Colombia loves its alternative transportation, especially handmade, jerry-rigged vehicles that often run where you would least expect them. To get to the Afro-Colombian Pacific coast town of San Cipriano, located inside of a National Park, visitors must hop on a small wooden platform equipped with cushioned benches, powered by old motorcycles whose back wheel sits atop a rail, that takes them a mile or so along railway tracks.

Through lush jungle, over bridges and inside of tunnels, these brujitas (little witches), as these hand-made transportation devices are called, screech around curves and bump and grind over old railway ties. If a train should happen to pass through, or if a brujita comes the other way, the drivers simply ask the passengers to step off the vehicle and then calmly lift the motorcycle platform off the tracks. 

Before motorcycles were harnessed, kids used to use long sticks to propel these benches on platforms, much like gondoliers, giving the illusion of flying over the rails.