The public transportation to Bartica. Though technically it isn't public since every individual mode of transportation is privately owned and comes with it's own name (Cool Breeze, To Blessed to be Stressed, etc.). In order to get to Bartica from New Amsterdam without owning a car you get to the N.A. Ferry and take that boat across the Berbice River. Then take a Mini-bus to the Starbroek Market in Georgetown. Board a thirty person open boat which takes you across the Demerara river. Another Mini-Bus drive gets you to Parika. Here you get onto a one of these boats pictured here with fifteen others and travel up the Essiquibo river for over an hour. Both times we split the travel into two days. Even just half the journey takes about four or five hours if you are lucky. Each time you change a mode of transportation you often have to wait until that vehicle fills up. So Mini-buses can take a good half hour to fill. And depending on the day or the time of day the boat fills immediately, slowly, or interminably long. Amazingly enough everyone is given and actually wears a life preserver on the smaller open boats. The tree pictures is a mature Paw-paw which gives large fruit the shape of acorn squash exept larger. They are sort of a cross between a melon and a squash. Pretty tasty. Balkaran gave us one off of his tree.