* South Africa - If you think SA buses are bad, try India
My most hair-raising bus trips have all been in India, where the drivers, to a man, rely on acts of God to save them from disaster, rather than blame them for it... Cape Town,South Africa -Cape Times/IOL, by John Scott -(originally published Jan 3, 2007) -May 2007: -- An expert on long-distance buses in other countries, I confess I have never travelled by bus from one city to another in South Africa... To be fair to South African buses, they may not be the worst... All have images of one or other Hindu god or goddess dangling above them in the driver's cab, with pictures of their favourite guru pasted on the windscreen for good measure... They drive on their horns, which often take the form of a shrieking whistle. This is to clear the road in front of pedestrians, rickshaws, motor scooters, bullock carts, holy cows, chickens, pariah dogs, beggars and other oncoming buses. Many of the roads aren't wide enough to accommodate two buses, so both drivers blow their horns at each other and the one with the least nerve gives way first... You don't want to travel near the front of these buses if your own nerves aren't strong, though on one trip the bus was so full I had to sit beside the driver on the engine... On another I had to get out with the other passengers and push...
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