Last month, while travelling in the remote Indian state of Mizoram I was surprised at how remote this place was yet so modern! Sounds contradictory, so I will need more than one post to prove that. First, there are hardly any fuel stations there and we saw none during the long drive through the length of the state on a major highway, which, by the way, is not too wide. There's hardly any traffic there and the majority of the vehicles we saw on the highway were not the usual internal-combustion engine powered vehicles, but something else. No, they were not horse-drawn chariots or bullock-carts.

The vehicle was so popular that every house seemed to own one and each was an eco-engineering masterpiece. Somehow it reminded me of the Flintstones era... ;)






Here it is. There is a seat for a driver in the front and space for goods or more people in the rear. The vehicle can be manoeuvred using the joystick like control in the front and it even as disc-brake like brakes! Downhill is easy, uphill requires an Man-power based engines. :)



Here's a vehicle fully loaded with firewood.



And here's a bunch of Mizo kids driving it



And another bunch of kids...