CHICKEN BUS

The public transportation in Guatemala is either by chicken bus or tut tut. Tut tuts are primarily in Antigua and dont venture far out of town. The chicken buses are all over the country. Chicken buses are either used in town or they go from town to town and many stops in between. To ride a chicken bus is deffinently a low cost way to travel the country.



You need to be careful when selecting a bus to ride on, some of the buses look to have seen better days while others are a piece of art. In Guatemala there is no smog control or pollution control devices on the vehicles, with the windows open or busted out of the bus your lungs may get filled with black soot from the tail pipe of the bus or surrounding vehicles. Also if you are claustrophobic you may want to find another mode of transportation. Buses are designed to have two passengers per seat but with no rules in Guatemala any thing go's. I have been on chicken buses where there are 3 and 4 people per seat along with people standing in the aisle and hanging out the door and on the bumper, a tad bit overloaded but me made it to our destination alive.

Every body that has ever rode on a chicken bus and has lived to tell about it can not wait to tell others. This portion of that lens is going to be links to some great stories by others that have shared them.