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  • 29 JUNE 2013 - BATTAMBANG, CAMBODIA:  A 77 year old woman who sells snack and drinks on the side of the bamboo train tracks near Battambang. The bamboo train, called a norry (nori) in Khmer is a 3m-long wood frame, covered lengthwise with slats made of ultra-light bamboo, that rests on two barbell-like bogies, the aft one connected by fan belts to a 6HP gasoline engine. The train runs on tracks originally laid by the French when Cambodia was a French colony. Years of war and neglect have made the tracks unsafe for regular trains.  Cambodians put 10 or 15 people on each one or up to three tonnes of rice and supplies. They cruise at about 15km/h. The Bamboo Train is very popular with tourists and now most of the trains around Battambang will only take tourists, who will pay a lot more than Cambodians can, to ride the train.       PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 29 JUNE 2013 - BATTAMBANG, CAMBODIA:  A 77 year old woman who sells snack and drinks on the side of the bamboo train tracks near Battambang. The bamboo train, called a norry (nori) in Khmer is a 3m-long wood frame, covered lengthwise with slats made of ultra-light bamboo, that rests on two barbell-like bogies, the aft one connected by fan belts to a 6HP gasoline engine. The train runs on tracks originally laid by the French when Cambodia was a French colony. Years of war and neglect have made the tracks unsafe for regular trains.  Cambodians put 10 or 15 people on each one or up to three tonnes of rice and supplies. They cruise at about 15km/h. The Bamboo Train is very popular with tourists and now most of the trains around Battambang will only take tourists, who will pay a lot more than Cambodians can, to ride the train.       PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 29 JUNE 2013 - BATTAMBANG, CAMBODIA:  A 77 year old woman who sells snack and drinks on the side of the bamboo train tracks near Battambang. The bamboo train, called a norry (nori) in Khmer is a 3m-long wood frame, covered lengthwise with slats made of ultra-light bamboo, that rests on two barbell-like bogies, the aft one connected by fan belts to a 6HP gasoline engine. The train runs on tracks originally laid by the French when Cambodia was a French colony. Years of war and neglect have made the tracks unsafe for regular trains.  Cambodians put 10 or 15 people on each one or up to three tonnes of rice and supplies. They cruise at about 15km/h. The Bamboo Train is very popular with tourists and now most of the trains around Battambang will only take tourists, who will pay a lot more than Cambodians can, to ride the train.       PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 04 JANUARY 2012 - BANGKOK, THAILAND:  A woman who sells fish food to Thais hoping to make merit by feeding fish and pigeons waits for customer at Wat Mahabut in eastern Bangkok. The temple was built in 1762 and predates the founding of the city of Bangkok. Just a few minutes from downtown Bangkok, the neighborhoods around Wat Mahabut are interlaced with canals and still resemble the Bangkok of 60 years ago. Wat Mahabut is a large temple off Sukhumvit Soi 77. The temple is the site of many shrines to Thai ghosts. Many fortune tellers also work on the temple's grounds.   PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 17 JANUARY 2013 - SAMUT SONGKHRAM, SAMUT SONGKHRAM, THAILAND: An elderly woman shops in the Samut Songkhram market. Four trains each day make the round trip from Baan Laem, near Samut Sakhon, to Samut Songkhram, the train chugs through market eight times a day (coming and going). Each time market vendors pick up their merchandise and clear the track for the train, only to set up again when the train passes. The market on the train tracks has become a tourist attraction in this part of Thailand and many tourists stop to see the train on their way to or from the floating market in Damnoen Saduak.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 04 JANUARY 2012 - BANGKOK, THAILAND:  A woman who sells fish food to Thais hoping to make merit by feeding fish and pigeons waits for customer at Wat Mahabut in eastern Bangkok. The temple was built in 1762 and predates the founding of the city of Bangkok. Just a few minutes from downtown Bangkok, the neighborhoods around Wat Mahabut are interlaced with canals and still resemble the Bangkok of 60 years ago. Wat Mahabut is a large temple off Sukhumvit Soi 77. The temple is the site of many shrines to Thai ghosts. Many fortune tellers also work on the temple's grounds.   PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 04 JANUARY 2012 - BANGKOK, THAILAND:  A woman who sells fish food to Thais hoping to make merit by feeding fish and pigeons waits for customer at Wat Mahabut in eastern Bangkok. The temple was built in 1762 and predates the founding of the city of Bangkok. Just a few minutes from downtown Bangkok, the neighborhoods around Wat Mahabut are interlaced with canals and still resemble the Bangkok of 60 years ago. Wat Mahabut is a large temple off Sukhumvit Soi 77. The temple is the site of many shrines to Thai ghosts. Many fortune tellers also work on the temple's grounds.   PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
    Bangkok0104033.jpg
  • 05 OCTOBER 2012 - BANGKOK, THAILAND:  A woman uses a magnifying glass while she shops for amulets in the amulet market in Bangkok. Hundreds of vendors sell amulet and Buddhist religious paraphernalia to people in the area north of the Grand Palace near Wat Maharat in Bangkok.        PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 05 OCTOBER 2012 - BANGKOK, THAILAND:  A woman uses a magnifying glass while she shops for amulets in the amulet market in Bangkok. Hundreds of vendors sell amulet and Buddhist religious paraphernalia to people in the area north of the Grand Palace near Wat Maharat in Bangkok.        PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 30 JUNE 2012 - PRESCOTT, AZ:  NORM MULLENIX, left, and PAT BLAKEY, members of the Prescott Regulators & Their Shady Ladies, an old west reenactors group, wait to march in the Prescott 4th of July Parade. The Prescott Frontier Days Rodeo Parade is marking its 125th year. It is one of the largest 4th of July Parades in Arizona. Prescott, about 100 miles north of Phoenix, was the first territorial capital of Arizona.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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  • 30 JUNE 2012 - PRESCOTT, AZ:  NORM MULLENIX, left, and PAT BLAKEY, members of the Prescott Regulators & Their Shady Ladies, an old west reenactors group, wait to march in the Prescott 4th of July Parade. The Prescott Frontier Days Rodeo Parade is marking its 125th year. It is one of the largest 4th of July Parades in Arizona. Prescott, about 100 miles north of Phoenix, was the first territorial capital of Arizona.    PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
    Prescott4thJulyParade002.jpg
  • 03 MARCH 2013 - BANGKOK, THAILAND: NAN TANA prays at the Chuchok Shrine. She was returning to the shrine to make merit after Chuchok granted her wishes of winning the lottery and restoring happiness in her marriage. She also paid for two "coyote dancers" to entertain Chuchok, who she said, "was an old man who liked young ladies." The Chuchok Shrine is in suburban Bangkok. More than 100 people a week come to the shrine to pray for good fortune or good health. People whose prayers are answered return to the shrine with "coyote dancers" to make merit and thank Chuchok. Coyote dancing is a Thai phenomenon created after the US movie "Coyote Ugly" where attractive young women dance in a sexually suggestive way, usually for pay. They're common at bars and festivals. Coyote dancers are typically better paid than other Thai women in the hospitality industry and usually are not allowed to date or see customers are off the dance floor. Coyote dancers perform at the Chuchok shrine because according to Buddhist literature Chuchok was a relatively repulsive old hermit and Brahmin priest who was cared for by a young woman after he made her family's wishes come true.   PHOTO BY JACK KURTZ
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