Paris: Looks like a switch, accelerate the slippage to the Seine River, spreading the goose and pushing the scream from the passengers.
But when Splash subsides, the bus floats calmly along the river.
Welcome to one of the newest tourist attractions of the French capital: an amphibious bus that drives along the city streets, and then repents directly to the river’s pleasure boat.
“It’s very different from the usual,” said Giulia Gallo, a 12-year-old girl from Italy on the bus this week.
“But it’s very good.” The amphibious tour bus which is commonly known as duck has been used for years for ferry tourists around other cities in the world.
They are often modified from Assault Earthure Sea crafts.
Some have become headlines with sinking, or shooting.
But the version used in Paris is a new destination-made design that was built mostly in France, and, according to the operator, this is the first Amphibious vehicle to get a license to bring tourists on the road and Paris waterways.
The tour has been run since this summer by a company called “Canards de Paris”, France for Duck Paris.
At sightseeing this week, the vehicle in conventional bus mode carries passengers to pass the scene including the Arc de Triomphe and the Eiffel Tower.
Then, the bus switches to the boat mode, involves the propeller on the back to float along the Seine River.
The live vest is suspended from the ceiling, and anchor is stored in a box on the side of the bus.
Marcel Penult, a 8-year-old child from the nearby edge of Paris on the bus with his mother, said it was “very different from another boat, and another bus.
This is a mixture of both.”