Kathmandu Rickshaws

Rickshaws are still in daily use in Kathmandu, Nepal and they can be seen plying the many narrow, rough streets of the city carrying people and goods. They are usually brightly painted and sometimes decorated with flowers and garlands.

Vintage Red

In New Zealand you get the opportunity to see many old vehicles still being used and many of them are kept in tip-top condition. This school bus, named Vintage Red, is used in the small town of Picton at the north end of the South Island.

Train Travel in Japan

Japan Train Sounds 3 by HighlanderImages

Travelling by train in Japan is a joy. It's so organized, clean and efficient with the trains running usually to the second. This is a typical train station with large information boards detailing all the train arrival and departure times. It can be somewhat intimidating though given that most of the signage is in Japanese characters.

Shinkansen Bullet Train

Shinkansen train, Japan by HighlanderImages

The Shinkansen bullet train in Japan is now many years old but is still an impressive piece of technology and continues to provide an impressive fast service between major cities in Japan. Starting with the Tōkaidō Shinkansen in 1964, the network has expanded to currently consist of 2,387.7 km (1,483.6 mi) of lines with maximum speeds of 240–300 km/h (149–186 mph), 283.5 km (176.2 mi) of Mini-shinkansen with a maximum speed of 130 km/h (81 mph) and 10.3 km (6.4 mi) of spur lines with Shinkansen services. The network presently links most major cities on the islands of Honshu and Kyushu, with construction of a link to the northern island of Hokkaido underway and plans to increase speeds on the Tōhoku Shinkansen up to 320 km/h (199 mph). Test runs have reached 443 km/h (275 mph) for conventional rail in 1996, and up to a world record 581 km/h (361 mph) for maglev trainsets in 2003.

Dutch Tricycle

This lady was transporting her children back from school in a neat little tricycle which seemed a perfect way to get around the city; environmentally friendly and offering a little exercise for the person cycling.

Big Yellow Taxi

Yellow cabs in New york City are a common site and they always remind me of that famous song by Joni Mitchell, Big Yellow Taxi.

They paved paradise and put up a parking lot 
With a pink hotel, a boutique, and a swinging hot spot 
Don't it always seem to go 
That you don't know what you've got till it's gone 
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot 

They took all the trees and put 'em in a tree museum 
And then they charged all the people twenty-five bucks just to see 'em 
Don't it always seem to go 
That you don't know what you've got till it's gone 
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot 

Hey farmer, farmer, put away your DDT now 
Give me spots on my apples but leave me the birds and the bees, please 
Don't it always seem to go 
That you don't know what you've got till it's gone 
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot 

Don't it always seem to go 
That you don't know what you've got till it's gone 
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot 

Late last night I heard the screen door slam 
And a big yellow taxi carried off my old man 
Don't it always seem to go 
That you don't know what you've got till it's gone 
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot 

Don't it always seem to go 
That you don't know what you've got till it's gone 
They paved paradise and put up a parking lot 

Text & Musik: Joni Mitchell 
(c) 1970 Siquomb Publishing Corp. (BMI) 

Bicycle Bells

Bicycles are a common form of transport to get around Amsterdam and everywhere you go you will see stacks of bicycles parked. This row of bicycles had a colourful array of bells.

Meet Me Under The Clock

This is the famous clock that sits above the information booth at Grand Central terminal, New York. The clock has 4 convex faces made from high quality opal and it is estimated the clock is worth between $10 million to $20 million. The small point on top of the clock is actually a compass which is aligned to true north and is 100% accurate. The clock has appeared in many famous movies and has become a classic meeting point.

i-Cycle

Everyone seems to cycle in Amsterdam and it's fun to watch all the different styles of bikes as well at the many styles of cycling. This lady was more intent on her phone than the business of cycling or perhaps she was just lining up the next mp3 playlist to give her inspiration for the ride home.

KL Railway Station

Kuala Lumpur Railway Station (Malay: Stesen Keretapi Kuala Lumpur) is a train station located in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Completed in 1910 to replace an older station on the same site, the station was Kuala Lumpur's railway hub in the city for the Federated Malay States Railways and Malayan Railway (Malay:Keretapi Tanah Melayu), before Kuala Lumpur Sentral assumed much of its role in 2001. The station is notable for it architecture, adopting a mixture of Eastern and Western designs.

The station is located along a road named Jalan Sultan Hishamuddin, previously known as Victory Avenue, which in turn was part of Damansara Road. The station is located closely to the similarly designed Railway Administration Building, as well as the National Mosque and Dayabumi Complex. The Pasar Seni LRT station is located 400 metres away, across the Klang River.

Colombo Tuk Tuk

The tuk-tuks of Colombo, Sri Lanka are very bright and colourful as well as providing a convenient and cheap way to get around the city.
Every year they have the  Lanka Challenge where intrepid foreigners drive these local tuk tuks over the island of Sri Lanka - this has got to be the best way to see Sri Lanka. The Lanka Challenge is by no means an easy affair; contestants will embark on a true test of character, resourcefulness, endurance and navigational stupidity. It is a real maker of men and a genuine quest for wonder woman. This usually requires you to patch up your three-wheel mean machine in the most extreme of weather conditions, marooned in the most remote of locations and wearing the most ludicrous of outfits.   

Kyoto Station

Kyoto Station is the most important transportation hub in Kyoto, Japan. It has Japan's second-largest train station building (after Nagoya Station) and is one of the country's largest buildings, incorporating a shopping mall, hotel, movie theater, Isetan department store, and several local government facilities under one 15-story roof. It also housed the Kyoto City Air Terminal until August 31, 2002.

Tri-Wheeler Power in Vietnam

Two wheels are definitely king in Vietnam but three wheelers are not far behind as having some street cred as you can see from these images hot in Ho Chi Minh.

Rickshaw

Rickshaws (or rickshas) are a mode of human-powered transport: a runner draws a two-wheeled cart which seats one or two persons. The word rickshaw came from Asia where they were mainly used as means of transportation for the social elite. In recent times the use of rickshaws has been discouraged or outlawed in many countries due to numerous accidents or concern for the welfare of rickshaw workers.

Runner-pulled rickshaws have mainly been replaced by cycle rickshaws and auto rickshaws. The term "rickshaw" is today commonly used for those vehicles as well.

The word "rickshaw" originates from the Japanese word jinrikisha (人力車, 人 jin = human, 力 riki = power or force, 車 sha = vehicle), which literally means "human-powered vehicle".

Rickshaws were first seen in Japan around 1868, at the beginning of the Meiji Restoration. They soon became a popular mode of transportation, since they were faster than the previously used palanquins (and human labor was considerably cheaper than using horses).

Prague Tram

Early morning commuters on a tram in central Prague, Czech Republic. Using a slow shutter speed (1/10s, f2.8, ISO 640) and panning the camera created this image with background blurring and a sense of motion.