After only an hour-long downpour yesterday, Dhaka city became what can only be described as a scene from the famous movie Waterworld. People from all walks of life, especially school children were ones to suffer the most. Had it been in a developing country, schools would be declared closed, but not in Bangladesh -- here children fight the forces of nature and battle their way through wind and tide just to reach school.

As we know, the inability to get to school is a big reason why more than 60 million kids worldwide are living without a quality education. Bangladesh, takes its education seriously but it is not alone in its incredible story of children defeating the odds just to reach school. Here is a compilation by globalcitizen.org showing how children around the world go to extreme lengths just to go to school. 

Without further ado, here are 7 examples of unusual or incredible school commutes around the world:

1. Kids crouch up a flooded rickshaw in Dhaka, Bangladesh 

Photo: Star

2. Indonesia cross the Ciberang River on a collapsed suspension bridge

Photo: Reuters

3. No school bus? In Colombia, try a zip-line

Photo: Bored Panda

4. These students in Southern China scale more ladders than an arcade game character on their way to school

Photo: Bored Panda

5. All aboard the rubber tire in Philipines. Next stop: learning. 

Photo: Amusing Planet

6. They're on a boat! Indonesian schoolkids take a nautical route to school

Photo: World Bank

7.  In the Himalayas, the trek to school is a journey through ice and snow

Photo: Bored Panda