Shuttle bus | Xi'an | Jan 26, 2006 17:57
I got caught with the "shuttle bus" trick. A tour guide we had signed up with said the group of other tourists scheduled on our trip to the Burried Warriors had cancelled and that they would put us on another shuttle. It turned out we had to wait for about 2 1/2 hours for the shuttle to fill up.

As the bus filled up, some of the first passengers got off - they were planted there to make the bus appear full so more people would think "this shuttle will leave pretty soon."

Then it drove around with the ticket seller hanging out the window trying to drum up some last minute business!

The bus stopped at heaps of dumb places on the way there and the way back. A group of Chinese people got so fed up that they demanded their money back and got off. They caught a public bus.