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In the United States, the site of a yellow bus bouncing down the road is practically synonymous with school.
But in other parts of the world, the trek to school looks much different.
Some kids in the Philippines step through knee-deep rocky waters to get to class, while students in Japan pass Geiger counters tracking local radiation levels.
Here's what early-morning commutes to school look like around the world.
In the Central Kalimantan province of Indonesia, kids ride their bikes through air thick with smog. Air pollution levels have risen steadily in the country in recent years.Sigit Pamungkas/ReutersSource: The New York Times
In parts of Cairo, Egypt, "school buses" involve kids piling into and hanging off the back of ordinary trucks.Amr Dalsh/Reuters
On the outskirts of New Delhi, India, groups of at least 35 children sit together on a horse cart to get home from school.Pawel Kopczynski/AP
In Sri Lanka, some girls must cross wooden planks laid over the walls of a 16th century fort in the coastal town of Galle.Vivek Prakash/Reuters
About 13 miles away from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant in Japan, kids at Omika Elementary School come face to face with Geiger counters ticking off local radiation levels.Toru Hanai/Reuters
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