Traffic

The traffic in Haiti is naturally also a local variation of what traffic should be like. At a first glance, it’s clear that nearly all of the cars are 4x4. There are very few “family” cars out there and nothing similar to my beloved Yaris. The roads that do exist (and at many places there is a path, but it’s not paved) are so full with holes that driving is a very good test to ones ability to estimate the exact size of the car and the depth of a hole (which I don’t understand how they do, since many times the holes are full with rain and it’s dark).


To make us feel at home there was “holiday traffic” on Rosh-Hashana Eve. It took us 3 hours for a 20 minute drive. We did encounter one policeman that was trying to untangle the mess. He did so by going to each car and telling it to squeeze a few more centimeters closer to the car before it.