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Quick accout of an 18 hour bus journey.
18:45 - we should be getting on the bus. We lug our stuff over to the door and hang round for a bit. 15 minutes later, we ask the security guard on the door if we can pass through yet. He knocks us back.
Precisely 30 seconds later, the tannoy announces that we can get on the bus and we get shoved out the way by big mexican women with kids.
22:00 and 00:00 - the bus stops to let people on and off. We get woken up by the really bright lights they switch on when they get to a terminal. Not amused.
2:20 - We arrive at another terminal and are informed that we must all get off the bus and wait for 20 minutes before we can get back on. The reason why is beyond our comprehension. Marthe changes seats cos it´s raining on her inside the bus and we didn´t pay nearly 1000 pesos to get rained on.
4:05 - The bus stops and the lights go on and we are all ordered off the bus. The army guys by the side of the road make us stand under a gazebo and then haul random bags off the bus to look through. Mine gets checked. The (really fit) army guy looking through my bag seems baffled by exactly how compacted all the stuff inside is. Yes, I have amazing packing skills. He pulls a load of stuff out the top. I had shoved my dirty underwear and socks in the top the day before. I hoped he did´n´t pull those out too. The army guy then attempts to repack the top of my rucksack, and does it very badly. Mook.
8:00 we stop in some really bizarre roadside cafe diner thing and go to the (dirty) loos and get some fruit cocktail (scurvy avoidance). Marion got told by some random guy that her face was ugly. She grabbed my arm in confusion and I turned round wanting to punch him (I was tired and angry) and his smirking mates but he was quite tall so I swore at him in English and we walked off.
1:00 we arrive in TAPO and face the metro mish to our various camas for the night.
Never again.
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