Travel PIP: Transportation

[GilliC]

It seems that the bi-weekly Travel PIP scheduled for June 2nd is experiencing delays of up to 24 hours. We apologize for the inconvenience. The new estimated poll departure is June 3rd, and the theme is

Transportation

How do you get around the world? Show us your photos of planes, trains, and automobiles or share some of your more adventurous forms of transport! Desert camel? Leaky canoe? Galactic space plane? Sometimes a great trip is the journey itself!

[alleinesein]

Funicular, Santiago, Chile





Airplane- airberlin at JFK



Rickshaws, Bandra/Linking Road, Mumbai



Squashed in the back of a van in Mumbai



Boats to Elephanta Island, Apollo Bunder, Mumbai

[christy082]

Airboat tour: Kissimmee, FL



Wild horse jeep tour: Corolla, NC



Boat Tour: Presque Isle, PA

   

Sail boat: San Franciso (Alcatraz in the background)



Segways: San Franciso, CA

  

Boat tour: San Francisco, CA



Cable car: San Francisco, CA



Kayaks: Monterey, CA

  

[mdgirl]

Our boat from the end of the Milford Track to Mitre Peak Lodge, Milford Sound, NZ



Cable car to Ngong Ping Village, Hong Kong



The most wonderful planes in the world!

[mpc]

Riding camels in the Sahara Desert (Morocco)





Bus from our week long camping tour through the Australia Outback



Snorkel Boat - Great Barrier Reef



VIP Lounge in the Madrid Airport. OK I know this is a stretch, but it's the only time my short lived United status actually got me anything.

[muppetinma]

Catamaran in Tulum, Mexico


Makeshift transportation in Ostional, Costa Rica, when the roads flooded.


Ultralight trike in Melbourne, Australia.

[jordylee]

I'll play. This was how jam packed our 6 hour bus ride was in Bolivia. Yes, the people standing in the aisles stood there the entire time. At one point, there was a child in my lap.

[GilliC]

Some of the ways I've traveled...

Our expedition ship in Antarctica:


Zodiacs for landings and glacier cruising:


Our trusty little 4WD exploring northeastern Iceland:


Shinkansen in Kyoto:


Dogsled in Tromsø:


Houseboat on the Kerala backwaters:


Alaska Rail en route to Denali:


Bamboo raft down the Yulong River near Yangshuo:


The VW Polo we drove through South Africa and Mozambique and the source of endless auto issues. Gobs of flat tires, dead battery, getting the car stuck in the sand, and finally getting it fixed at an industrial construction mechanic in the middle of nowhere for $5.

[Dusky]

Going to the Bahamas on a cruise ship.
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A view from a plane.  I'm not sure where we were at in this particular picture.
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Horse pulled carriages in New Orleans.
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[G22]

Caribbean Cruise

Ski lift in Montana

Gondola in Banff NP

The car we rented on our honeymoon to St Maarten that we dubbed "the ghetto smart car".

Catamaran Trip in St Maarten

Private plane to Daytona Beach

Motorboat trip in Dawson City, Yukon Territory, CA

Cruise to Glacier Bay and Inside Passage Alaska

[daisypaloma]

"No Hate Me" - Kaneohe, Hawaii



Sunset on a plane ride



Tattered BMW on the road on our walk around Grand Turk



Costa Rica



Cabo



'Rickshaw' ride, Fort Lauderdale

[daisypaloma]

Car Show, Beverly Hills, CA


View of our cruise ship, Half Moon Cay, Bahamas

[katfco]

Tuk-tuk, Vietnam
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Sleeper train, all over China

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Rowboat: Mekong delta
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[katfco]

Bonus: Camel in Kashgar, Xinjiang Privince, China
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Horse cart at Everest Base Camp, Tibet

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[CloudBee]

Helicopter into the Grand Canyon:


An ice axe and ropes got up me a glacier in Iceland


A camel brought us out to visit remote pyramids outside of Sakkara in Egypt (near Giza)


We then got off of the camels and hopped into SUVs and did some wheelies through the sand dunes on our way back to Sakkara.  (See the pyramids in the background. It was awesome to see some that weren't tourist hubs!)


A boat took us from Raiatea to Taha'a in French Polynesia (South Pacific)


An airboat took us through the mangroves/jungle in Belize to see alligators and manatees:


We took the bullet train from Tokyo out to Mount Fuji

[melmo1122]

Convertible mustang Kauai




Overnight Red Arrow train from St Petersburg to Moscow




Boat in St Petersburg



Rush hour traffic Las Vegas





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[seabitch]

I love your transportation photos.  Old Forge, NY area

[sicilygirl]

Train in Milan





My 6'5" husband getting into the Fiat we rented in Florence

[Deleted]

katfco that sleeper train in China has zero privacy! Were you able to get any shut eye on it?

