Yay, it’s cow transport time!
Meaning I have another amazing example from the Masters of Transport and Logistics files!
Previous example that I’ve featured here include:
- Supply Chain Management Pics
- Adventure Motorcycles – The Toilet Brush Version!
- The Worst Motorcycle Load Ever
- The Indonesian Scooter
- The Multipurpose Scooter
- The Floating Washing Bucket
- Auto rickshaw mayhem
- Bucket seats from China
- Spring Chickens from Cambodia
- Buffalo Rides from Vietnam
- The Satellite Dish Scooter
- The Vietnamese Pig Courier
- How To Ride A Bike – With An Ox
- Memorial Monuments – Motorbike Safety, and
- The Cat Man From Vietnam
Anyway, today’s funny travel photo is from my same friend who also sent through the Motorbikes for Kids pic where one motorbike can transport a family of five all around the place!
He’s been bumming around some small island in the Philippines for a while. I think he’s too scared to come back to ‘civilisation’ as I think he’s adapted to a much simpler form of life.
I can’t blame him – work is really overrated!
Anyway, he spotted this amazing site of…
Tricycle Cow Transport!
Yep, a small motorised vehicle that is a vital transport link for people who don’t have a car or a motorbike.
Looks like the cow has the tricycle all to itself!
Anyway, my friend did comment that ‘Cows must pay better than people because this cow has the tricycle to itself. They fit up to 9 people in these normally.’
Well, if this cow is about to become a source of sustenance, it would probably take some priority!
Hey, but this is the reality of getting by in the third world. As I’ve said many times on this silly blog, I admire these people who get by doing whatever they need to do to survive daily life.
It’s improvisation at it’s best. I’m sure us well off Westerners with first world problems like deciding which smart phone to buy wouldn’t stand a chance of surviving in the third world conditions that most of the world’s population has to endure through no fault of their own – just because they were unlucky to be born there.
Anyway, this is an impressive photo – and good on to those who are trying to make a go of it in the Philippines. Almost as impressive as the Road Trains in Australia!
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LOL on the tri-riding cow. I hear your friend too. I do dig time in the States with fam but it is fun to live a simpler, basic life in developing nations, being free of politics, the rat race and other insane influences. I miss Thailand and Bali LOL. Time to book a trip back. Because I do not see enough cows on tricycles in New Jersey Anthony.
Ryan
Cool!
This must have been a unique experience and you will definitely remember it, Anthony! Thanks for sharing your adventure with us!
Haven’t been in tricycle WITH a cow…yet!