Chicken Buses

It's one of first things a backpacker in Central America learns about: the old buses that look like differently painted American school buses and charge you about 1€ for a 1h-ride. Aside from being incredible cheap, they ate known as a must-do experience.
Basically, Chicken Buses are just really not comfortable, which is mainly because of the drivers that reminded me of the song “es gibt nur ein Gas: Vollgas“. That means, in every curve you could watch people clinging on the back of the seat in front of them and leaning into the opposite direction. After an hour you have had a compete arm workout. I was impressed by the driver's helper who stood the whole ride next to the open front door without seeming to be afraid at all.Read more