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Sawubona
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Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2006 2:34 am |
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Find your way to the "Old Hotel" in the Royal Natal National Park. Don't be put off by the roads in, especially if you take the one through the village that's the "scenic route". If he's there, ask the grizzled Zulu ranger at the front desk of the main reception building how to get to the hotel. If he isn't, continue up the road to the fork where the women sell baskets. After you stop and buy some 'cause they've got nice stuff for cheap and they work real hard making them , continue on the right fork until you hit the end of the line. Park there, admire the baboons to the right and then saunter through the abandonded hotel and down towards the left-hand side. Along about that point, things should begin to look familiar, kind of like you've seen it all before! Seriously, take along some captured stills from the movie and you'll have no problem finding just where you need to stand to be in it. And if you get mixed up and lost, just ask anyone-- Greet them in Zulu and ask in English-- "Sawabona! Ujani? Where am I?" They all know that much Anglo-Saxon, so we all ought to know that much Zulu!
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Sheldon Hall
Joined: 01 Sep 2005 |
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Posted: Fri Feb 10, 2006 6:19 pm |
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The 'Old Hotel' is, I take it, the Royal NNP Hotel, closed a few years ago and used by some of the ZULU crew during shooting (it was adjacent to the set). If you want to make the trip complete you could stay at the Other Hotel, i.e. the Mont-Aux-Sources, where the rest of the cast and crew stayed, inc. Stanley Baker (rooms 24, 25 and 26), Cy Endfield (rooms 33 and 34)and Michael Caine (sharing room 37 with Ivor Emmanuel). The current owner-manager, Marius Markgraaf, also managed the hotel when the film was made, so you can sit up all night chatting to him about it...
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