Monday, February 15, 2010

Driving around in Sana'a,Yemen





People are being transported on top of vehicles in sometimes very funny or original ways. The small truck on the top right was a regular moving truck. I never transported my clients or helpers that way. Pick up trucks transport people in the back of the truck. This you see all the time, even small kids, or older people. I've seen some of those stacked with people. Just like the army truck, middle right.
Top left is a little banana truck.
The truck stacked with bags is extremely overloaded and was sagging all the way to the right. We had a hard time passing it, he kept on swerving over the road. We expected it to tip over at any time.
The little guy with the big white stone is Zareer, he is a construction guy working at the house right across of where we live. All he does is carry bags with sand, rocks, stone, etc, all the way up to the 2nd, 3rd and 4th floor, all day long. He has 11 kids, he works from daybreak until the sun sets, 6 days out of 7, and sometimes he is there on that seventh day too. He is always there to say 'hi' in the morning when we leave for school.
Also, notice all the billboards... Pepsi is here too!

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