A typical bus ride for us so far (and just about everyone else we've spoke to) involves this:
- get picked up by a mini bus.
- pick up more people until the bus is completely full.
- drive to a 'bus station' and get forced into another similar bus.
- drive to a other tour agency and deflect repeated attempts at getting you to purchase follow on travel any number of other annoying scams.
- stop at friend of drivers restaurant where sammiches suddenly are impregnated with gold and platinum cause the price for a crappy cheese sammich has inexplicably quadrupled in price.
- get dropped off either in a bus station which is atleast 50 km away from where they said they would drop you off or at another tour agency.
Today we were dropped off at a tour agency and told to go find the ferry which was somewhere down the road. After a couple phone calls the bus driver was nice enough to physically point the way to the ferry and walked down there. What a crazy place this is.
The pic is a typical sight of a tour agency with us trying to figure out where on earth we are and how we're going to get to where we need to go. The guy to the immediate left of Carolyn is on the phone trying to figure our what to do with us. He was actually a really nice guy ... Most drivers stop, push you out and drive away laughing.
I think you two have taken more mass transit and I use that loosely in the past 6 weeks then you have in your whole lives LOL. Keep up the good work and continue to have fun. Miss you
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