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River CrossingToday, I have one of my favorite all-time Jeepney pictures!

This photo was taken in North Cotabato Province.

The Jeepney is an old one, just look at the wear and tear, it has certainly seen it’s better days. On top of that, the jeepney is fully loaded.  Lots of people (even riding on top), and also lots of “stuff” loaded aboard.  And, additionally, the jeepney is crossing a river!  How cool is that?  Well, I like this picture a lot, and wonder what it would be like to hop aboard that jeep?  I bet it would be an adventure!  I wonder if a foreigner ever road that jeepney across the river? 😉  Maybe I could be the first!

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  1. Love it, and if you look real hard at the hood, there is someone there as well. Oh to be young and limber again. . . I’d be up on top with you . . . .Looks like fun, but I bet the driver worked his magic.

  15. Okay, here is my comment! That jeepney is not a passenger jeepney! It is one that is owned by a private user and uses it to transport goods. You can see that inside! Therefore all pasengers are on the roof as there is no space for them elsewhere! This is typical in the Philippines and in any country of the developing world, Asia, Africa and south America! So that jeepney was heading out to the fields or coming from there.

  16. Last week I had to go to the mountains to rescue one of my pineapple hauling trucks. I started over a bridge that wasn’t sfe enough to walk over and backed out. I had to make a river crossing like this in my pick-up.

  18. My youngest daughter after college she decided to come with me to the Philippines and one day we went to the beach and we hired the jeepney to take us to the beach. Will my daughter think that it would be fun if she ride on the top of the jeepney with all of her cousins. Will her cousins had to teach her how to duck low when there’s some threes approaching the way, so she won’t hit by the branches of the tree. I was terrified that she was up the roof of the jeepney she said it was so much fun but scary.she’s planning a trip to Philippines again this time with her husband and a daughter.

  21. I live in Australia , in the 60’s we , mum, dad and 5 kids ( 14 down to 2 ) travelled 1200 miles from Bundaberg to Shepparton ,and back , to do the fruit season in an Austin A40 pickup ,,, mum , dad and the 3 little kids in the front , my sister and I in the back with all the goods and chattels . And thought nothing of it,, how times have changed 🙂

  25. Bob – I rode one of those kinds of Jeeps going to visit my mother-in-law in Maragusan once. They took a side trip into a banana plantation to pick up cargo and had to cross a river much like the one that you have in the photo. I held my breath most of the way across and back that we would not be swept downstream. Hehehehe