Bamboo Train In Cambodia

Bamboo train, locally people called NORRY, became the popular transportation for foreigners to sightsee in the country side. It is located near the Battambang City around 7 Km from the city. Normally, the villagers living along or near the railway are traveling on this road by using the NORRY as supposed locally transportation because it is cheap and saving cost expense. Even it is spend time when there are some opposite directions of Bamboo train come joints in somewhere. When they travel with opposite directions, they always help each other, they carry the bamboo carriage from the railway and then push other one straight then they fix the other one again on railway. The travelers have to get off the carriage and waiting for the owner to fix the carriage and motor. They used small size of engine generator to push the carriage.

Bamboo train “NORRY” is made from the existing locally raw material such as bamboo, wooden, nails, steel wheels and two axels. These material are not expensive expect enginery. Each Bamboo train can use multi-transportation as same as car truck or taxi. It is so interesting when villager use it as important transportation for the villagers take patients or pregnant to hospital for treatment and delivery the baby. They also use to transport the livestock.

Today, Bamboo train near the Battambang Capital, is become a popular adventure traveling for the tourist from the world. It is very useful and market for the local villagers to get additional income to support their family. The local authority is formed the group of Bamboo Train to avoid any issues happen when the tourist come visit their place. They also think about the services provide and serve to their customers with good services, and hygiene.

In general, it is great time for the tourist to try riding the NORRY or Bamboo Train, because we can see the view of rice field, learning about the standard living of villagers around the railway and think about what happen if there is re-construction this railway again because the Royal Government of Cambodia loaned from ADB to develop this railway from Khmer – Thai border to Phnom Penh Capital