airbus-feel inside the bus

i know it only exist in mega cities around the world. it ferries people from and to their work daily and those who travels not on fastest train and largest airplanes. i only see or experience them in movies.

being from mindanao and who resides again in the beautiful and peaceful island of mindanao (only those who have not set foot on mindanao will consider mindanao as a war-torn island), i did not expect i could travel in such kind of transport i only saw in movies. i am refering to the newly-acquired King Long bus unit of Rural Tours/Transit Corporation or whatever you call it. 

i was amazed because i believe that if Philipppines will have this sort, it would only ply the routes of major cities in luzon and in the vizayas; and not in the Land of Promise. i consider this as a good sign that, indeed, mindanao is no longer of that iraq-like image which the media always projects to the people. i am happy that we, mindanaons, are also enjoying the finer side life in our own backyard. 

the King Long Bus unit that plies CDO-Davao and CDO-Butuan routes today is the same unit you’ll see in high-budget holywood movies. you’ll have the feel of riding on an airbus manufactured airplane yet you are inside the bus traveling on land. it’s interior is patterned on the interior of an airplane, only that its overhead storage box/cabin is slightly smaller tailored to fit in the bus.