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What interesting or unusual things have you witnessed while driving on Thailand's roads?
5 people on one motorcycle, a man swinging in a hammock suspended in the back of a pickup truck... what interesting things have YOU witnessed while driving on Thailand roads?
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The community shares various fascinating and often humorous experiences witnessed while driving in Thailand, highlighting the unique transportation culture. Common themes include overcrowded motorcycles, unusual cargo being transported, families traveling together on scooters, and pets accompanying their owners on vehicles. The posts reflect both the surprising aspects of Thai road traffic and a sense of nostalgia for those familiar with the experiences.
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Kev **********
Guy on a motorcycle holding a bowl of soup in one hand negotiating speed bumps....did not spill a drop!
Amanda *********
Too many to mention but the best one was a dog on the back of a motorcycle standing on his hind legs front paws on the drivers shoulfers and a umbrella in his mouth crusing along
Amanda *********
In the dogs mouth
Greg *********
OPWas the umbrella in the dog's or the driver's mouth?
David ********
Yesterday i saw a woman on a scooter with a full labrador size dog standing on the footwell
Terry ********
Two young lovelies passing on a motorbike; driver and pillion both like clones staring down at their phones in their left hands.
Terry ********
A man on a motorbike pulling onto the busy main street in my town with a dog on a lead walking/trotting along beside him.
David *******
3 lanes turned into 5
Paul *******
Followed a lorry with an elephant standing in the back once
ED ******
A 20 meter long Python crossing the highway.
Bob ********
On one occasion I observed my Thai wife who was in the passenger seat... not on her phone.
Greg *********
OPNow THAT is unbelievable!! 😂
David ***********
A baby in the front basket in a old Honda wave .... this was about 15 yrs ago...
Rob ******
Kids swimming in the back of a very expensive SUV .
Marcos ***********
Only interesting if you are tourist. Interesting things are a standart around here 🤣
Ruth *******
@Marcos **********
exactly...throughout SE Asia. Most of my crazy pictures are actually from Cambodia and Vietnam. By the time I reached Thailand, my reaction was, "Oh, that again?"
Frédéric ******************
@Joe ********
This is in the Philippines, not Thailand.
Mitchell *******
Impressive!
Ruth *******
@Joe ********
Just another day in the neighborhood
Michael ********
13 is most i have seen on mororcycle sidecar combination (samlor)
David **********
There's a guy in my town who has a huge blue parrot that flies along following him when he rides his motorbike. Once it started circling me and trying to land on me as I was riding along.
Mitchell *******
When you first see something, it is "interesting". You go there enough, it becomes "normal". But I STILL get amazed at the impressive ingenuity and physics defying ways that I have seen trucks loaded.
And the monkey riding on his own platform on the side car still is one of my favourite memories so far.
And the monkey riding on his own platform on the side car still is one of my favourite memories so far.
Adam *******
Head squished like a watermelon
Brian *********
In 20 years I've seen it all even a convoy of disco buses on the way to pattaya from the airport, nothing surprises me in Thailand
Marcos ***********
@Brian ********
agree, tourist might feel overwhelmed though 🤣🤣
Julian ********
Where to start? I could fill a whole book with it. Mind boggling BS
Steve *******
That's not interesting, that's just the norm!
Cathy ******
Unfortunately no photo, but I've seen 3 kids 2 adults and a dog on a scooter, with the dog wearing the helmet lol
Matt *********
Lol...this is why every time i come with my wife we always go deep in issan.love visiting family can go back in time to when life was crazy and fun...love you thailand ...issan the most x🍺😘
Danielle ********
The multiple riders are the same in most Asian country rural areas, in Indonesia I saw multiple people all over on motorcycles… 5-7 is common
Frédéric ******************
@Danielle *******
But in Thailand, bike sharing is encouraged by the police... If you wear a helmet of course!
Oliver ********
Thousands of vehicles driving in the dark without their headlights on, hundreds of wrecks of horrific accidents, including an overturned tanker truck, a convoy of ten-wheelers driving on the wrong side of a motorway, and 3 dead bodies.
Niclas ***********
I seen more mass of people (workers from Myanmar) in a truck transporting them. We are talking all standing and every centimeters filled.
Shaun ************
I seen a baby in a hammock in the side car of a scooter about two weeks ago.
And yesterday I seen a lady driving a scooter with one hand on a windy mountain road while holding holding a tiny baby with the other hand 😮
And yesterday I seen a lady driving a scooter with one hand on a windy mountain road while holding holding a tiny baby with the other hand 😮
Kev **********
To many 🤣😂
Jim ********
A whole fields crop of sugarcane piled on top a rusty old Toyota pickup. So much weight on the axles that it left a trail of sparks behind it.
Ray *****
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