transportation

Ice Cream Trishaw

Monday, 22 March 2010
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Ice Cream Trishaw

Most of you probably have ice cream trucks or bicycles where you live. i'm thinking probably trucks. Here, it's mostly trishaws. Same general principle...
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This is a trishaw…

Saturday, 6 March 2010
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This is a trishaw…

A month and a half back, Fahim and I were returning home when we saw this truck. ... Cuz I really don't think we're in an alternate universe right now, you know? As it turns out, we got our answer when the car we were in passed the truck.
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Earthworms

Tuesday, 2 March 2010
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Earthworms

A month and a half back, Fahim and I were returning home when we saw this truck. ... Cuz I really don't think we're in an alternate universe right now, you know? As it turns out, we got our answer when the car we were in passed the truck.
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Spider!

Monday, 1 March 2010
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Spider!

A month and a half back, Fahim and I were returning home when we saw this truck. ... Cuz I really don't think we're in an alternate universe right now, you know? As it turns out, we got our answer when the car we were in passed the truck.
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Things that make me go “hmm?”

Sunday, 28 February 2010
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Things that make me go “hmm?”

A month and a half back, Fahim and I were returning home when we saw this truck. ... Cuz I really don't think we're in an alternate universe right now, you know? As it turns out, we got our answer when the car we were in passed the truck.
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Favourite Photos of 2004

Saturday, 2 January 2010
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Favourite Photos of 2004

I don’t know how he does it, I really don’t. Fahim can fall asleep in the weirdest positions. Like this. I mean, here you can clearly see him yawning, but he can and does sleep like this, too. This is our most common form of transportation here – a trishaw, also known as a...
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Sri Lanka’s Bus System

Thursday, 3 December 2009
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Sri Lanka’s Bus System

In Sri Lanka, there’s the government-run bus system and then there are the privately-owned buses. The big red bus is a government bus. The white buses behind it could be either government buses or privately-owned buses. Both the government and the private buses run on the same routes. The private buses tend to go...
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Project 365 Day 51 – Out and About

Tuesday, 27 October 2009
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Project 365 Day 51 – Out and About

This might just end up being a regular thing with me. I’ve mentioned before that all sorts of things are sold at the side of the road. Selling rattan furniture is no exception. Of course I have the requisite wandering cow photo. I always have a requisite wandering cow photo. Then there’s the guy...
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Transporting an elephant

Friday, 1 May 2009
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Transporting an elephant

In Sri Lanka, there are many elephants. There’s the elephant orphanage, there are elephants at the zoo, elephants are used in parades (and likely festivals, too), and elephants are even used in construction. Yep, some elephants are working elephants, hauling logs and the like. Ever wonder how these elephants get around? Take a look...
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And yet ANOTHER example of the types of vehicles that shouldn’t be driving down our road. . .

Friday, 7 May 2004
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And yet ANOTHER example of the types of vehicles that shouldn’t be driving down our road. . .

You’d think they’d learn. Eventually. Evidently, they have not. It’s a truck carrying a load of scrap metal. They took a run for it – the corner, that is – then backed up. Then took another run for it. Then backed up. Then took another run for it. And backed up. Again. Finally, they...
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