Comprising a Life | The Bonsai, Travels and Haiku of Vaughn Banting

On our way to Tortuguera

From Cartago we took an old converted passenger train, that used to haul lemons and bananas to the coast, to get to Purto Limon and from there we then transfered to a small bus that took us to a jungle river that took us to our destination.

At our first stop Paul and I tranfered to the caboose.

Here comes another caboose

Paul from caboose window

Isolated houses, the train their only link with the world

View of the river the train woud follow more or less all the way to the coast

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Hydroelectric plant

Land slides

We and the train weaving through cloud forest

We were lucky, they say usually clouds obscure trestle and the engineer plunges accros in blind faith

Repairing where the track gave way that morning and delayed our departure by three hours

Serving mangos on the train

Park in Purto Limon

Ships off Purto Limon

Here we were taken by bus to the river.