The hardest road to school in the world

Students ride bicycles through thick smog in central Kalimantan province, Indonesia.

The country's air pollution problem has gradually become serious in recent years. The capital Jakarta once ranked third in the world's worst city air quality rankings in 2017, second only to the Chinese capital Beijing and the Bangladesh capital Dhaka. Card.

In the town of Kolaka Utara in this country, students will use ingenious-looking transportation methods, such as a seated zipline with seats for up to four people.

In some areas of Cairo, Egypt, the so-called "school bus" means children are packed into the back of an ordinary truck, even with their hands hanging on the vehicle.

This situation also happened in the suburbs of New Delhi, India. In the picture, at least 35 students were crowded in a carriage returning from school.

In addition to taking a ride, some students in the Morigaon region of northeastern India want to ride bicycles to school, but when heavy rains flood the rice fields, they can only go to school by boat.

In many remote places, a lack of infrastructure means students have to learn to take matters into their own hands, like the students in the Indian state of Kashmir who relied on the remains of a damaged pedestrian bridge to cross a river.

In the ancient coastal city of Galle in Sri Lanka, girls must place a wooden board on the 16th-century ancient city wall before they can go to school.

About 13 miles from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Japan, students at Owen Elementary School passed a Geiger counter used to measure radioactivity.

In Tokyo, where earthquakes and tsunamis occur frequently, some schools require parents to wear protective hats for their children when natural disasters strike. Due to the frequent natural disasters in Japan, Japan attaches great importance to national disaster prevention education. More and more families are equipped with disaster prevention supplies on a daily basis to cope with natural disasters that may occur at any time.

Going to school by water is common elsewhere in the world, but in Bataan province near Manila in the Philippines, students need to use pneumatic tires to wade across the river.

Also in the village of Kawag, north of Manila in the Philippines, local children have to cross knee-deep water to reach the rocky beach.

Other Filipino children learned to use homemade bamboo rafts to cross the river. Their destination was the remote Casili Elementary School in Rodriguez, Rizal Province.