Riding in a Jeepney is an experience. One where you're sucking in diesel fumes, sweating, cramped, jammed against strangers, and almost unable to see out to your surroundings. I've done it several times now and it will happen a lot more from here on. This country seems to run on Jeepneys, they're everywhere and they're all unique looking. They carry over 25 passengers and suspension surely cannot exist, it doesn't ever feel like it does. The engine pops and wheezes away at a camber of a two stroke, loud and smokey, it's also a manual. The number of customizations are seemingly endless, between decals of now defunct basketball teams and custom grills, they come different. Just the grills are great themselves. There are horizontal bars and slats, offside holes, die-cut metal images, and my favorite the false Mercedes emblem. They're not built by Mercedes, most of the ones you can see on the islands today are actually fairly new as they've been reproducing these vehicles on a back-yard level. It's truly impressive they still exist.
Sounds like a sight to see. Pictures?
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