NIKKAがネグロス島へ出かけた。
目的はお母さんのお墓をつくるため。
彼女は一人旅をしたことがない。
マニラからネグロスのバコロド空港までは、国内線だ。
チケットを予約すればよい。
そして飛行機は真夜中に到着した。
地元から親戚達がトライシクルで向かえに来るという。
バコロド空港からバランガイまでの距離をGooglemapで測定した。
それは約70km弱。
時速20kmも出ないトライシクルで3時間半かかる。
真夜中の国道を走り、普通の田舎町へ行く。
私のiPhoneに途中経過がメッセンジャーで届く。
実家から迎えに来たトライシクルに遭遇できた。
「お腹がすいた、何も食べていない」。
空港の待ち時間で食べなかったのか?。
やがて途中の食堂で夕飯を食べている画像が送られてきた。
屈強な顔つきがトライシクルの運転手だ。
途中の道には、泥棒が出るかもしれない。
こういうときは頼もしい顔つきである。
真夜中の公共交通機関の貧弱なフィリピンの話である。
NIKKA went to Negros Island.
Her purpose is to make her mother's grave.
She has never traveled alone.
Domestic flights from Manila to Bacolod Airport in Negros.
All you have to do is book a ticket.
And the plane arrived at midnight.
It is said that a tricycle is coming from the local area.
I measured the distance from Bacolod Airport to Barangay with Googlemap.
It's less than 70km.
It takes three and a half hours on a tricycle that doesn't go faster than 20km/h.
I run on the national highway at midnight and go to an ordinary country town.
The progress is sent to my iPhone by messenger.
I was able to meet a tricycle that came to pick me up from my parents' house.
"I'm hungry, I haven't eaten anything."
Didn't you eat while waiting at the airport?
Before long, I was sent a picture of me eating dinner at a cafeteria on the way.
The tough look on his face is that of a tricycle driver.
There may be thieves along the way.
At times like this, he has a dependable look on his face.
This is the story of the Philippines, which has poor public transportation in the middle of the night.
Her purpose is to make her mother's grave.
She has never traveled alone.
Domestic flights from Manila to Bacolod Airport in Negros.
All you have to do is book a ticket.
And the plane arrived at midnight.
It is said that a tricycle is coming from the local area.
I measured the distance from Bacolod Airport to Barangay with Googlemap.
It's less than 70km.
It takes three and a half hours on a tricycle that doesn't go faster than 20km/h.
I run on the national highway at midnight and go to an ordinary country town.
The progress is sent to my iPhone by messenger.
I was able to meet a tricycle that came to pick me up from my parents' house.
"I'm hungry, I haven't eaten anything."
Didn't you eat while waiting at the airport?
Before long, I was sent a picture of me eating dinner at a cafeteria on the way.
The tough look on his face is that of a tricycle driver.
There may be thieves along the way.
At times like this, he has a dependable look on his face.
This is the story of the Philippines, which has poor public transportation in the middle of the night.
