The famous Guatemalan chicken bus!!
These buses are the best way to get around here in my opinion because they are fast and cheap. I´m not really sure if there are other buses other than these and expensive private shuttles. They pack people in so tightly that you cant move and the general rule seems to be three people per seat or more, eekk very cramped but it gets you where you need to be. If people in the US had to take packed buses like this I think that violence would break out lol, people here dont seem to mind small inconveniences like people in the US. They seem to have an abundent amount of patience. While I was riding on one of these this weekend i spent a great deal of time trying to translate a sign in the front of the bus. I finally came to the understand that it said ¨Dont tell your God how big your problems are, Tell your problems how big your God is¨. I wonder how it is that this optimistic attitude seems to prevail here in a country where so many people struggle for the essentials yet in the US where many people experience abundence the attitude is not so often contentment with what one has but rather the want for more.