They had arranged in advance for a private guide and this boat, a barge-like thing with sliding windows and a sliding roof.
We took the public bus to a town about 30 minutes up river where a woman met us, walked us to her restaurant where her husband walked us to his nephew’s boat, who did the trip and then took us to his parents ferryboat to return us back to the original woman’s restaurant. Very all in the family!
We were the only guests on the boat, and travel aboard made us all recall fondly our expectations of The African Queen.