Deck Trek

Deck Trek is the fourth level in Donkey Kong Country's pseudo-sequel, Donkey Kong Land. It is also the fourth area in Gangplank Galleon Ahoy!, the game's first world.

This level takes place on a ship, beginning on its deck. As they progress through the level, though, the Kongs will have to climb up many long ropes and make their way to the ships highest mast. Ropes will not only help them on there way up. Barrels appear several times in this level, and can shoot the heroes at hard-to-reach places. If they are lucky, the monkeys may even land in a barrel that will shoot them to a Bonus Level. To add some difficulty into Deck Trek, the Kongs will have to avoid Mini Neckies, Gnawties, Zingers, Slippas, and Kritters on their journey to the top of the ship. A few Mincers also appear here as well, although only in a Bonus Level. Expresso the Ostrich appears in a Bonus Level.

Level Layout
From the start of the level, the Kongs must jump up a ledge and climb up a set of ropes to reach a mast. They will have to head to the left and find another set of ropes to climb. When they hop up to the next mast from there, the must hop up a few more masts and soon come up to a lone rope. As they travel up this, they must avoid a few Mini Neckies and eventually jump to the left to land in a barrel. It will shoot them to a rope. They should jump over to another barrel there. This barrel will blast them to a set of ropes, which must be climbed to reach a mast, where the checkpoint can be found.

Once they hit the checkpoint, the monkeys should journey east and hop up a few masts. When they walk across the whole way, they must grab onto a lone rope and begin to climb it. While they move get up, they will have to watch out for several Mini Neckies shooting eggs at them. When they get to the end of this rope, they should jump off and hit another checkpoint.

From there, the Kongs must walk east again and travel up a rope to find another row of masts. There, they will have to defeat a Mini Necky to reach a large set of ropes. This must be climbed to get to more masts. When they are at the top of these ropes, the group must travel east and hop up a platform to find another rope. Once this is climbed, the heroes should head a little farther to the left and jump up several more small masts to reach yet another rope. After this thin rope is journeyed up, the monkeys must jump up some more masts, without bumping into any Gnawties. They will soon have to bounce up several more smaller masts again, trying not to hit any Slippas above them. At the top mast, they should jump to the left and land in a barrel. It will shoot them into an explosive barrel, near a portal. When the group jumps into this portal, they can use the explosive barrel to blow up any one of the two boulders blocking their path. They will lead to the fifth and sixth stages.

Bonus Level(s)

 * Right after the checkpoint, the Kongs must head east and jump into a barrel. It will shoot them into a Bonus Level, where they will have to sneak between to moving Mincers to grab the letter O. Once this is done, they should exit by using a nearby barrel.
 * Before the monkeys jump up several small platforms to reach a barrel at the end of a level, they should search around the western part of the area. They will soon find a barrel in mid-air, which they should jump in to enter the Bonus Level. There, they must break a crate to free the Animal Buddy, Expresso the Ostrich. Once this is done, they will have to ride on the bird to get over a wide abyss and grab the letter N and G. When they get to the other end of the abyss, they must walk into an entryway and exit the bonus. It should be noted that Expresso will not be with the Kongs when they are back in the main level.

Trivia

 * This level, along with Riggin' Rumble, are very similar to the rigging levels of Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest, as the heroes must climb up many masts to reach the highest point on a ship. In fact, it is likely that the ship levels of Donkey Kong Land inspired the developers of the game to make these rigging levels.