A Tap-Tap Experience: Part 1



This is what a tap-tap looks like.
 I'm in the tap-tap behind this one and we are just
coming out of the river we crossed.



This is a little video clip of what it is like to be on
 a tap-tap ride, driving on the mountain roads in Haiti. 



Another way of transportation I experienced while in Haiti was a tap-tap. A tap-tap is a big truck that has benches along the edge of the bed that you sit on, you tap it if you need to stop, and you tap it when you are ready to go, tap-tap. These trucks would also go pretty fast, which got interesting when we would be driving through the forests and have to hang on and watch out for low-hanging branches at the same time. We would ride the tap-taps when we would go to visit other nearby villages. One day, I had a very interesting experience during a tap-tap ride. It was on a very rainy, hour long tap-tap ride back to the mission after visiting a village. Let me tell you, sitting in the back of a tap-tap for an hour in the rain was an interesting experience in itself! Because of all the rain, one of the tap-taps had trouble getting up a hill. It was, of course, the one I was on. When we went to go up the hill, our tires started spinning about half way up. Our driver backed the tap-tap down the hill and tried zooming back up a couple more times. After that not working, we asked the driver (through a translator) if we should get off to make it easier for the tap-tap to make it up the hill and then just get back in when it made it to the top. The driver told us to stay on the tap-tap. To be continued….