Today’s Silly Travel Photo is one that I took recently on my month long Travel Blogging trip to Indonesia (you can view the feed of this trip here).
It’s the Spanner Car Door Handle!
This photo was taken inside an Angkot, a mini-van form of public transport in the southern Sumatran city of Palembang. The door in question was the front passenger seat door.
When you live in third world countries, people have to improvise in any way they can, and this is an example. You make use of what you have. Sometimes, people cannot afford to buy spare parts.
But the Spanner Car Door Handle is nothing when compared to other automobile improvisations.
I’ve heard of stories in South Africa where mini-bus taxi drivers attach two plumbing wrenches to the steering column when there is a fault with the steering wheel. I didn’t have the scary opportunity of capturing a wrench steering wheel for a Silly Travel Photo, but if you have, send it in!
So there you go – this weeks’ Silly Travel Photo has some sort of meaning!
You can see more Silly Travel Photos at Weird World (Bradt Guides).
The Spanner Car Door Handle is just one way improvisation can be used to fix your car.
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February 10th, 2010 at 6:30 pm
ha you have a great journey.
Btw, it seems like your RSS feed doesn’t work in my browser (I’m using google chrome)..can you fix it?
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March 6th, 2010 at 5:29 am
I like the quality of the photo. It seemed that you had enjoyed you travel.
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March 11th, 2010 at 3:45 pm
Yeah, the quality is great.
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March 20th, 2010 at 4:32 am
Great photo! Not sure I’d feel particularly safe in that car but maybe they don’t have the same health and saftey standards over there
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June 6th, 2010 at 4:22 pm
I asked for a wench, not a wrench!
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August 16th, 2010 at 11:17 pm
Yep it certainly passes the test for sillyness!
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