Ubundu

Ubundu, formerly known as Ponthierville or Ponthierstad, is a town located in the Tshopo Province of the Democratic Republic of the Congo and is the administrative center of the territory of the same name. It is on the Lualaba River, or Upper Congo, just above the Boyoma Falls. The river is not navigable from here downstream to Kisangani, so a portage railway was built to link Ubundu to Kisangani. Upstream from Ubundu the river is navigable as far as Kasongo.

Ubundu
Commune
Ubundu is a port on the Congo River, about a 100 km up a muddy road from Kisangani.
Ubundu
Coordinates: 0.358813°S 25.433221°E / -0.358813; 25.433221
Country	DR Congo
Province	Tshopo
Territory	Ubundu
Time zone	UTC+2 (CAT)
Climate	Tropical raninforest (Af)
National language	Swahili

In 1951, Katharine Hepburn, Humphrey Bogart and the crew of the film The African Queen arrived in Ubundu by train for filming in the jungle. In those days, the town was described as a "pretty colonial outpost".[1]

The area saw some of the worst fighting during the Second Congo War. Around 2003, the town had no electricity, and very few facilities, and was considered a very dangerous place.[2]