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» The Worst Journey in the World
Ethiopian bus etiquette
Apparently it is not the done thing to open the windows on an Ethiopian bus because some folks there believe they will catch TB from the rapidly moving air.
This means that you will spend 14 hours in a steaming hellhole surrounded by some of the smelliest people on this earth, and you will probably catch TB due to the fetid air and the rasping coughs of half the occupants. The driver will chew qat for the entire journey to ensure he is at the peak of concentration while negotiating crumbling mountain roads at speed and, for the last 4 hours of the journey, in the dark. Light relief will be provided every 3 hours or so when someone attempts to open a window and a fistfight breaks out.
You will then disembark, eat an appalling meal (but you will not complain - you are in Ethiopia after all), attempt to sleep in a rat-infested "hotel" between paisley-stained sheets, then get up at first light to spend another 10 hours doing the same thing all over again.
Only this time you will have diarrhoea.
(Thu 7th Sep 2006, 21:13, More)
Ethiopian bus etiquette
Apparently it is not the done thing to open the windows on an Ethiopian bus because some folks there believe they will catch TB from the rapidly moving air.
This means that you will spend 14 hours in a steaming hellhole surrounded by some of the smelliest people on this earth, and you will probably catch TB due to the fetid air and the rasping coughs of half the occupants. The driver will chew qat for the entire journey to ensure he is at the peak of concentration while negotiating crumbling mountain roads at speed and, for the last 4 hours of the journey, in the dark. Light relief will be provided every 3 hours or so when someone attempts to open a window and a fistfight breaks out.
You will then disembark, eat an appalling meal (but you will not complain - you are in Ethiopia after all), attempt to sleep in a rat-infested "hotel" between paisley-stained sheets, then get up at first light to spend another 10 hours doing the same thing all over again.
Only this time you will have diarrhoea.
(Thu 7th Sep 2006, 21:13, More)