Some more sights of Santo Domingo
This is a Banyan tree.
They are seen all over Santo Domingo.
You can see one of the guaguas in the background that typically race
down the streets honking their horns weaving in and out of traffic and blatantly
cutting you off so as to get their passengers to their destinations as quickly
as possible. However the drivers are
always quite polite. If I put my arm out the window on my side and get their
attention, they will let us cut in front of them. This guagua is particularly
nice. Most of them are very banged up
from all the crashes they get into with their crazy driving.
A large tree growing through the electrical wires. Looks a bit dangerous to me.
The new president travels to and from his Presidential Palace to the goverment office where he works each day. The traffic cops blow their whistles and make all traffic move aside when he passes. This happens right in front of our building. One night beginning at 11:00 pm we heard all this noise. They were repaving the street eveidently for the president's comfortable and safe passage along the street. The street was previously full of bumps and pot holes. The workers were removing the old asphalt with this machine. It slices out a chunk and then grinds it up and spits it out through that shoot into a dump truck.
This is about 6:00 am and they were finishing up. They
literally worked all night long. Traffic began to flow soon after. Amazing how fast things can be repaired when
it is for the government official. hmmm
No comments:
Post a Comment