Has anyone here ever had a really long bus ride? I mean like at least a day. Thinking about doing it because I have no other options.
>>939915
If you travel in Mexico choose ADO. Their brands are: AU (shittier tier), OCC and ADO (normal tier), ADO GL (plus tier).
Uh, yeah.
>23 hours from Hanoi to Vientiane
that was shit because they packed us in like Sardines, it was slow, and you had to sit on sacks of rice for 23 hours
>26 hours from Kunming to Anshun
only took mountain roads through villages, pretty sure I've seen the entire southwest corner of Guizhou.
>36 hours from Urumchi to Hotan
bus broke down just outside of Korla, arrived in Hotan at 4am where I almost got parted from everything I own by a gang of uighurs.
all my horror stories pale in comparison to my friend who took a Greyhound from coastal South Carolina all the way to Iowa to meet a girl that ignored him the entire time he was there! LELELELEL
>>939922
I'm taking the greyound across the united states. Got a 40 hour ride
>>939923
shit dude, my condolences.
protect your neck somehow from savages. hopefully you can find some high quality tranquilizers before you depart.
>>939926
So i cant just sleep the whole way? What happened to your friend?
Some of the longer bus rides I've had include:
> Istanbul, Turkey, to Tbilisi, Georgia
> 36 hours
> Ercis, Turkey, to Istanbul, Turkey
> 25 hours
> Istanbul, Turkey, to Athens, Greece
> 18 hours
> 20 hours on return to Istanbul from Athens
> Erbil, Iraq, to Van, Turkey
> 18 hours, nine of which were at the border
> Mumbai, India, to Goa, India
> 10 hours
> Jammu City, India, to New Delhi, India
> 13 hours
Not really that bad. Once you get used to long-distance buses, no trip seems to take too long, lol. Ten-hour car ride? No problem - that shit flies the fuck by.
>>939915
Vang Vieng > Siem Reap
Was supposed to take 30 hrs but ended up being closer to 40. 3 separate buses and a border crossing on some of the shittiest roads about. It's doable but not enjoyable
>>939941
Get some melatonin pills. It's over the counter and non habit forming (just don't take a lot of it because it's a hormone your body naturally produces so it starts under-producing and fucks up your natural sleep cycle).
Greyhounding is mostly just long and boring, so bring some headphones, a book, or something to entertain yourself when you're not sleeping.
It's not really sketchy or dangerous like it is in some other countries. I'm guessing >>939926
was referring to an incident a few years back when some guy had a psychotic episode on a bus in Canada and decapitated another passenger.
I once went on a bus from NYC to Virginia. I should have taken Amtrak instead.
Another time I took a bus to Buffalo. It totally sucked.
I learned the true meaning of suffering on the neverending bus journey from Varanasi to Kathmandu.
Longest ride was 15 hours, Palenque to Oaxaca. It was overnight so I slept for a long time although I kept waking up often.
No incidents on the way except for at the very beginning where 2 federales walked in and took off 2 guys from the bus. Those guys were questioned for like 30 minutes before being allowed back on.
>>940002
>Is the Hanoi to Vientiane journey as bad as it's made out to be?
Yeah dude, it's pretty bad. But it's pretty much the only option unless you want to fly I guess. Scenery isn't that great either as the bus leaves at night from Hanoi and gets to the border at the break of dawn. Then it's several more hours through scrubland along the riverside until you get to Vientiane. Felt so great when it was over though.
Took a 16 hour bus ride in Vietnam, on a cramped as fuck sleeper bus.
Wasn't great, but wasn't too bad. However, not once did the bus stop for food/toilet breaks.
Luckily somehow I didn't need to pee the whole time.
Protip: Sip water slowly, you never know when the next toilet stop may be. This applies more in the developing world.
>>940022
Oh man, I can't even last from Pokhara to KTM ;_;
bus pics thread now?
>Nimbin, Australia
>waiting to cross the Sungai Belait on my way to the Malaysian border.
they make you get out of the bus and take a water taxi to another bus. pretty inconvenient.
>on the way to siem reap, cambodia
>another one from the bus from phenom penh to siem reap
fuck it, water bus to chau doc, vietnam from pp.
>bus stop in meghalaya, india. on the way to silchar from shillong.
same trip, stuck at a river crossing
the road to osh just over the kyrgyz border from china
bishkek, east bus station
altyn arashan
crossing the laos/china border
another ferry crossing for the bus thread in yangshuo
somewhere north of nha trang, vietnam
bus stopped for a smoke/piss break on the side of the road
this was the vista at a bus lunch stop just north of hội an
brokedown bus oustside of kuqa
in the middle of the taklamakan desert
somewhere near khargilik
on the way to pakistan from kashgar
view from a roadside restaurant between kashgar and the kyrgyz border
view from the bus to la fortuna from tilaran
crossing the border between el salvador and guatemala
another ferry in the bus thread from roatan to la ceiba, honduras
on the way to ocotepeque
minibus to treasure beach from old kingston, jamaica
jamaica
ferry to ometepe, nicaragua
rivas, nicaragua
ferry across the straits of gibralter
restaurant at the seville, spain bus station
ive got some recent stuff from the caucasus but I think thats it for now
Yes with Student Agency for approx. 17 hours total. They have tv screens in the bus with some movies and basically a stewardess who brought free coffee after almost every stop. Quite comfy all-in-all except I can't sleep on busses. The end stop was more convenient to be picked up than flying and my shitload of luggage would have cost me a lot more as extra items.
>>939922
Hated the 26 hours from Vientiane to Hanoi so much I bought a motorbike upon arrival and never looked back.
>>939915
I travelled from NC to Alabama. You want to see the "real 'Muricans" travel by bus. That was an adventure.
>>939954
which was the bus line you used in Turkey? it was expensive?
I'd often take the greyhound from northern alberta to saskatoon. 18-20 hr bus rides with nothing remotely interesting to look out. Often filled with disrespectful alcoholic rig pigs that lost their licence and single moms with loud children.
The worst one was when i took the greyhound from grande prairie to prince albert saskatchewen. 26 hours. 4 of that were spent in the middle of the night in downtown edmonton in Winter.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BP59hS4dono
Vancouver - Montreal. 50+ hour drive...met a girl on the bus that was going to Halifax from Vancouver.
Funny part? Her employer was going to pay for her plane ticket but she was scared of planes..
>>941429
how does it work? do you not have to change busses? They just pull into a stop, change driver, fill up with fuel and keep going? how bad did the bus stink by the end of the trip?
