Friday, February 1, 2013 11:35:00 AM | by v-nihill
Overloaded!
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India
A man uses his cycle-rickshaw to take a truck body to a scrapyard in India.
Rupak De Chowdhuri/Reuters
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Sri Lanka
This load of lanterns more than triples the width of the motorbike they're on. The lanterns are decorations for a festival in Colombo, Sri Lanka.
Dinuka Liyanawatte/Reuters
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China
A man rides a tricycle loaded with chairs along a road in Beijing.
David Gray/Reuters
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Bangladesh
An overloaded passenger train travels through Bangladesh. Hundreds of Bangladeshi Muslims were heading home to celebrate Eid al-Fitr, a feast marking the end of Ramadan.
Pavel Rahman/Reuters
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Yalu River
An overloaded boat carefully navigates the Yalu River, which runs between North Korea and China.
Jacky Chen/Reuters
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India
A wife holds the phone so her husband can take a call while the family of five travels on a scooter in Udaipur, India.
Rex Features Ltd, 2012
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Vietnam
This tangle of ducks loaded onto a motorcycle are destined for a market near Hanoi, Vietnam.
Kham/Reuters
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Pakistan
Men use ropes to try to pull upright a tipped-over truck overloaded with wheat straw in Pakistan.
Mian Khursheed/Reuters
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Cambodia
Garment workers in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, ride a van home.
Chor Sokunthea/Reuters
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India
A man ferries six children home from school on his motorcycle in Uttar Pradesh, India.
Parivartan Sharma/Reuters
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Brazil
Commuters wait to board a train at rush hour at a metro station in Sao Paulo.
Yasuyoshi Chiba/AFP/Getty Images
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Bangladesh
Bangladeshi Muslims preparing to celebrate Eid-al-Adha crowd trains at Dhaka's airport rail station.
Rafiqur Rahman/Reuters
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India
A farmer's bicycle is barely visible within the bundles of straw he is carrying in Tripura, India.
Jayanta Dey/Reuters
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China
A vendor pulls a cart loaded with rattan chairs down a street in Shanghai.
Stringer/Reuters
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India
A man pulls a handcart loaded with barrels down a road in Mumbai, India.
Adeel Halim/Reuters
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China
This man's tricycle is almost entirely obscured by the various boxes he's carrying in Shenyang, China.
Sheng Li/Reuters
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India
This man can barely fit on his cart full of empty plastic jugs in Haryana, India.
Ajay Verma/Reuters
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Egypt
A truck piled high with bundles stands out in a traffic jam in Cairo.
Amr Abdallah Dalsh/Reuters
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Pakistan
A man transports empty water containers on a donkey cart in Pakistan.
Naseer Ahmed/Reuters
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Pakistan
A man driving a cart transports animal feed through the outskirts of Faisalabad, Pakistan.
Fayyaz Hussain/Reuters
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India
A man drives a taxi loaded with bicycles and milk containers through Allahabad, India.
Jitendra Prakash/Reuters
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Gaza
Palestinians ride in the trunk of a car.
Mohammed Salem/Reuters
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India
A man pushes an auto-rickshaw loaded with colorful plastic balls to sell at a market in New Delhi.
Parivartan Sharma/Reuters
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Pakistan
A family sits on top of a vehicle loaded with their belongings. They were looking for high ground and fleeing monsoon flooding in Karampur, Pakistan.
Akhtar Soomro/Reuters
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India
Commuters, including schoolchildren, travel on a crowded bus during morning rush hour in Uttar Pradesh, India.
Parivartan Sharma/Reuters
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Morocco
A Moroccan woman sells empty bottles for people arriving from and travelling to Morocco at the border with Melilla, Spain.
Jon Nazca/Reuters
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Bangladesh
A man is precariously perched atop the used cans of paints he's transporting in Dhaka, Bangladesh.
Rafiqur Rahman/Reuters
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China
A man yawns while riding on a donkey cart loaded with cardboard for recycling in Changzhi, China.
Stringer/Reuters
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India
A rickshaw operator transports sacks filled with plastic balls in Tripura, India.
Jayanta Dey/Reuters
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India
Six men ride a motorcycle home from a cricket match in Uttar Pradesh, India.
Parivartan Sharma/Reuters
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India
A potter transports his wares by bicycle to sell at a market in Allahabad, India.
Jitendra Prakash/Reuters
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Afghanistan
A couple of cars ride a bus in Maidan Shahr, Afghanistan.
Shamil Zhumatov/Reuters
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Pakistan
A family flees military conflict in Pakistan.
Akhtar/Reuters
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India
Hindus traveling to a festival in Mathura, India, travel on a crowded passenger train.
K. K. Arora/Reuters
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China
A woman carries styrofoam for recycling on her bicycle in a street in Shanghai.
Nir Elias/Reuters
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Kashmir
A man rides a camel loaded with straw in Jammu, Kashmir.
Mukesh Gupta/Reuters
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Nigerian
A man drives a carload of children in Nigeria.
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China
Passengers rush to board a subway train in Beijing.
STR/AFP/Getty Images
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China
A woman in Beijing takes her newly bought couch home.
David Gray/Reuters
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South Korea
A worker carries stacks of boxes on his back at the Namdaemun Market in Seoul.
Kim Hong-Ji/Reuters
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China
Commuters crowd a subway train in Beijing.
Andy Wong/AP Photo
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India
A ferry loaded with 3 vehicles and many more people barely stays above the water as it crosses the Brahmaputra River in Ghat, India.
Rex Features Ltd, 2012
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China
A farmer drives a horse-drawn cart loaded with dried stalks in Guye, China.
Jason Lee/Reuters
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Somalia
Somalians hitch a ride on a pick-up truck that supplies milk and other items to Mogadishu.
Omar Faruk/Reuters
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China
A young Chinese man — not the one driving — holds a painting while riding a motorcycle in Nanjing, China.
China Daily/Reuters
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China
An enterprising Chinese man pushes his bicycle loaded with recyclable plastic containers for resale to a nearby depot in Shanghai.