Public Transport in Guatemala

Chicken Busses

Guatemala has the best public transportation I have ever encountered. There is an individually owned fleet of retired American and Canadian school busses. When they are deemed unsafe for America's children they are sold to Guatemalans. Here, they proceed to give them sick paint jobs, roof racks, bumpin sound systems, chrome grills, Jesus stickers, naked women, disco balls, and other bling. The thing that often remains is the sticker that says, "Your children's safety is our business." Which is totally bogus because they drive like maniacs. It is really a twisted combination of Nascar and timber-sports. Nascar for obvious reasons and timber-sports because of the bus-boy, who can do a 20m. dash, climb a ten foot ladder, and throw 30 kilo bags like nobody in Albany. And, Yes!, there are chickens.