Usually when we pass an elephant I'm on the wrong side to get a photo - but today I tried anyway and managed to get this glimpse:

The rickshaws we take are auto-rickshaws (the style called Tuk Tuks in Bangkok) I've seen the occasional cycle rickshaw but they seem more likely to be transporting goods than passengers.
Here are a few more views from today's ride, to try and give an idea of the traffic mayhem. Some of the roads are divided (many under constuction and incredibly dusty) and others very narrow with deep running drains on both sides, buses, trucks of all sizes, tractors, motorbikes, scooters, bicycles, rickshaws, vegetable carts, cows, dogs, pigs and pedestrians all jostling for space. There's constant beeping and blasting of horns to no avail. No-one gets out of the way of on-coming traffic until the last possible moment, and sometimes not even then. Drivers often have to head out onto the wrong side of the road to pass cows or people who have simply stopped their bikes in the middle for a chat! All this without seat belts, and often using their mobile while they drive/ride! Sometimes it seems like a good-humoured game of courage - I haven't seen any road rage!








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