Vehicles of China




There are so many strange things about China, but we have now become accustomed to many of them. The cars however, are not in this category. I think it is because they honk so loudly at us all the time as we are peacefully walking down the sidewalk minding our own business. There are so many cars and trucks and buses here that would have long since been decommissioned in North America. They are rusty, falling apart, and they smoke when they are turned on. Unfortunately, we usually see the best ones when we DO NOT have the camera with us (clearly we need iphones), but here are a few that we have managed to capture on film.

These little beauties are EVERYWHERE, they haul families, seaweed, garbage....you name it.




This is the pedal version of the previous one. They seem to last forever! 



"The Blue ones DON'T stop" These are the taxis. Yes the are ALL blue and YES they are the most dangerous vehicles on the road.

This is a typical bike in Jinshitan, the village where we live.

This is Timio and Paul on Tim's Scoot-scoot. I dont think there is anything else to say here.

This is a SIX seater POLICE golf cart. WTC!

This is a "traditional" bamboo raft made out of PVC pipe. Yay environment!

The China version of the Dodge MPV van. The seat you can see in the slider door, folds down, so you can cram more people in.

This is a Man. A Mini-van. It has 3 wheels and a joy stick. Yes the men standing in front have bowed their heads to its awesome-ness.