As we graduated from using chariot as a mode of transportation…

Vehicles arrived.

In this blog, let us turn back our heads to reminisce the different styles of our mode of transportation from the past to present.

The first style is the Auner Jeep.

 

This was popular among all, and up until now we can still see a jeep like this.

Second, the what we called “kubang kotse”.

This became a funny style of car to the Filipinos. As people tend to do the “pendong” to the other person. As they believed that if they see a kubang kotse they should do the pendong for them to be not kyphosis or what we called “kuba”.

And lastly, the different styles of today’s cars.

 

There are a lot of cars that have been created through the years, as the technology and innovations keep improving. Cars also keep evolving.

There are different types of cars: sports car, van, truck etc. with a different specialties.

Cars are one of the finest contribution of modernization to our life. We can say that cars are faster than the first mode of our transportation, the horses.

Why we should choose the latest one instead of vintage cars?

Because of the new innovations that they are putting to the latest one that keeps us safer than the old one.

We should always look to the details of the cars as they all have differences. They are different from engine, power, speed, and size. You can even now choose from manual to automatic cars.

 

But as the cars keep improving, the prices of it keeps increasing.

The better your car is, the more expensive it is.

Let’s talk about the transportation for public.

The most popular, Jeep.

A public transportation, that is the most cheapest fare.

The fastest yet crowded, LRT or MRT.

The fastest mode of transportation in the present are the LRT and MRT. But the problem is, there are a lot of people that are riding this transportation that leads to people jam or crowded. One of the problem that the Philippines are facing in terms of this transportation, is the breakdown of the bagons that cost a millions.

There are a lot of public transportation for the citizens such as: bus, taxi cabs, tricycle.

And the latest contribution of technology to the mode of transportation is the creation of applications through mobile phones that people can use to book a cab or car that will pick them up and drop them in their specified place. The applications that are popular are Grab and Uber but sadly, Uber has been banned to the Philippines.

One of the problems that the car users are dealing with is the inflation. The increasing prices of gasoline that leads to fare increasing of public transportation.

And one of the disadvantages that the cars have developed to our community especially to the Philippines is the TRAFFIC.

As we talked about transportation in water.

We have boat that we used from island to island.

When you will travel in a long distance on water, the mode of transportation is cruise.

And lastly, the transportation in air.

Back then, a cruise was the only transportation that can be use to travel to other countries or far places. But as the innovations approaches, this leads to the creation of airplanes and helicopters.

 

Back to the ancient time..

Horses were used as a means of transportation in a human society back to the 50,000 BC as they can move faster and much farther than humans; with horses, people became able to travel over land at a faster pace.

Horses were the first mode of transportation in a whole wide world. They became essential to the daily lives of the people back then as they put people from one place to another for them to do their task.

As we stepped to 1700 BC to 400 AD, the horses that were made as transportation have been evolved to a chariot. A chariot is a light vehicle that has a type of carriage with a two wheels driven by the charioteer. In the Philippines, we called it “kalesa”.

Chariot was also used as a transportation with a much valuable and contribution compare to the single horse without carriage.  In chariot, 3-4 persons can ride even they are carrying their things or baggage.

Besides from putting people from a place to another, chariot was also used to make transactions and trade with other communities, this was called “barter”.

The horse and wheel offered a great boost to man’s ability to move goods from place to place. A man can carry about 50 pounds, a horse can pack 200 pounds, but a horse and a wheeled vehicle can transport up to twice the horses own weight; consequently a 1,000 pound horse could move 2,000 pounds of cargo to penned animal or shops in the city. In chariot, people can bring loads of stuffs.

This was also used for war; the chariot became the principle battle strength of every military force. The chariot’s real strength on the battlefield was the raised firing platform it offered to archers – it was the original “artillery platform.”

The horse has had an impact on the world – everywhere it went and on every aspect of life. Horses changed history.

In today’s generation, industrialized countries have mostly replaced horses with cars and tractors. But some people who are living in rural or underdeveloped areas still use horses for manual labor and transportation.

In Manila, we often see a numerous “kalesa” in Intramuros. Yet, people still neglect and disregard to use it.

Horses in the present time are usually raised as pets, companions and athletes for horse races.

We will share the experiences of one of our blogger, Celine Ann Castro, from riding a horse.

“I already experienced horseback riding when we went to Tagaytay. I was a little bit nervous that time as it is my first time to try horseback riding that’s why one of the staff accompanied me from controlling the horse. It was fun, indeed. My second experience is when we went to Majayjay falls in Laguna. It was raining yet we still continue to go at falls. We trek a long distance just to get to the falls, it was hard and tiring. But after 30 minutes on staying there, our tour guide told us that we should leave as it was almost 6pm but we had a hard time on leaving as the water started to rise and the flow of water is dangerous to cross on, but we survived it. One-third of our journey on going back, I gave up on walking. By the way, it was a muddy and rocky single path. Both sides of the path are cliff. Luckily, our tour guide has two horses on the nipa hut that we stop over. They let me and my buddy to ride it for free. I was hesitant to ride it because of the path that we will take but I don’t have any choice as I’m so tired to walk. To my surprise, the horses are so intelligent. They knew which path they will go and to think that the path is so small, muddy and rocky they managed to control and surpass it without me from falling. Horses are intelligent and a hero.”

– Celine Ann Castro (blogger)