Bus therapy

There were only a few times we managed to be able to sit down on the buses. You'll have to be able to hang on for dear life with your useable hand(s) and keep adjusting your feet for balance as you sway around corners. You may be on the bus for 30 minutes or more so be prepared. One time the bus was supposedly totally full and another 10 passengers crammed on.  If you only have one useable hand you are at a sizeable handicap for fending off the pickpockets. You carry nothing in any external pocket and carry everything valuable in a neck pouch.
Day packs are not used unless you wear them on your front because they will slice the bottom with a razor.
One year, our leader watched a pickpocket pull out a dirty handkerchief from someones pocket and realizing it was nothing valuable pushed it back in. The victim never realized it was going on. This year none of the group was hit by a pickpocket so we were lucky, saw a couple of groups that were obviously ones but they did nothing while we were watching them.