What happened yesterday is hard to believe... Over the last few days I have been spending time with Charlene - a lovely girl I met here in Guatemala, at the Atitlan lake a few days ago and we instantly became two happy-go-lucky Canadian and Polish muckers....
Yesterday going from Chapmerico at the Pacific Ocean to Quetzaltenango in the mountains, the following event happened..
Chicken bus, a symbol of Guatemala. Super ordinary for the locals, an attraction for the foreigners. It used to be a school bus in America, now it is proudly prowling the roads of Guatemala. In one of them we were travelling through the mountains, and suddenly the driver stops. Whats going on? A car speeding on our lane and going to hit us as the driver shouts: 'Everyone to the back of the bus!'? A moose or other animal on the road, so maybe we are just waiting for it to cross the road? No... Armed guys robbing a car in front of us, armed in machetes, and rummaging through the car........... Everyone in the bus flinging themselves to the back of the bus and hiding themselves in the narrow spaces between the rows. Charlene did not understand what was going on, what I heard was ' Give me your money, give me all what you have got!!!' etc. We were the only tourists in the bus.. A thought crossing my mind: will they get on the bus?If they will, it will suck... Everyone trying to be as quiet as possible. My heart beating fast. All of the sudden the driver revs off. Quickly, as quickly as possible. It turned out the thieves had fled to the forest, they spared us. The bus instantly becomes noisy, people start talking, loud beat can be heard again in the speakers. Back to normal. The guy behind us says it happens often, they dont kill, its not as bad as in Mexico, they just rob you. All you have to do is to accept the loss. Otherwise it can be worse.. It took us more time than the rest of the bus crowd to cool down I think. Thanks God that nothing bad happened..
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