WHATEVER floats, your boat.
At a highway chaikhana (rest stop) south of Bishkek, Kyrgyzstan, a Lada has been made into a snow plough.
While more comfortable buses may have come to Laos in the decades since I took this, in many places, the old rattlers like this would remain the lifeblood of the roads.
A fishing boat in the southern Thai town of Narathiwat.
Mini buses zip here, there and everywhere in Sabah, Malaysia, from this terminal in Kota Kinabalu. Quick, cheap, uncomfortable, convenient, the ubiquitous transport is deadly in an accident, with no way out.
Large multi-wagon trucks run up and down central Australia. Known as "road trains" they can be up to 100m long. Give them a wide berth, and if passing, give yourself plenty of space.
The Australian Solar Car Challenge runs down the Stuart Highway from Darwin to Adelaide every two years.
A small fishing boat on the vast Lake Victoria, Tanzania.
Mongolia was the first place I saw these strange hybrids, the electrfied bus. Think it is an eastern European thing.
Another creaking, belching Soviet bus pauses for breath on a highway in Mongolia.
A train from the Chinese border heads to the Mongolian capital of Ulan Bator. Not the Trans-siberian, which goes through.....Siberia!
A pair of Russian Urals with sidecars, being used by Mongolian fur traders. Favoured by police and military, Urals are strong and reliable (by Russian standards) and actually available in the west.
On Africa's massive Lake Victoria, buses and cars use ferry for a shortcut.
A loaded Lada tackles the streets of Uzbekistan outside the Margilon bazaar.
Leaving the fantastic Margilon bazaar in Uzbekistan. I guess if the horse gets tired, he can change places.
Taiwan has a really good rail network, from local clunkers to top of the line high speed inter-city Hello Kitty trains.
More scooter innovation from Taiwan.
Totally safe. What could go wrong? Taiwan.
A wagon with some wheels and an engine. Hopefully for Gran's sake it has brakes too. Seen up in the hills of Taiwan.
Old guy has found a partcularly dangerous way to get arounnd Taiwan's Sun Moon Lake.
How's that for a car stereo?? Thailand's Songkran water festival, up in the north-west.
On the Thai-Cambodian border, Aranyaprathet grew in the 80s and 90s with the refugee and smuggling industries. So did their tuk-tuks, which are longer and fitted with Toyota engines!
A village-built truck passes Nong Bua Rai, an ancient Khmer hospital on the Angkor road through modern day Thailand.
A grab bag of Asian vehicles in Amritsar, India: a Coca-Cola truck, a fruit cart, a selection of motorcycles, a three-wheeler/tuk-tuk, and a cycle-rickshaw.
The scooter has revolutionized life in developing countries, especially Asia. Nothing unusual to see 4 or more on one. These two are doused in coloured powder for India's Holi Festival.
No idea what this was, but long, long ago, it was a well to do Namibian farmer's workhorse, now sitting in the town of Solitaire.
The safari vehicle. Usually a Land Cruiser or Land Rover, two or three benches in the open-topped back, and hopefully a knowledgable guide in the front.
SWAPO fought a long, bitter war to remove the South Africans from Namibia. This armoured train engine was part of that campaign.
On the winding roads down from Cebu's Osmena Peak, an elongated motorcycle exhibits Filipino road safety.
Filipinos repurposed abandoned US Army jeeps for passenger transport, extending the wheel base, and fitting benches along the side. There's always room for one more.
The side car wagon is a staple of Asian farm and market work, seen here in the Philippines. I once worked in a warehouse in Australia where one was used!
Renovator's dream? Project? Philippines.
A tropical downpour in Bohol, Philippines, stopped me for an hour or so, but if you gotta go....
Somewhere between a jeepney and a sidecar and a tuk-tuk, again, waiting for a break in the rain.
Filipinos love their karaoke, and usually they sing pretty well. Day-time, nighttime, and on these river cruise buffet boats, even lunch time is singing time. On the pretty island of Bohol.
Sound advice from a Filipino sidecar. Chunky and angular, these ubiquitous taxis can squeeze three westerners in, somehow.
Decked out with all the latest bell & whistles, a jeepney plies the streets of Cebu City, Philippines.
US Army jeeps abandoned after WWII were converted for public transport. This shot in the market area shows just how long jeepneys can be these days.
A campervan with a scooter for going to the shops. I actually saw one of these monsters towing a dual-cab ute.