Dank je wel voor dit video. After travelling extensively around three continents in my VW campervan I was approaching Africa to cross the Sahara and travel up the Congo River but unfortunately I had my van stolen in Seville Spain which of course shattered my further dreams. So I watch your video and live the barge life going upriver. I had already gone down the Amazon River and worked in Holland working on the Rhine River for two years so I was really looking forward to doing this trip.
Thank you for posting this, it is insightful. There is not much footage of everyday life in Congo. Westerners who know a thing or 2 about Congo assume it is war-torn like Afghanistan. This video shows how many people live relatively peaceful lives. The river is amazing and powerful.
Sure.....that's not to deny this rich nation is still being sucked dry by its former colonial rulers....who have a policy of divide and rule, rather than have a stable central govornment for the good of the people.....
@@PAULLONDEN The government of Belgium has nothing to do with the poverty that exists in Congo today. If you have a few specific examples of the colonialists who are right now "sucking them dry", please share a few specific, verifiable examples with the specific documentation.
*@Richard Fry* I'll try.......for the moment I could ask the same of you , give documentation how the former colonial rulers these days do all in their powers to put right the mess they left. Belgium is known to have had the worst colonial policies.....Sure ...the people themselves also might be to blame. But history shows that when a new head of state appeared in these nations who wanted to undo colonial policies ,they were assasinated by the c i a . Belgium and the rest of the nato nations being U.S. vasal states. To this day you can Google how west European economic policies give most African nations a lousy deal.
He asked a simple question and you avoided it. I can tell you why Congo is f**ked, their leadership, rampant corruption that nothing gets done, rampant corruption that no taxes are collected, and what little is collected is syphoned away . The government is not accountable anything. Rwanda a country next door seems to be doing okay? Why?
Q: Man, how wide is that river!? A: It increases from a width of more than 3.5 miles (5.5 km) downstream from Isangi (where the Lomami enters the Congo) to a width of 5 to 7 miles (8 to 11 km) and on occasion-for example, at the mouth of the Mongala-to 8 miles (13 km).
"Vibrant"....sure.....you have to be vibrant in a place where nothing is taken for granted.... Bet these people wouldn't mind to be a bit less "vibrant" in exchange for a bit of security ? Captivating inlook into the daily life of the Congolese. A people tormented by colonialism and civil wars , induced by Western arms dealers......
I really liked this video for its total lack of commerciality, or otherwise trying to be clickbait for likes. So interesting to see how they live in the thatched huts along the river, with canoes. Poor, but free of our western materialism and arrogance.
Awesome footage! I've only been to North Africa so far but I'd love to do a similar trip on the Congo river once. All the people you encounter on the river and the locals who dock on with their boats to sell stuff. Seems like one hell of an adventure.
Being hardworking only gives you bad back, being smart gives you better life. An ox is also hardworking but owner is whipping it all the time until death. Btw, Ive failed to see anyone hardworking through entire video - is fishing hard work in Congo now?
Very interesting to see what it is like on the Congo river, i hope they stop damaging and protect the Rainforest they must have some amazing animals there
Roland the environment issue does concern each of us in this planet you did witness the level of deforestation all along the congo river and this is the planet reserve on the hand of ignorant, the forest should be protected for the the best future of this planet
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Did not know that they would float buy East Cleveland
Ik ben opgegroeid in Congo. Van zes weken "oud" tot mijn 17 jaar. eerst in Isiro en nadien in Gemena. Ik kan het hier in België nog steeds niet gewoon worden. Vriendelijke groeten.
My Country Ghana is rich but Congo is the richest. this people are amazing hardworking with marvelous river but with stupid greedy leaders. their boats is not nicer like those in Vietnam, Thailand and Laos, perhaps they can learn from them.
So, Congo is rich because people can build a boat out of wood? Or they can uncontrollably cut down the forest and sell it for a dime? Or to sell cheap any natural resouces they got? If they are so hardwoking, why people dont clean after themselves...there's a dirt and waste everywhere, why dont they rely, protest and change that govt? ...all I see there is completelly unconcern undereducated crowd, polluting and destroying everything. Open your eyes.
