THE STANDARD By
Philip Mwakio |
February 21st 2021 at 00:00:00 GMT +0300
Lofty tours and Safaris and Director of Valentin Investment Company Monika Solanki with her tour vehicle. [Omondi Onyango, Standard]
What comes to mind when you think about tour vehicles? For many, these are sturdy off-road monsters. The kind that approach any terrain with a ‘can-go’ attidude.
What if you turned up for a safari and the vehicle on offer is a vintage 1970’s jeep?
This is exactly what a Mombasa tour firm offers. Vintage tour vehicles manufactured in the 1970s and early 1980s.
Take the big boy of the fleet for instance. A 1984 Toyota Land Cruiser HJ60 aptly nicknamed Bushbaby. It’s storied ‘career’ includes more than a million kilometres and at one time being stolen in Mombasa in 1989 in the morning and being recovered in Moshi, Tanzania, in the late afternoon.
at this point, no word on a cause of the crash. as you can see a charter bus collided with one of these duck tour buses on the bus, 45 students and employees from north seattle college, confirming that they did have several dozen students and employees. we do not know who of the employees are injured or anything like that. again, taken to area hospitals. no word on a cause. the bridge is going to be shut down for many hours. amphibious tour vehicles have been involved in a few other crashes over the past year or so. this is something that will be looks at over at last 24 hours. these types of vehicles used, popular in seattle, washington, d.c., new york city has a number as well. amphibious vehicles used to take
phone to talk about the quick response here. first to you, this is just happening. we don t know why or beyond the fact the buss came together. but duck boat, you see them around. these were design ed as worl war ii combat craft because you can drive up on to the beach. they were ideal for any kind of marine invasion. since then they have found a lot of use as firefighters and things like that. but also a lot of times as tour vehicles because it s fun to be in a vehicle that can drive on the land and go right into the water. do you know if you buckle in on a duck boat? are there seat belts? ordinarily on most buss, there are. i don t know the answer in this particular case. on many buss, seat belts are often not required in vehicles like this this that have a lot of seats. jonathan, are you with me on