It's like riding 'a bat'
Jesse Pesta has a
wonderful, colorful piece in the Wall Street Journal about a form of transportation unique to Cambodia: bamboo trains, known locally as "norry." Snip:
In Cambodia, real trains are almost as rare as bamboo
trains anywhere else. The impoverished country has a network of tracks
left over from French colonial days, but there are hardly any actual
trains running anymore. Only one line is in service. The railway never
recovered from the horrors of Khmer Rouge murder and war decades ago.
Don't miss his great photos and videos accompanying the article online A
six-year-old girl photographed just before her first norry ride is told
by her mom that it would be like riding "a bat."
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