"Diablos Rojos" in Antigua, Guatemala
All you Americans (and everyone else) check it out! Former American school buses that used to transport kids and children from home to school and school trips have found a 2nd home in Guatemala. Kind of nice (don't you think/) to retire in style, all painted up to look cool, and transport people to various places.
Antigua is a city 1 hour West of the capital of Guatemala (Guatemala City)
Check out 9:01 for a very angry dude giving the finger - why? haha
A chicken bus (Spanish: "trambilla", the latter a hypercorrection of "tranvía") is a colloquial English name for a colorful, modified and decorated bus that transports goods and people between communities in various Latin American countries, especially Honduras, Guatemala, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica and Panama. In the latter country, chicken buses are also known as "Diablos Rojos"
The base vehicle is usually a retired North American school bus on a light or medium truck chassis. The word "chicken" may refer to the fact that the buses are often crammed with passengers not unlike a truck load of chickens, or to the fact that Central Americans occasionally transport live animals on such buses-a practice that visitors from other countries often find remarkable. In Panama, the base vehicle can also be a passenger Toyota HiAce or Toyota Coaster or similar and is often left painted white. If a Toyota Coaster is used, the bus is known locally as a "Chiva", and if a Toyota HiAce is used, the van is called a "busito" instead.
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