Khulna
Travel Blogs from Khulna, Bangladesh
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The border from hell
... border gate, wandered through, then had it thoroughly checked again on the Indian side. As I wandered through the gate that said "Bangladesh to India" I thought I'd made it. In fact, the trouble had barely begun. By this stage I'd lost bus man, as he ...
Biggest Tidal Mangrove in the World (ohhhh ahhhh!)
... the rocket down river was to get to the Sunderbands. I had never heard of the Sunderbands before arriving in Bangladesh but they are supposedly the world's largest tidal mangrove.(World Heritage Site) It's covered in dense vegetation and ...
Back to Bangladesh
... days. Then I went on another tiger hunt! This time we spent 4 days on a boat going up and down the rivers of Bangladesh in a mangrove forest. Supposedly its the largest mangrove forest- whatever that means! Anyways we had a fun time relaxing on the boat, ...
On the Rocket to Khulna
... ). Getting there involves a cycle rickshaw ride, a boat, a local bus and another cycle rickshaw - but that's how sightseeing is in Bangladesh. The bus ride was along what can hardly be described as a road - the bus wallah had to use a bamboo pole to life ...
Views from the field
... Dr. Avizit Reaz Quazi. They were analysing the need and site for a deep tubewell in this saline area in Southern Bangladesh. Engineer Md. Refatul Islam completed the team, bringing in his technical expertise. Avizit explained to the villagers what the ...
Fishing with otters
... nbsp; Unfortunately as I was getting back on the boat I slipped on the muddy riverbank and dislocated my shoulder. It was a long 4 hour boat ride and a bumpy rickshaw ride in Khulna with it still dislocated to get to an English speaking ...
I need a doctor!
After a bumpy rickshaw ride to get to the doctor he put it back in for me......no painkillers........OUCH!! After that I went back to Dhaka where my lovely friend Benny had some good painkillers waiting for me. Thanks ...
Does this girl ever work?
... few days). We were treated so kindly here, given massive hot meals, our own bedrooms to rest, and lots of great stories about Bangladesh’s history. In the evening we made our way to the dock in Khulna, where our guide for the Sundarbans tour met us, ...
flying solo from bangkok to chittagong
december 16, 2006 drove to suvarnabhumi airport in bangkok and parked in the long term parking lot which also serves as "a long way to the terminal" parking lot. they charge 140 baht per day. you have to take a bus to the terminal building. the buses ...
lunch with behrouze
... . behrouze handed me his business card. it said that he was the chairman of the board of the largest tea company in bangladesh. wow again! we chatted about the good old days and also about poverty and corruption and decided to meet up again for ...
bhatiary golf and country club
december 18, 2006 hole number 1: 500-yard par 5 it's a gentle dogleg right. rather narrow at the tee with a little bit of room to the right for slicers cut off sharply by a steep forested mountain. on the left is a row of leafy trees to keep ...
last stop in Bangladesh
... eine ziemliche tour von St. Martin's Island nach Mongla. bin erst mal um ca. 2h morgens in der zweitgroessten stadt Bangladesh's - Chittagong - angekommen. also war nur mehr hotel suchen drinnen. am naechsten tag ging mein bus erst um 4 am nachmittag - ...
PAS DE GANG-BANG, LA DECHE...
... un climat lourd, de la corruption aussi sans doute comme chaque fois que ce serait bien de se montrer raisonnable… Le Bangladesh trouve une certaine force dans l’industrie du textile et il semblerait que depuis plusieurs années, le Bangladesh ...
Coping with Bangla
Although a surprising number of Bangladeshis are able to speak some basic English phrases, mainly 'which country are you from?', learning the rudiments of Bangla went a long way to making a trip more memorable. Using the Lonely Planet phrasebook, I was ...
KHULNA MATATA
Samedi 28 janvier Bonjouratous, Quelques notions géographiques. Le Bangladesh est totalement enclavé dans l'Inde, sauf un petit bout de frontière commune avec la Birmanie au sud-est. En regardant une carte, ça paraît être un découpage bizarre, mais ...
Cruise from Chittagong to the Sundarbans
... 260 bird species, the Bengal tiger and other threatened species such as the estuarine crocodile and the Indian python. Cruise to Khulna, part of the Sunderbans and WHU In the afternoon visit of Bagerbat (WHU). Situated in the suburbs of Bagerhat, at ...
Beguiling Bangladesh
... , terracotta Hindu temples, old crumbling landowner palaces – and also quite importantly there is the beautiful countryside. Bangladesh is a flat, wet country. The lakes and ponds highlight the fertile green land through mirrored reflections. A ...
The forest of the night
... , but was soon cheered up by the journey. I of course made lots of new friends - a young chap called Raisul who's studying at Khulna (very trendy in his sunglasses), Jimi from Pabna in North Bangla who invited me to his home and was keen to show me the ...
JE RINCE A JESSORE
... de ce qui m’attend. J’ai forcément des aprioris (quoiqu’édulcorés par mes lectures), et le Bangladesh évoque forcément extrême pauvreté, inondations, etc. Vivement que les tabous sautent. Autre remarque, l’anglais ...
Sunderbans here we come
At the end of the first day in Dhaka we find our self in Khulna in the Western hotel, after we managed in the morning to book a Sunderbans tour through the Guide Tours, www.guidetours.com. The only possibility still on offer was with the Guide Tours ...
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