Taking The Public Bus In The Seychelles And Other Death-Defying Adventures
This is NOT the bus we took. It IS a public bus but not the one we risked our lives by taking. (grins)
The Dear Wonderful Hubby and I enjoy taking public transit when we travel. It gives us a tiny slice of the average local’s life, it is less expensive, and…it is often an adventure.
That ended up being VERY true when we visited Victoria, Seychelles.
The first thing we learned was very few people took Euros (we were informed by online folks that they WOULD take Euros and that was incorrect). So we had to change money into the local currency.
Bus passes were sold at the terminal. There was a bit of a line up for them. But that was okay because buses left for routes once every hour or so and we had the time.
We got on the bus headed toward Fairyland Beach. This route had steep hills and the driver drove…aggressively.
He rode the bumper of the car ahead of us. And he drove QUICKLY, stopping and starting suddenly. We had to hang onto the seat back in front of us for dear life.
Even with that precaution, I exited the bus with a new collection of bruises. (grins)
There were turns so tight buses and large trucks had to take turns to navigate them.
At one point, I turned to the Dear Wonderful Hubby and whispered, “We are going to die.”
But we didn’t die. (laughs) And now we have a great story to tell.
Just know that taking the public buses in the Seychelles is NOT for the timid or the easily bruised!
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