The novel new business in Hong Kong is putting on lengthy 85-kilometre bus journeys as a possible cure for insomnia.
The “bus ride to nowhere” allows passengers to relax during a five-hour drive aboard the double-decker sightsighting motor coach.
“Every Hong Konger has stress from work, from affording a flat, from life, and now we can’t go traveling,” passenger Ho Wai told AFP during the trip. “With all this stress adding up, I think a lot of Hong Kongers aren’t sleeping well.”
The 85-kilometre journey was meticulously routed. Frankie Chow, president of Ulu Travel and the person behind the concept, said he created a circuit with the least amount of traffic lights possible so passengers wouldn’t awake when the bus started and stopped so often.
“I think everyone has experienced not being able to sleep at home but they can sleep very soundly on a bus as the bus swings and vibrates,” Wai said.
Tickets cost US$12 for seats on the lower deck and US$51 for the upper deck for a ride beginning in a busy urban district and continuing on coastal highways to the city’s airport.
Throughout the pandemic, Hong Kong has maintained some of the world’s harshest quarantine measures and travel restrictions in an effort to curb infection rates.
“In the past, I would go to the airport [for travelling] each month,” another male passenger told AFP. “Aside from sleeping, this tour also gives us a sense of travelling.”
The “bus ride to nowhere” allows passengers to relax during a five-hour drive aboard the double-decker sightsighting motor coach.
“Every Hong Konger has stress from work, from affording a flat, from life, and now we can’t go traveling,” passenger Ho Wai told AFP during the trip. “With all this stress adding up, I think a lot of Hong Kongers aren’t sleeping well.”
The 85-kilometre journey was meticulously routed. Frankie Chow, president of Ulu Travel and the person behind the concept, said he created a circuit with the least amount of traffic lights possible so passengers wouldn’t awake when the bus started and stopped so often.
“I think everyone has experienced not being able to sleep at home but they can sleep very soundly on a bus as the bus swings and vibrates,” Wai said.
Tickets cost US$12 for seats on the lower deck and US$51 for the upper deck for a ride beginning in a busy urban district and continuing on coastal highways to the city’s airport.
Throughout the pandemic, Hong Kong has maintained some of the world’s harshest quarantine measures and travel restrictions in an effort to curb infection rates.
“In the past, I would go to the airport [for travelling] each month,” another male passenger told AFP. “Aside from sleeping, this tour also gives us a sense of travelling.”
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