Tap taps are gaily painted buses or pick-up truck

Pick-Up Truck

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Share taxi

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Haiti

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Literally meaning "quick quick", these vehicles for hire

Vehicle for hire

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 are privately owned and beautifully decorated. They follow fixed routes, won't leave until filled with passengers, and riders can disembark at any point in the journey.

Visitors to Haiti are warned not to travel in tap taps, as doing so is unsafe.

Decoration

Often painted with religious names or slogans, the tap tap is known for its lavish decoration and many feature wild colors, portraits of famous people, and intricate, hand-cut wooden window covers.

Travel warnings

Many developed countries inform their citizens to not take tap taps when visiting Haiti.

Canada

While saying not to use any form of public transport in Haiti

Haiti

Haiti , officially the Republic of Haiti , is a Caribbean country. It occupies the western, smaller portion of the island of Hispaniola, in the Greater Antillean archipelago, which it shares with the Dominican Republic. Ayiti was the indigenous Taíno or Amerindian name for the island...

, the Foreign Affairs and International Trade Canada advises against tap tap travel especially.

US

The US State Department warns travelers not to use tap taps "because they are often overloaded, mechanically unsound, and driven unsafely."