I had heard about a documentary fillum called Mystery of the Nile that was showing at the San Jose IMAX theater. It's about the first ever 'running' of the entire length of the Nile from Ethiopia to the Meditterannean that was performed by a group in rubber rafts. This was made only a year or two ago. So I headed into San Jose Saturday morning to see it.
The IMAX theatre was inside the SJ Tech Museum but while the museum looked sorta good I really wasn't in the mood. I expected the IMAX to just be a friggin large screen but it was heaps better, it was an entire HEMISPHERE, about 80 m across, tilted slightly so that the centre was more in front of you than over your head. The fantastic effect of this was that when you looked at the curved image you lost all depth perception of the screen surface and it felt like you were really there.
Anyway the doco was awesome. One of the best things I have ever seen. Awesome scenes of them throwing rubber rafts over huge waterfalls and then abseileing down the cliff next to it. One guy abseiled down in his kyak straight into the water.
Outside in the park they were having some kind of community festival. More in the pics...
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