Riding the bamboo railway
Cambodia’s railways are no longer officially in use apart from for freight trains. Locals however make use of them to transport goods between towns and markets with their own homemade trains. The trains known as the bamboo railways are made from a bamboo platform balanced on top of wheels and axels pinched from tanks and a small engine sits at the back. Close to Battambang there is a section of track setup for tourists to ride on the bamboo railway. $10 pays for a bamboo train to make a 1 hour round trip along the rickety old tracks. The track is disconnected in places and twisted, so an hour is more than enough as its a very bumpy ride! When a bamboo train meets another bamboo train coming in the opposite direction, whoever has the lightest load needs to dismantle and get out of the way.
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