The bus then took us to a river, where we boarded a nice-sized river boat with a large enclosed cabin for passengers. The vessel took us on a comfortable and interesting voyage down a 70 kilometer long tropical river to the resort.
At the beginning of our voyage we had passed through recently cleared pastures with the odd dead naked tree, remnants of the jungle that had once occupied that space, but once the boat got to Tortuguero Park, the scenery we were passing through became even more jungle-like, with the thick growth of plants and trees forming a thick wall of green that came straight up from the river. We could not see any river “bank”, just a solid solid wall of tropical foliage.
The boat traveled slowly along the river which snaked its way through the visually exciting jungle. A lot of exotic birds flew from their perches on the tall trees that lined the river as our boat approached, and monkeys gave us the eye as we passed by. A girl on the trip who had lived in Brazil told us the scenery we were passing through looked just like an Amazon River trip she had gone on. Floating down a tropical river was sure a relaxing and memorable way to view the jungle.
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