Agreed👍

Exactly

Yes!!!

Any names?

@@Vinnie101a vicarious voyager for me

Haha thanks Will - will you be joining me on my next Indian bus adventure?

@@noelphilips haha never say never mate. How about the palace on wheels 🚂

@@Trektrendy no la premier on this bus!

why is he brave????? because he took a bus in India???? hahaha, your concept of brave is clearly different to the rest of us lol

@@charlesjay8818Got enough question marks in there Charlie?

I was thinking it would have been better on a lower bunk.

That is not the case in Southern India. The bus body, bus chassis and obviously the highway are better here. Quite surprised. Here people prefer night trips.

@@lokeshwaranvr agreed !! I am from Canada but was born in India , everytime I travel back to India I take the Sleeper to my hometown and South Indian sleepers are great !! Especially on the Volvos !!

I recently did Goa-Hyderabad on upper bunk, and the roads of Karnataka were hell and this upper bunk added to all the more aboard Intrcity Service. Roads got better once the Bus entered Telangana/Mumbai-Hyderabad Highway. So please stop this North South it's about Service You choose. This service was for Ahmedabad and Gujarat falls in West 🇮🇳. if You look at the condition of Roads they were 4-6 laned Roads. Unfortunately the condition of the Bus by Bharat Benz not compatible for long Journeys as it is fuel efficient therefore the greedy Zingbus operator( it is 1 among the famed Service though) seems scam bug. Else M. R Bus Service would have been a great option indeed. Volvo, Scania, Mercedes etc are real Time cozy includes Sleeper/semi sleeper of State owned Services by Haryana Roadways, Himachal Rtc, Rajasthan, Punbus, Up & Uttarkhand etc. If You will Travel towards North belt (Chandigarh, Manali, Jammu, Ameristar, Shimla, Jaipur etc) this would not be the same as commented by You. If You Travel by Intrcity, Indo-Canadian, Laxmi Holidays, Southern Travels, Reo Travels etc. Therefore it depends upon Quality of Bus Service and Route. It's not about North or South. ☮

jkcoooll Agree ,especially ''drivers do not get enough sleep'' and over night buses '' Safety is the least on the minds of Indians.

That is right 😂

GUJRATI CHIPS

You must be an NRI then 😂

Exactly 😂

Hihihi you must be from the upper class

it was insane, brave brave Noel

He does it so we don't have to or decide based on the real truth without sugarcoating it.

He was freezing in the bus

I get it though..its all part of exploring..finding out for yourselves

Be in your cold mess rather..

appreciate the username

I hate Indian

Salty much?

Thanks Dale! Glad you enjoy the videos!

@Devyan Utsav was i talking to you no BLOCKED

its common sense. why would you travel such long distance in a bus when you got 10s of trains every day between ahmedabad and delhi and you could afford all of them theyll take you in 12 hours max.

Hey Noel what did you prefer more kenya or india

I would fly if I could but going on the bus you see the beauty and the best views

Comparing a war torn,wretched country with one of the most diverse country in the world with amazing natural diversity, ethnic and cultural diversity which is also the fastest growing economy in the world? Really?

Yeah, the real evil eye

Nothing like that, staring something unfamiliar out of curiosity is just a very common habit people have there

Indians really like to stare, as an indian american I don’t know why, other than the culture is just vastly different and staring isn’t viewed as impolite

Wow, thank you!

I like his and the ones that doe 1st class too. Truth is, only way I'm ever gonna experience £5000 travel is from someone else's eyes 😂

@@rageplayer20 Anything is possible! Dreams become goals that become reality.

L 0o

@@noelphilips your a braver man than me

same! I would NEVER do these things. What if you get sick, or get in a bad accident. you'll just die.

Same hes got Carl Pilkington vibes almost

You know you can put in times in KZfaq where it will be uploaded automatically

@@Philmaster07 I know but I wasn’t referring to that.

@@Philmaster07 I didn't know that. Now that's kinda worrying lol anyone know if he made it safe?

That guy on the bus was eyeing him down when he was buying those snacks. I thought for sure his stuff was going to get stolen when he got back from eating his burger.

@@Gamebreaker08 He was just curious about Noel. Because he may have seen a foreigner for the first time in his life.

Thank you kindly

Should have given him 200 or 250 max. Spoiling the market for other tourists by giving him 500.

Unfortunately, many people do not understand that paying a much higher price than agreed upon is what breaks prices in the long run. The next tourist they will no longer offer 150, but 300 as the lower limit. Sorry that was really not good. You must not start from your own sense of money but must always put yourself in the country.

