Tap Tap
Tap taps are gaily painted buses or pick-up trucks that serve as share taxis in Haiti. They may also be referred to as camionette.
Literally meaning "quick quick", these vehicles for hire are privately owned and beautifully decorated. They follow fixed routes, won't leave until filled with passengers, and riders can disembark at any point in the journey.
Visitors to Haiti are warned by the US and Canadian governments not to travel in tap taps, as doing so is unsafe.
Read more about Tap Tap: Decoration, Travel Warnings
Famous quotes containing the word tap:
“Anna who was mad,
I have a knife in my armpit.
When I stand on tiptoe I tap out messages.”
—Anne Sexton (1928–1974)
“A book is like a man—clever and dull, brave and cowardly, beautiful and ugly. For every flowering thought there will be a page like a wet and mangy mongrel, and for every looping flight a tap on the wing and a reminder that wax cannot hold the feathers firm too near the sun.”
—John Steinbeck (1902–1968)