I think I should be tired of reporting the varying driving habits of the different countries, however, I still find myself wondering how they do it. The roads are relatively wide (by Japanese standards), but the drivers insist on taking their half out of whatever side has an opening of any sort. The motorbikes swarm all over the roads, the tuk-tuks are weaving through the traffic and then the cars and trucks just honk their horns, expecting all of the motorbikes and tuk-tuks to immediately get out of their way – if they don’t the car drivers lean on the horns. Makes for a rather noisy road trip.
You can see the first tuk-tuk we took, along with our driver and guide, Piseph. I also just had to show a picture of a local gas station. Yes indeed, the bottles on the stand contain gasoline. She gets the gas from a gas truck – a tuk-tuk with a flat bed attached. On it are 10-12 large plastic containers of gas. He pours the gas into her liter sized bottles – old soda bottles, wine bottles, anything she can find that has a cap. Then, when a motorcycle needs gas, they come up, use her funnel, and pour gas into the bike. They do have a few places where there are barrels with the old style glass pump on it, probably used for cars. In the rural areas of Cambodia, there are no commercial gas stations so these enterprising folks are filling a real need for the community.
I think I should be tired of reporting the varying driving habits of the different countries, however, I still find myself wondering how they do it. The roads are relatively wide (by Japanese standards), but the drivers insist on taking their half out of whatever side has an opening of any sort. The motorbikes swarm all over the roads, the tuk-tuks are weaving through the traffic and then the cars and trucks just honk their horns, expecting all of the motorbikes and tuk-tuks to immediately get out of their way – if they don’t the car drivers lean on the horns. Makes for a rather noisy road trip.
You can see the first tuk-tuk we took, along with our driver and guide, Piseph. I also just had to show a picture of a local gas station. Yes indeed, the bottles on the stand contain gasoline. She gets the gas from a gas truck – a tuk-tuk with a flat bed attached. On it are 10-12 large plastic containers of gas. He pours the gas into her liter sized bottles – old soda bottles, wine bottles, anything she can find that has a cap. Then, when a motorcycle needs gas, they come up, use her funnel, and pour gas into the bike. They do have a few places where there are barrels with the old style glass pump on it, probably used for cars. In the rural areas of Cambodia, there are no commercial gas stations so these enterprising folks are filling a real need for the community.
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