First you get a tuk tuk out to the train tracks, then you find some people to take you on the bamboo train - which is a flat car powered by an engine. Since these train cars have "hijacked" the track there is really no order to how things are done. For instance...if you come head to head with another bamboo car you have to decide which car is going to dismantle so the other car can pass. Usually, the car with the bigger load is allowed to pass. On our way back from the hour bamboo train ride we led the pack of bamboo train cars - we were probably 10 strong. We came head to head with another bamboo train car that was loaded with tons of stuff, and people. So, they would be the heavier one, but since there were 10 cars all headed in the same direction it seems that our side would win because it doesn't seem right to have 10 train cars get off the track to let one pass. Well, the one car was not backing down! They just stayed on the track...we discussed having a dance off, but I don't think they understood us. So, all 10 train cars decided that we were just going to muscle our way through. They all turned their engines on and we just pushed these people back to start. I'm not going to lie...it was an uncomfortable ride with everyone from the car being pushed staring directly at you.
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