Guatemala Transportation Services and other options for traveling around Guatemala.
We start this post with the different forms of Transportation offered to travelers to Guatemala, depending on the experience you desire. Starting with Chicken Bus.
A chicken bus (Spanish: “trambilla”, the latter a hypercorrection of “tranvía“) is a colloquial English name for a colorful, modified, and decorated bus that transports goods and people between communities in various Latin American countries, especially Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama. In the latter country, chicken buses are also known as “Diablos Rojos”.
A typical chicken bus features two young men who partner to operate the bus. One with a license takes the role of the driver, while the other takes the role of ayudante or “helper” for customer service issues.
The ayudante is responsible for passengers and luggage, collecting money, and organizing the suitcases, livestock, produce, etc., onto the roof of the bus–often while in motion. Loudly announcing the destinations the bus is reaching is also a responsibility.
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