Transportation in Cuba
Photos from 1998
With the "Special Situation", the US trade embargo, and the end of the Soviet Union's subsidy, creative ways of providing island transportation have had to be devised.
"The Camel"
because of an acute shortage of buses, trucks are fitted with these passenger carriers, called Camels
Bikes and Motorcycles
bike with side car
repair shop
family vehicle
flower market
Automobiles
a collection of old American (pre-revolution) cars
some imports from Europe
horse taxixi
horse taxi and bikes
the truck carrier to take people to work
the rural scene
on horseback
riders and workers
material moved by pack train
discussing the project
the water donkey
with oxen
or the Russian truck
from Pre-Revolutionary times
the railroad