A clever driver lengthened his tuk-tuk to ride through a flooded road in the Philippines.

Video shows the three-wheeled vehicle towering over the floods swamping Hagonoy town in Bulacan province on July 31. Its chassis had been modified with long steel 'legs' allowing it to drive through the deluge with more ease than regular tricycles.

Bulacan province had been battered by Typhoons Doksuri and Khanun in July, with residents still grappling with heavy rains caused by the southwest monsoon.

Tuktuk drivers have modified their vehicles - named after the long-legged 'Tikling' or buff-banded rail bird - as a workaround to the perennial flooding.

The Philippines and neighbouring countries in Southeast Asia are in their annual monsoon rainy season which sees soaring temperatures followed by powerful rain storms in the afternoon leading to widespread flash floods.