Dundee sent in this picture of a sweet bamboo jeep his father built in the Philippines:
The bamboo jeep (or kawayan jeep, as we call it in our native language) then was born from this culture. The jeep was created by my father supposedly for personal use only – my parents using it when going to work and dropping us, their children, when going to school. But since my father was a government employee (from the Department of Agriculture) and he had the obligation also to feature the products of our province, he used the bamboo jeep (as substitute to carabaos perhaps hehe) in the exhibits to attract people. I don't know if you're fascinated with a bamboo jeep but a lot of people here are really fascinated with it.The jeep (again instead of carabaos) became the ride also of high officials of the country in parades when they visited my province. If I remember it right, our current president right now rode on it when she was still a senator.
(Thanks, Dundee!)
