Videos tagged with "horse"

Hiking [00:21]

Tags: hiking, walking, running, jojjing, jumping, filming, camera, movie, film, nature, woods, trees, bridge, Russia, China, Kazakhstan, Rhode, Island, Idaho, Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, South, Dakota, New, Jersey, shore, beach, dirt, horses, sheep, cows, water

Rickshaw ride / cam in Dhaka, Bangladesh - Road Junkie Snippets 46 [01:31]
Rickshaws (or rickshas) are a mode of human-powered transport: a runner draws a two-wheeled cart which seats one or two persons. Rickshaws are commonly made with bamboo. The word rickshaw came from Asia where they were mainly used as means of transportation for the social elite. In recent times the use of rickshaws has been discouraged or outlawed in many countries due to concern for the welfare of rickshaw workers.[1] Runner-pulled rickshaws have mainly been replaced by cycle rickshaws and auto rickshaws. The term "rickshaw" is today commonly used for those vehicles as well. The word "rickshaw" originates from the Japanese word jinrikisha (人力車, 人jin = human, 力riki = power or force, 車sha = vehicle), which literally means "human-powered vehicle". Rickshaws were first seen in Japan around 1868, at the beginning of the Meiji Restoration. They soon became a popular mode of transportation, since they were faster than the previously used palanquins (and human labor was considerably cheaper than using horses). The identity of the inventor remains uncertain. Some American sources give the American blacksmith Albert Tolman, who is said to have invented the rickshaw around 1848 in Worcester, Massachusetts for a missionary; others claim that Jonathan Scobie (or Jonathan Goble), an American missionary to Japan, invented the rickshaw around 1869 to transport his invalid wife through the streets of Yokohama.[3] Other scholars think it is Izumi Yosuke, a restaurateur in Tokyo in ...

My Travels [05:50]
Over one year I had traveled to Mongolia and Bangladesh with world vision, and backpacked around Peru. Here of some of my photos. Music is by the cinematic orchestra, from the horse boy sondtrack.
Tags: Mongolia, Bangladesh, Peru, Kerrie, Cameron, Children, World, Vision, Photography, workshops, Gers, Machu, Picchu, kerriecameron333, the, cinematic, orchestra, horse, boy, travel, journeys, ulaanbaatar, ulan, bator, trek, patenga, market, chittagong