It's like a Mario Kart race that never ends

These are small town taxis called mototaxis.

Mostly they are blue and red, but there are also green and yellow varieties. Its like a four team go-kart race through the city.

There are many companies, and in an hour of sitting on the street corner one morning (long story) we determined that the letter before the number on each taxi refers to a specific company.  for example M=El Rayo (see photo below).  K is Pioneros and has a green stripe down the right side.

They rush everywhere on three wheels. Through town, between towns, in parking lots. They beep beep their clown horns to offer rides and to tell pedestrians and cars alike to watch out because they're coming through and not stopping. Even at 8 pm they rush around. I have no idea where they're all going. They seem to comprise 3/4 of the vehicles in town.

They are silly and awesome and have the steering system of a moped. Some are tricked out with stickers on the windshield and sides, my favorites have huge fins and spoilers on the back. Some have shark fins on the top.

The most bumpin´ ones had lights on the spoilers at night also.  Unfortunately they all managed to elude photo capture.

You learn quick to not get run over in the streets. And if they were all running over lines of floating coins and through rainbow surprise boxes it would almost look normal.

Going to Machu Picchu we went through a couple other small towns that had some cool colored ones.

Full Machu Picchu posts coming soon! Pinky swear.