That box is supposed to hold shoes there.

I'm from Brazil, it's western, but still a third world country. This chaos is so surprising. It's too much for me, but I love watching it!

India is certain a culture I do not need to experience. Good country for me to stay away from.

⁠​⁠@@jschudel777 that works out well since I guess we didn’t ask you to experience it either. Cheers!

@tjnucnuc haha the feeling is same for us Indians when we see the Western Culture. Quite Bizarre.

Now that would make a good video.. a luxury bus trip in Uganda.

@noel philips please do video in Uganda riding a bus😀

Now that sounds like next level from this haha

As a Ugandan who has ridden multiple times on the "luxury" night buses, the indian bus is actually better! So spare your back the misery and pain. The hard cushion seats recline a little bit, maybe 45 degress and that is just about all the luxury you will get. There is no air conditioning, and some of our "roads" are well, "roads".

@@jmagx Sounds like fun, I would love to visit Uganda and watch some gorillas in the jungle.

Thank you, I appreciate it.

😭

I wish if English would have taught us “civic sense”🤣🤣something which we Indians terribly lack

Those things are moving death traps once they pick up speed. You should see the ones in Mumbai in the wee hours. Riding one is not for the faint hearted at that time of night. I make a point to tell the driver that I'm in no hurry.

@@usernamesoldout Those are only meant for cities not highways.

They see a giant Englishman with recording equipment talking to himself. Of course they're going to be curious.

If I was on the bus, I might have watched too to make sure noel isn’t getting the foreigner rates for the chips, which I think he did

yep, privacy is something quite alien to most Indians - and being white and with a couple of cameras, he would attract even more overt attention!

If I see a pale white person recording on a go pro in middle of a sea of brown people, i am staring Sorry

That same guy would come to help you if he is in deep shit We are a curious lot, no intention to creep anyone out

It was gas, gas is cheaper than petrol.

Thank you, I appreciate it.

Content bro.

It's different when you do it for adventure vs doing it out of need.

He's a glutton for punishment. 🤣

In my first visit to India I arrived with 2 friends in Chennai in November 1978 and we went by train from there to Delhi. It was a good introduction to India. In many visits since I've mostly travelled by train. Last visit was 2012 though, with age I find that kind of travel a bit difficult.

Self inflicted torture tickles Noel's fancy

well to be fair it was a mercedes, but a lower end one. he wouldn't know unless he was told I guess.

Well, an update: I visited India last month, and remembering this video, took a bus overnight from Pune in Maharashtra to Dharwad in northern Karnataka. It was a Volvo AC double axle sleeper bus. One of the worst travel experiences. Ever. 😄 Bumpy, vey noisy (diver kept loudly honking, like every 3-4 ministers 😣), and no toilet in the bus. To top it all, the driver swerved so much, all the passengers were rolling from side to side like sausages rolled in a pan 😆. Never again. 😑

I will never say a bad word about National Express again!

Very different to the ones they operate in the West Midlands which are actually Buses and some you can fall asleep on as they have Leather Seats, Extra Leg Room, USB Charging and Next Stop Announcements. They are also mostly smooth, comfortable and get you where you want to go without much hassle and also without the constant tossing and throwing about as the drivers are proffesionals

@@noelphilips i would love to see you do a trip on the longest national express service!

KSRTC!!!

Yes Karnataka’s KSRTC luxury buses are the best in country

He got the real Indian bus ride experience!!

Jodhpur -banglore bus trip currently longest

The pictures I've seen of Indian traffic in the 80s or so were, in their way, even worse. A modest number of cars trucks and tuk-tuks shared the road with a few animals and _throngs_ of people, as in you couldn't see the road surface for people! To my eyes, the traffic in this video actually looked safer, for the most part.

I know what you mean but I just booked a week long across 5 countries on my own. You just have to take that step

A mausoleum you might get made dead in if the driver falls asleep half way through his 12 hour night drive.

Thanks for sharing!

Thanks 👍

You Buffoon. At that speed it shouldnt shake.

@@gogadev Are you the owner of Zingbus??? What’s wrong with you… he said truth..

10 ℅ of Indian earn more than 21000 rs per month (300 usd /month).

Funnily enough, there is an option to choose a tuk-tuk here in the Uber app, often much cheaper than a car.

To put it in perspective, he lay on a bench for a bit. Its not the most impressive feat of mankind, but entertaining nontheless.