Fascinating and captivating ....Thanks for sharing this. One wonders why this river is brown though....might it be the thousands of towns and villages that dump their untreated waste in this mighty river ? And why don't we see any grazing wildlife or hippos , for whom this never ending greenery could be their salad bowl ? We might presume that apart from the few Europeans here with a regular supply of bottled mineral water, the regular population also drinks out of the Congo ? Although the Belgians themselves did too though, but a century ago before the population explosion it might've been still safe to do so.. It's good news bytheway,..that "the bishops are not corrupt"....there once was a time ,that was a whole different story..... Docus like this should be required viewing at schools and for everybody else , so we might take our daily comforts a bit less for granted ?
The Stench of those huts and stinky water...I'm glad U-Tube doesn't have SMELL-A-VISION. Don't see anyone wearing floatation devices of any kind..are those boats have numbers? --What a Shitty Mess of a country's waterfront.
@@windoak don't get me wrong, this is AWESOME. Just a little narration and a few more shots of how the daily life was spent with food, eating and anecdotal additions would have taken it to the next level. But great to watch this experience.
...and then @45:00 a white man came to sell fire water and "medicine" to the natives for a fistfull of diamonds, acting stupid and play an act he played many times before...and, amused, the natives accepted the trade.
guess africa dont belive in birth control lolol shit load of people everywhere but i think they are nice people and have dreams just like everyone other im telling ya if africa would come togather they can rule the world ez
I have watched enough videos about the DRC. Call me racist, but this country needs to be managed by Europeans. There are other countries that can manage on their own, but not Congo. Namibia, Botswana, Rwanda, South Africa, Kenya, Tanzania, and several other African countries can do without the West, but not Congo. But mining interests (cobalt) are too great?
The Congo you are describing is the recent past. Most of the rebels have been pacified as of today. Only M23 remains but is of Rwanda origin and state sponsored. Kenyan businesses are thriving in the Congo. It is indeed the El dorado
@@Heegooat Current news coming out of DRC suggest there is widespread chaos and tribal or warring factions are in violent conflict. I will look again at latest news.
Wow, this is the most comprehensive and informative video about the massive Congo River. Thank you so very much!
Dank je wel voor dit video. After travelling extensively around three continents in my VW campervan I was approaching Africa to cross the Sahara and travel up the Congo River but unfortunately I had my van stolen in Seville Spain which of course shattered my further dreams. So I watch your video and live the barge life going upriver. I had already gone down the Amazon River and worked in Holland working on the Rhine River for two years so I was really looking forward to doing this trip.
Let’s do that trip together, let me know when you’re ready
An amazing adventure. I am glad that I finally had time too watch it.
Thank you for posting this, it is insightful. There is not much footage of everyday life in Congo. Westerners who know a thing or 2 about Congo assume it is war-torn like Afghanistan. This video shows how many people live relatively peaceful lives. The river is amazing and powerful.
Sure.....that's not to deny this rich nation is still being sucked dry by its former colonial rulers....who have a policy of divide and rule, rather than have a stable central govornment for the good of the people.....
@@PAULLONDEN
The government of Belgium has nothing to do with the poverty that exists in Congo today.
If you have a few specific examples of the colonialists who are right now "sucking them dry", please share a few specific, verifiable examples with the specific documentation.
*@Richard Fry* I'll try.......for the moment I could ask the same of you , give documentation how the former colonial rulers these days do all in their powers to put right the mess they left.
Belgium is known to have had the worst colonial policies.....Sure ...the people themselves also might be to blame. But history shows that when a new head of state appeared in these nations who wanted to undo colonial policies ,they were assasinated by the c i a . Belgium and the rest of the nato nations being U.S. vasal states. To this day you can Google how west European economic policies give most African nations a lousy deal.
The usual left / liberal drivel !
Ignore !!
He asked a simple question and you avoided it.
I can tell you why Congo is f**ked, their leadership, rampant corruption that nothing gets done, rampant corruption that no taxes are collected, and what little is collected is syphoned away . The government is not accountable anything.
Rwanda a country next door seems to be doing okay? Why?
