Antigua’s Public Transportation
These buses are known are chicken buses on most travel guides. They make a great postcard and if you ride them, they will give you enough material for an exotic travel chronicle. They, however, do not make a good or safe transportation system. The saddest thing is that about 80% (maybe more) of Guatemala’s public transportation system is based on this old and uncomfortable school bus. The bus has a seat for two small children (they are school buses after all), yet they push to fit three adults or more on the same space.
I want to publicly thank Fred for being the first person to donate toward the hosting and domain expenses of Antigua Daily Photo, using the little blue button above the About me section on the sidebar.
Sidenote: Today is the monthly anniversary of AGDP and like the previous three months, I want to thank the 2,146 visitors who made 4,857 visits to this site in July. Antigua Guatemala Daily Photo has received 10,320 visits so far on its first 92 days of existence. Because of your continued visits, I have decided to move this blog onto a more stable and solid foundation. In the next few days I will make the switch from Blogger to WordPress. I am going to try to make the move as simple and trouble-free for you as possible. Have I mentioned how much I enjoy your comments? Shame on me.
Also, I want to invite you to visit the other Daily Photo Cities who are having a theme today. You can begin your journey at Kuala Lumpur Daily Photo.
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August 1st, 2006
This bus photo brings back memories of other countries I’ve visited, Again, a great way to share an aspect of your culture.
August 2nd, 2006
I would also like to thank Frank for helping to keep your site up and running. Good to know.
this bus reminds me of the buses we used to have here in KL. They crammed so many people until they were hanging out the door. None on the roof, of course.
Thank for for the Camera Lucida wiki links (I will look for that book) and thank for sending your readers to KLDP for their theme journey. have a good day Rudy
August 2nd, 2006
Oops, I mean Fred (not Frank). Sorry Fred!
August 2nd, 2006
Kate, see I said it, they are quite an experiece, but I do not believe this should be the everyday public transportation system for 70% of Guatemalans.
Edwin, my pleasure. Your photo was very dramatic (isn’t dramatic a word from theater?) and colorful.
November 15th, 2006
[...] One way to tour La Antigua Guatemala is through the horse-powered carriage rides around town. If you can obviate the buses, the automobiles, the motorcycles, the tuk tuks, in short—all modern vehicles, then you can almost feel like in the 18th century. Now, pull out your digital camera and set it in the sepia mode and shoot away. Tags: Antigua Daily Photo / Antigua / Guatemala / horse carriages / Santa Clara Ruins [...]
April 28th, 2007
[...] books!, other than that you could not tell the difference from PROBIGUA’s bibliobuses and the regular camionetas. If you don’t believe me, please browse over the 2,112 photos of chicken buses at Flickr [...]
November 26th, 2007
[...] crappy junk and retired school buses from up north and give them a second life as public transit chicken bus, mobile libraries chicken bus and now as a marimba orquesta mobile unit chicken [...]