Travel Logs: The strangest forms of transport

Saturday Class November 17th 2018

What is the strangest form of transport you’ve ever seen?

My answer to this question would have to be in Vietnam. The transport wasn’t strange to me but the way it was being used was. In Vietnam a scooter can be a family car.

It is probably a lot of fun for the children and cheap for the parents. In Vietnam the scooter is the most common form of transport. 

One thing I noticed while I was in Vietnam was how few crossings there were. I also noticed that there weren’t many traffic lights. So if you want to cross the road you just cross. Don’t run, don’t stop. Just keep walking straight and you won’t get hit.

I found it fascinating although the people I was travelling with thought it was terrifying.

The next step was to do some research. I asked the students to do their own research into unusual forms of transportation using their smart phones. After doing a bit of research they had to answer the following five questions:

Where is it?

Why do people like it?

How much does it cost?

How many people use this kind of transportation?

Would you like to use it? why? why not?

I did some research and found these interesting forms of transport. I’d like to try them all.

All of them show the ingenuity of humans. I personally would love to own a Jeepney.  Not as a job but as a personal treasure.