Great footage. I was pleasantly surprised to see that I recognised that big silo(?) building in Kinshasa. I loved those big vegetation mats.
Bedankt voor deze video. Zo veel rauwe footage. Hier kan ik nog dagen naar kijken. Ongelooflijk dat zoveel mensen leven op, langst, van de rivier.
Q: Man, how wide is that river!?
A: It increases from a width of more than 3.5 miles (5.5 km) downstream from Isangi (where the Lomami enters the Congo) to a width of 5 to 7 miles (8 to 11 km) and on occasion-for example, at the mouth of the Mongala-to 8 miles (13 km).
Appreciate your posting this epic river journey on the Congo river! - Vibrant people and a stunning nature, wish I could visit!⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
"Vibrant"....sure.....you have to be vibrant in a place where nothing is taken for granted....
Bet these people wouldn't mind to be a bit less "vibrant" in exchange for a bit of security ?
Captivating inlook into the daily life of the Congolese. A people tormented by colonialism and civil wars , induced by Western arms dealers......
@@PAULLONDEN Yep always the white mans fault.
I really liked this video for its total lack of commerciality, or otherwise trying to be clickbait for likes. So interesting to see how they live in the thatched huts along the river, with canoes. Poor, but free of our western materialism and arrogance.
Awesome footage! I've only been to North Africa so far but I'd love to do a similar trip on the Congo river once. All the people you encounter on the river and the locals who dock on with their boats to sell stuff. Seems like one hell of an adventure.
Great video, thanks for sharing. This remind me again when I was young and living in Kwamouth.
Nice video, thanks for explaining things with the subtitles
Thanks for mentioning about the subtitles, I had them turned off (turned them on after reading this)!
Thanks for subtitles ! Great !video !please make some more videos. ✋from Miami, Florida
Bad memories for our Rwandes has lost their lives in that rivers 💔😔😢
Great video, informative, intresting and rare! Thx for sharing!
Hi i am from Bangladesh where are you from
congo-the river with the largest water volume than all other African rivers combined-wonders
Super video congratulations from india
NGL I ENJOY THIS VIDEO THAN THE MAJORITY FILM NOWADAYS
Africans are very hard working. great video to a part of the world we wouldn't have ever seen.
Sure!
Being hardworking only gives you bad back, being smart gives you better life.
An ox is also hardworking but owner is whipping it all the time until death.
Btw, Ive failed to see anyone hardworking through entire video - is fishing hard work in Congo now?
Ron Lum yes they are hardworking making babies , flunking quitting school and killing each other
@@Helloverlord Britain 40 BC = savages, Britain 1700AD =Empire. Africa will have its time!
world class docuodyssy .merci
Very interesting to see what it is like on the Congo river, i hope they stop damaging and protect the Rainforest they must have some amazing animals there
@@johnknowing-zr8de says someone who never steppes foot in congk
It is factual If they continue logging at this rate then there will be no river in two centuries..
Enjoyed this video, although sad to see the Congo being taken over by humans.
Roland the environment issue does concern each of us in this planet you did witness the level of deforestation all along the congo river and this is the planet reserve on the hand of ignorant, the forest should be protected for the the best future of this planet
Did not know that they would float buy East Cleveland
Where are all of the passengers??!
Ik ben opgegroeid in Congo. Van zes weken "oud" tot mijn 17 jaar. eerst in Isiro en nadien in Gemena. Ik kan het hier in België nog steeds niet gewoon worden. Vriendelijke groeten.
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Jeez ! These guys are fit !!
Bana mayi ....bato ba mayi the people you see along this rivered nearly 100milion people in central african's region
Such a long journey ,,, and video. 😀
What a memorable trip!
My Country Ghana is rich but Congo is the richest. this people are amazing hardworking with marvelous river but with stupid greedy leaders. their boats is not nicer like those in Vietnam, Thailand and Laos, perhaps they can learn from them.
So, Congo is rich because people can build a boat out of wood? Or they can uncontrollably cut down the forest and sell it for a dime? Or to sell cheap any natural resouces they got?
