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Ticket sales

The banana bus, or the Camel as it is locally known is quite
an interesting form of transport. At times the passengers travelled
on the roof of it but I did not have my camera handy whenever that
occurred. The sale of tickets happened through the window like here
and if you were lucky you could actually stand somewhere. We tried
it and it was... cheap and quite an experience. It is amazing how much
respect people have for eachother.


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Kees Terberg05-Oct-2006 22:06
;¬)

Hehehe, nope, I did not know these things. Gracias amigo.
Jorge 05-Oct-2006 17:11
Kees, I don't know if you know but in Cuba on saturdays the govemerment shows an american movie on the TV where there is violence, action, sex, etc. So this is the other name cuban call this type of transportation "La pelicula del sabado", because there is violence, sex and bad language.
Kees Terberg16-Jun-2006 20:31
Yeah, I can imagine that this is not the most comfortable means of public transportation, especially when it is rush hour. We tried it outside the rush-hour and were impressed that the people on it respected each other. Kids stood up for the elderly which is something that you do not see very often in Europe any more. A mother with child stood up to let us sit but we refused. We also noticed that it could get quite challenging to get off the bus at the right stop. Yeah, it was an experience and I cannot say that it was a bad one. I can just imagine how hard it must be when the busses get really jammed with commuters.
RITA 16-Jun-2006 14:07
Kees viajar en el camello es una tortura cada vez que yo tenia que viajar en el que fueron pocas veces me ahogaba,cuamdo va lleno de persona hay es el dilema aunque este va vacio.Tiene buen sentido del humor.