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Sylhet Slideshow
Sylhet
Travel Blogs from Sylhet, Bangladesh
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Beauty & Slavery in Bangladesh
... many ways time here stands frozen in the colonial era of the late 1800s. Tea plantations are not native to Bangladesh; they introduced by the colonial powers. The colonials transformed the landscape as well as the people: hills were ...
A Family vacation to Bangladesh
... is a donation office where you can give whatever amount you want to be distributed amongst the poor. Day 13 - Bangladesh Tea Research Institution (Srimongol) While on a shopping trip we decided to pop in the BTRI, it's a ...
Capital city
Not many tourists visit Bangladesh so walking around Sylhet, a North East province, we were the biggest stars in town! We flew into Dhaka, the capital, spent a few days their and then took the train up to Sylhet. A lot of the families of ...
Spiders, Leeches and Tea as Far as the Eye Can See
This weekend, a few friends and I went on a road trip to Srimongol in the Sylhet Division of Bangladesh. This division is about an eight hour trip by highway if you factor in the two hours it takes to actually leave Dhaka and also random highway traffic ...
Christmas in the country
... Shazia Shah, a born-and-raised in London Bangladeshi woman, and myself boarded a "first class" bus to the city of Sylhet. Sylhet is a district in Bangladesh and also a city. It is a small city that is one of the most economically well-off cities ...
Bangla Country Stare-fest
GMG is the Bangladeshi airline Manu and I are booked on from Bangkok to Dhaka. The landing is one of the smoothest ever. The flight one of the most entertaining. - People are staring at us. I think I am the only blond person in the whole plane. This ...
Holiday in the countryside
... village people live mainly on the revenue from their beetle-leaf crops, which are a kind of drug used by many people in Bangladesh. Its legal, and doesn't seem to have any addictive properties but I'm not too sure about that. You eat the leaves with ...
Treated like a princess
We travelled to Sylhet with Aishah's uncle Mr Rahman, the finance minister of Bangladesh. This involved a convoy of cars clearing all the hectic traffic of Dhaka which was impressive to see (photos to follow). His hospitality was amazing, touring Sylhet ...
Family vacation to Bangladesh (South Asia)
... is a donation office where you can give whatever amount you want to be distributed amongst the poor. Day 13 - Bangladesh Tea Research Institution (Srimongol) While on a shopping trip we decided to pop in the BTRI, it's a research ...
How I am Hungry
... Chisti's friend Debasish (aka Debu) coordinated a 3 day getaway for me to Sri Mangal, the tea-growing region in northeast Bangladesh, it wasn't just a welcome escape from the booze, noise and pollution of Dhaka, but a golden chance for another test run ...
Sylhet-Tamabil-Jaflong Tour
... India. You can see their lots of waterfall from all over in those hilltops. The water of the river at Jaflong is very cold. We were go they're the last point of Bangladesh with reserve engine boat. After one hour we back to the way and leave the ...
A day in Srimangal at the Tea plantation
Drive to Srimangal (191 km/5hrs). Upon arrival check-in to an Ecolodge. Then visit of the tea plantation and plucking of tea leaves, Rubber Garden and the Monipuri Village. Dinner and overnight at the ...
SYLHET CONTOURS
... mon voyage. Bus de nuit de la Green Line. Je ne savais pas que de tels bus en parfait état et silencieux existaient au Bangladesh. Certes le prix pour Dacca (1.100 takas) m’avait paru élevé, mais c’était pratique, juste en bas de ...
Lawacherra forest and Sylhet
Visit the lawacherra forest, Khasia village, the Madhavpur lake and then drive to Sylhet (100km/3hrs). Arrival Sylhet in the evening to check-in at the hotel for dinner and ...
The Tea Gardens
... we headed off to the Radisson at the airport, to kill the hours. Marie welcomed the luxury toilet, and after 5 days in Bangladesh came out with a grin after visiting it! Marie also lapped up the Western food on offer at the restaurant. It was a ...
Bangladesh
... to have been a new night market established outside the place. The earplugs were a godsend! Dhaka is the capital of Bangladesh. Its a very industrial city, and suffers from smog, this was the thing which caused our delay getting here, along ...
Jan 20, 2011
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