If they are so hardwoking, why people dont clean after themselves...there's a dirt and waste everywhere, why dont they rely, protest and change that govt? ...all I see there is completelly unconcern undereducated crowd, polluting and destroying everything.
Open your eyes.
Congo should be dominating olympics in rowing
Life is not easy for everyone !
How many do i have to say the rosary if i was there!
Great video!
Why do they build on water instead of land
they are there just for fishing, they have got firm land villages.
Is these Republic of Congo or RDC- Kinshasa??????
Looks like a very nice Trip i was wandering where this is what part of the Congo river ? B Safe Sir and have a nice Trip !!
Fantastic interesting to watch,,
If only hard works equates riches as most claim!
right. we know that's not true. the hardest working people in the world are the working poor.
I do' t think there is any river in the whole world that is big as Congo river
I bet everyone in congo can swim
Nice condos right on the river
Why only 781 viewers?
You know its gonna be good when it opens with DAG 1
Wakanda foreva !
you needed a drone
Dame what is wrong with sound.....?
great video! how was your experience of the congo? did you get too much grief from officials?
What are “Too eager immigration officials “?
Who is the “we” please
pas de ancien vapeurs. quelle dommage
It's so sad to see how our country is being looted. Statistics the way to go!
I do not think many people are rich
shit load if beer for a little town in the middle if the congo
waters are deep
wow africa is so nice shame if they would all get on the same page they could run the world cuz its so big and all its resouses
Wakanda for eva!
Fascinating and captivating ....Thanks for sharing this.
One wonders why this river is brown though....might it be the thousands of towns and villages that dump their untreated waste in this mighty river ? And why don't we see any grazing wildlife or hippos , for whom this never ending greenery could be their salad bowl ? We might presume that apart from the few Europeans here with a regular supply of bottled mineral water, the regular population also drinks out of the Congo ?
Although the Belgians themselves did too though, but a century ago before the population explosion it might've been still safe to do so..
It's good news bytheway,..that "the bishops are not corrupt"....there once was a time ,that was a whole different story.....
Docus like this should be required viewing at schools and for everybody else , so we might take our daily comforts a bit less for granted ?
I never seen a river that was not brown.
Mud bottom = brown river. Normal.
Fell Asleep after the first 2 min... of this video..... Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
The Stench of those huts and stinky water...I'm glad U-Tube doesn't have SMELL-A-VISION. Don't see anyone wearing floatation devices of any kind..are those boats have numbers? --What a Shitty Mess of a country's waterfront.
Your view, if it had a smell, would Stench the whole world. What an ASSHOLE you truly are!
what a fucking hater u are!
Wakanda
This video had potential.
How? It’s a pretty good video
@@windoak don't get me wrong, this is AWESOME. Just a little narration and a few more shots of how the daily life was spent with food, eating and anecdotal additions would have taken it to the next level. But great to watch this experience.
There is no happy! This world is a miserable place!
Only in your head 😂😂😂😂
Jk
...and then @45:00 a white man came to sell fire water and "medicine" to the natives for a fistfull of diamonds, acting stupid and play an act he played many times before...and, amused, the natives accepted the trade.
Because Africans are brilliant & hard to fool
U
guess africa dont belive in birth control lolol shit load of people everywhere but i think they are nice people and have dreams just like everyone other im telling ya if africa would come togather they can rule the world ez
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I have watched enough videos about the DRC. Call me racist, but this country needs to be managed by Europeans.
There are other countries that can manage on their own, but not Congo. Namibia, Botswana, Rwanda, South Africa, Kenya, Tanzania, and several other African countries can do without the West, but not Congo.
But mining interests (cobalt) are too great?
The Congo you are describing is the recent past. Most of the rebels have been pacified as of today. Only M23 remains but is of Rwanda origin and state sponsored. Kenyan businesses are thriving in the Congo. It is indeed the El dorado
@@Heegooat
Current news coming out of DRC suggest there is widespread chaos and tribal or warring factions are in violent conflict.
I will look again at latest news.
South Africa is not “managing on their own”!! 😂🤣
Nonsense...less commentary less editorializing would have been great.
OMG, at 33:13 is a satellite dish. and another at 34:53