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The Lunatic Express: Discovering the World... via Its Most Dangerous Buses, Boats, Trains, and Planes
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Jalan! Jalan! THE HEAT FELT THICK enough to touch. Sweat dripped from my temples and I couldn’t keep the flies off. Smoke from hundreds of cigarettes hung in the air like faded, yellowed lace curtains. I was three decks down, in ekonomi—steerage—on the Bukit Siguntang, a 479-foot-long steel ferry operated by Pelni, the Indonesian government-owned shipping line. The Siguntang officially carried 2,003 souls, all but 300 in third class, but it seemed as if every man, woman, and child in Jakarta were swarming into her belly. There were no beds or bunks—just two open decks full of knee-high, linoleum-covered platforms on which we were supposed”
― The Lunatic Express: Discovering the World . . . via Its Most Dangerous Buses, Boats, Trains, and Planes
Jalan! Jalan! THE HEAT FELT THICK enough to touch. Sweat dripped from my temples and I couldn’t keep the flies off. Smoke from hundreds of cigarettes hung in the air like faded, yellowed lace curtains. I was three decks down, in ekonomi—steerage—on the Bukit Siguntang, a 479-foot-long steel ferry operated by Pelni, the Indonesian government-owned shipping line. The Siguntang officially carried 2,003 souls, all but 300 in third class, but it seemed as if every man, woman, and child in Jakarta were swarming into her belly. There were no beds or bunks—just two open decks full of knee-high, linoleum-covered platforms on which we were supposed”
― The Lunatic Express: Discovering the World . . . via Its Most Dangerous Buses, Boats, Trains, and Planes
“If there was an international language between men in the world, it was about women.”
― The Lunatic Express: Discovering the World... via Its Most Dangerous Buses, Boats, Trains, and Planes
― The Lunatic Express: Discovering the World... via Its Most Dangerous Buses, Boats, Trains, and Planes