[katfco]

Jun 4, 2014 15:45:30 GMT -5 @missy1 said:

katfco that sleeper train in China has zero privacy! Were you able to get any shut eye on it?

Oh yeah, except for the one we slept in that didn't have air conditioning. That was a rough night. 

As for privacy, for the most part, people keep to themselves and everyone sleeps in their clothes. Of course, being foreigners, we got our share of stares. When we were on the train to Kashgar (China's westernmost city), for a couple of hours, several Chinese people just sat on the bunk across from us (the bunks faced each other and were about 2 feet apart) and stared at us and talked about us. We were a bit of an oddity. 

[Susie]

Normally I'd dispense with the "plane wing selfie" but the rainbow as we were heading for Ireland was cute.
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Shipwreck of the Plassy on the Aran Islands, Ireland


Icelandic horses:


Self explanatory:


The promised snowmobiles:


Driving from the Grand Canyon back to Phoenix, AZ:


Vernazza, Italy:


Corniglia, Italy train station:


Piazza della Signoria — Florence, Italy


Venice, Italy:




Signage in Doolin, Ireland:


Our Hyundai i10, which we succeeded in not driving over a cliff:




Volendam docked in Skagway, AK


White Pass RR from Skagway, AK


Helicopter view of the terminus of Mendenhall Glacier (we landed & went ice climbing on it)

[mdgirl]

One more! Kayaking in Venice.

[Alyssa]

Traveling between Vientiane and Vang Vieng, Laos.





More Laos (Vientiane)



Angkor Wat Cambodia



Hanoi, Vietnam

[wise_rita]

mpc can you tell me about the outback camping tour? I'm interested!

[wise_rita]

Our bags being hauled across the border from Thailand to Cambodia:


Train that takes you from Cairns to Kuranda in Queensland, Australia:

Ahem, aMrsin09

Funicular in Budapest, Hungary:



Lady using her head to carry stuff in Cairo, Egypt:

[aMrsin09]

Jun 7, 2014 1:52:52 GMT -5 wise_rita said:

Train that takes you from Cairns to Kuranda in Queensland, Australia:

Ahem, aMrsin09




I suppose it's sad that we've NEVER taken the train.  Heck, it's never even crossed our minds to take the train.

[scout8]

This was a hard one!

Boat we took to get to Ometepe in Nicaragua. It doesn't look very safe!


All the buses we took in Nicaragua were old American school buses.


Chiang Mai, Thailand


Boat we took on the Nam Ou river in Laos


Small plane we took to see the Nazca lines in Peru. The plane would bank right and then left over each of the "pictures" so that we could all see them. I had horrible motion sickness and spent the entire time trying not to throw up!

[scout8]

All these photos make me want to go on vacation RIGHT NOW!

[wise_rita]

Jun 7, 2014 7:41:25 GMT -5 scout8 said:

All these photos make me want to go on vacation RIGHT NOW!

TRUTH.

aMrsin09, don't worry about never having taken the train.  It's slow and filled with old tourists.  If you've got a car that's definitely the way to get to Kuranda!  I do think the cable car thingy is worth it, though.  That's really cool.

[mpc]

Jun 7, 2014 1:38:12 GMT -5 wise_rita said:

mpc can you tell me about the outback camping tour? I'm interested!

Sure! We went with Groovy Grape Tours www.groovygrape.com.au/. When I say camping, I mean that every night except for one we were sleeping outside (no tents). The one night in Cooper Pedy we stayed in a bunks underground. We originally signed up for the 7 day adelaide to alice springs tour, but they contacted us a few days prior and said there weren't enough people so they were switching us to the 6 day. That turned out to be ok - we just spent an extra day drinking wine in the barrossa valley.

There were about 20 of us on the bus, and one driver/tour guide. All the food was provided, but everyone was expected to help cook and clean and collect firewood. I think there was only one night (cooper pedy again) that we ate in a restaurant. The rest of the food we prepared every day and it was really quite good and there was always plenty to eat. We did a bunch of hikes, most were a couple hours long. We hiked Uluru (around, not up), Kata Tjuta, Kings Canyon, and one other gorge.

Overall, I thought it was a fantastic trip. We got to see a bunch and it's cool to be able to say I slept out under the stars in the outback. We felt like the oldies on our particular tour. Most of the others were 20 year old German girls. Our guide said that was pretty random and usually there's more diversity. My husband enjoyed it haha. There are other tour companies with fancier buses and hotel rooms and higher prices, but we were looking for more of an adventure.

if you have any other specific questions, just ask!