I couldn’t make it without you guys,’ Yuji ‘Gump’ Suzuki tells supporters after his six-month rickshaw pull from Nairobi to ...
But what came into view was a rickshaw. Instead of being pulled by a horse, it was being pulled by a man—usually a skinny, bedraggled, barefoot man who didn’t look quite up to the task.
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His latest quest started in the Kenyan capital in July and took him through Tanzania, Zambia, Botswana and Namibia.
The tuk-tuk is a motorised version of the traditional pulled rickshaw or cycle rickshaw. They are popular in countries with tropical climates with the biggest manufacturer based in India.
A 34-year-old Japanese man on Sunday arrived in Cape Town to end a more than 6,000km journey from Kenya to South Africa.