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Vehicle Spotting in Belém

Belém too proved to be interesting in terms of its vehicles.
Among a few old French and German vans, some motor homes, I even spotted an amphibious bus riding the waves of the vast Rio Tejo...
...and a 1920's beautiful old wooden yacht.

Belém had quite a collection of boats - I came across two marinas, but about those you can find out more right here.

In addition, I was able to learn about military vehicles at the local military museum and came across other military vehicles at an open air exhibition.

Find the vehicle spotting photos below...

Amphibious buses can ride the waves faster than you could imagine. The one above was cutting the water right in front of the Belém Tower, where the mouth of Rio Tejo is.

This is almost in the Atlantic Ocean...

The Citroën H van (seen above) is a light delivery truck produced between 1947-1981. Initially manufactured only in France, then in Spain as well.

More than 473,000 were made in 34 years.

Tin can feel...

The vans are nowadays used for selling various products and services - like boat tour tickets, renting out various vehicles and so on...

Segways are quite popular...

The Volkswagen Type 2 van requires no introduction. I was produced between 1950-1975 in Germany, Brazil and Australia.

Some called it "hippie bus", others "mini van". Various alternative names exist.

I'm stunned how well so many of them still work.

Time flies and these "boxes with wheels" are already becoming vintage delicacies, they become rarer.

Among a plethora of motor homes, I only found this single old Fiat worth mentioning - for the sake of the paintwork only.

They made a bunch of these in the 1980's and the 1990's. Europe has plenty of them.

From wheeled vehicles, let's swap to boats...

The small wheeled mini sailing boats are used by those who are learning to sail.

I've seen a bunch of these during my trips. They tend to roam in groups, mostly sailed by youngsters. But they're lead by at least one leader - the teacher.

"1921" was written on the cabin's side of this old wooden yacht. I hope the figure is correct.

Classical beauty...

If "The Rum Diary", "Ernest Hemingway" cling nice to you, if you like movies with castaways, yacht adventures and you'll love this one too!

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