Video: Multicolored taxis on the streets of Bangkok
2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55
Yellow Taxi has long become a "calling card" of New York, and without black taxis it is difficult to imagine the streets of London. Few people know that in Bangkok cars "on call" are also easy to distinguish from the general flow of cars. True, the Thai people (unlike the Americans and the British) prefer a variety of colors, so here cars are painted in all the colors of the rainbow. Pink, orange, purple, green and yellow cars scurry about the city, delivering customers.
The color of the car in Bangkok is of great importance. For example, monochromatic taxis in bright green, bright blue, red, orange, yellow, cyan, pink, magenta, purple and brown indicate that these cars belong to the same private car rental company. The owners choose yellow-green colors for their own cars, if they decide to take up a taxi, red-blue - if they drive a rented car, cars belonging to the official carrier company are painted in yellow-orange colors.
Yellow-green taxis are considered to be the best, because drivers closely monitor their own cars, drive more accurately and keep the cabin in order. Like taxis, buses are also painted in bright colors. Their colors indicate the route, fare and the presence of an air conditioner in the cabin. To make sense of all this, tourists are best served by using the public transport map.
Note that the Thai people have a special attitude to flowers: they associate each day of the week with a certain color. They start the week on Red Sunday, followed by Yellow Monday, Pink Tuesday, Green Wednesday, Orange Thursday, Blue Friday, and Purple Saturday. It is believed that each of these flowers brings good luck if you remember about it on the right day.
The color of clothing also plays an important role in the life of society. Until recently, people could be seen on the streets wearing yellow T-shirts on Mondays and blue shirts on Fridays. In this original way, they paid tribute to the king and queen, who were born, respectively, on these days of the week. The environment has only changed since the color yellow became associated with the People's Democratic Alliance, an opposition political movement. In contrast to the "yellow" rallies, "red" people sometimes appear on the streets of Bangkok. Those who wish to remain apolitical traditionally wear pink clothes.
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