novels and local novels. You can choose books freely while viewing contents at a glance because no plastic sealed. Although used books, the physical quality of the book is still good, so the book is still worth to be collected. The price varies, but certainly cheaper than at the bookstore.

rickshaw pullers

Please be careful of rickshaw pullers offer to drive you traveled around the city for a fee of Rp. 5000 (even less than that). Many incidents where tourists are taken around and "forced" to buy souvenirs in the shops were visited by unscrupulous rickshaw puller will get 50% commission from the transaction. Another incident was unilaterally raised rates on the move. If you experience the above incident, please ask for help on Tourism Police.



reference: http://www.yogyes.com/id/yogyakarta-tourism-object/neighborhood/sosrowijayan/ 

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