Worst Bus Ride in China (part one)

Guillin to Sanjiang:
Bus ride doesn't do it justice, it could be more accurately described as an extreme sport...
Imagine something along the lines of: earthquake/mudslide surfing, in a bus, near a river, overtaking other "too slow" trucks, with live chickens stuffed into the overhead compartments and you'll be getting pretty close. If you were imagining that there was a road... then you're getting colder.

First of all, the roads were shite due to landslides after all the rain, and were being worked on by teams of construction workers every couple of k's or so. Why they didn't just tell us that the entire route was under construction I will never know. So, having commited ourselves to the bus ride, we slid from side to side across the muddy "road" (which, for a lot of the way, is right next to a river with a steep enbankment) at maximum speed, and of course, where possible, over took any vehicle deemed "too slow" by the driver.

I tried to amuse and distract myself by singing "99 bottles of beer on the wall", first in English and then tried to translate it into Mandarin... much to Tim's embarrasment and disgust.

It was absolutely, positively, 100% without a doubt, hands down the worst bus ride all of us had ever been on (in any country) in the history of everything... touch wood.

Almost getting bogged on the "road"...

Plenty of "opportunities" to over take up ahead...

"... if one of them topples and accidentally falls, there'll be 98 bottles of beer on the wall"