Crazy Taxi In a previous blog I commented on the ´abstract´ driving style of the Cambodians. After our visit to Lima, I realise this is nothing... Take the 8 million inhabitants, a complete lack of road rules and introduce them to the motor car. What you have is chaos. Driving is clearly a contact sport here, you only have to look at a local taxi to realise this; cracked windscreens, missing bumpers, smashed lights, scrapes, dents even missing doors! The driving approach is as follows: the horn is an effective means to alert someone to your presence, but far more effective is to just crash into them. Taking a cab in Lima is an adrenelin sport in itself, you find yourself holding on for dear life as the driver pulls out of a junction, they dont
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