Flew Korean Air from San Diego to Manila and changed planes at Incheon International Airport in South Korea.
Gate area at Incheon International Airport, South Korea.
In
landing pattern to Manila Ninoy Aquino International Airport and viewing
a large slum area near the airport.
Closer picture of slum area from jet. You can notice that slums are mixed in and next to public, private and commerical buildings.
Taxing
to our gate at the Ninoy Aquino International
Airport.
Leaving the airport and seeing the first street sign which told me I was in another country.
Manila has heavy traffic.
A typical site anywhere in the Philippines, from small towns to Manila. When traffic stops or slows down, people walk between vehicles and sell items from cold bottled water, windshield cleaning cloths, snacks and more.
Filipino traffic.
If you know the Filipino fast food restaurant, “Jollibee” you can just make out their signage in the upper left-hand corner of this photo.
Seeing a “Jeepney” for the first time. They are everywhere.
Seeing a “tricycle” for the first time. A “tricycle” is a motorcycle with a sidecar attached. All the motorcycle tricycles that I saw, which carry paying passengers, have a roof over the driver and a roof over the sidecar. Tricycles are everywhere.
Notice the flip-flops. And helmets are not required.
Might look like a typical day at an intersection, right?
Notice that the red Isuzu truck is in the far left-hand lane of the oncoming traffic. Also, note, the traffic light has just turned green, see motocycle starting out.
Now notice, that since it's safe(!), oncoming vehicles are passing traffic (in a city area), crossing the solid white middle-line into the other two opposite lanes of traffic. These passing vehicles will continue and make a left hand turn (as long as it's still safe!) at this intersection.
There are three lanes of traffic going forward at this particular intersection.