Country Info
- Dhaka
- Capital
- Taka (BDT)
- Currency
- 131,269,860
- Population
- BD
- Country Code
Bangladesh Slideshow
Bangladesh
Travel Blogs from Bangladesh
C’EST QUOI CE COX’S BAZAR ?
... quoi bon ? L’attraction principale du lieu est sa plage, la plus grande plage du monde, il faut bien que le Bangladesh gagne quelque part ! 120 km sans discontinuer, une plage énorme de sable blanc à faible pente, large comme les grandes ...
Boat Trip
There are lots of rivers in Bangladesh. A teacher at school owns a boat share and invited all the new teachers on a boat ride up one of the rivers. We had the chance to visit the village where our boat captain lives. It was a nice way to spend a Friday ...
Arrive in Dhaka
I really do need to spend some time in HK, as the scenary from the airport is intoxicating. The hills, the high rises, the water. I shall return! From HK, it was on to KL (Malaysia) and then to Dhaka. Arrived late at night and was thrust back into ...
Personal political business as usual
... . The fourth front page story is about reports from Canada that Niko paid a bribe for Bapex deal. In a small box the readers learn that India has the worst air quality followed by Bangladesh, according to the 2012 Environmental Performance ...
A marriage function in Dhaka
A marriage in Dhaka I attended a marriage ceremony in Dhaka. Professor Iqbal Ahmad invited me to the marriage of daughter of his Rotarian friend. Just enjoy some photos and I will update this entry in coming days. Myself, Krishna, Srinivas ...
Watch Sergio Martinez vs Darren Barker Live stream
Match Schedule Competetor: Sergio Martinez vs Darren Barker Status: Live/Repeat Competition: Boxing(12 Rounds - Middleweight Division (for Martinez's RING championship)) Date : Saturday, Oct. 1, 2011 Kick Off: 21:00 pm CET Venue: Atlantic City, N.J. ...
Srimangal, Land of Tea
... final cricket match in the Asia Cup (underdog Bangladesh vs. experienced pros Pakistan), Mary and I departed for Srimangal. (Unfortunately Bangladesh ended up losing by just two runs!! heartbreaking) The train from Dhaka to Srimangal takes about 5.5 ...
Dive Into Dhaka
... is a 2-story building charging 5 Taka admission (US$1 = 73 Taka - you do the math), and chronicles East Pakistan's (now Bangladesh) war of independence against West Pakistan (now Pakistan). The entire exhibit took no more than 15 minutes to tour and I ...
bangas and mash
... friends living and working here in Dhaka for 2 years at the International School I thought what the hell.... I probably wont ever go to Bangladesh again! Even just waiting at the airport in the lounge in Bangkok I was feeling of what was to come. I had ...
BRAC's Microfinance Program
... up and expansion of income generating activities and micro-enterprises. Like some of the other MFI's operating in Bangladesh, BRAC's microfinance programme provides collateral free financing and door-to-door service to collect loan installments from its ...
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 ...
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 ...
Puthia, Natore, Paharpur and Rajshahi WHU, Gaud
Rajshahi is a well known tourist destination within Bangladesh, with there being many interesting landmarks. Ruins of the Buddhist Vihara at Paharpur Evidence of the rise of Mahayana Buddhism in Bengal from the 7th century onwards, Somapura Mahavira, or ...
Jan 04, 2011
Jan 08, 2011
Jan 20, 2011
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 ...
Bangladesh 2
May 14, 2009 Day trip from Dhaka to Chittagong: You need to get up early (Left at 5:00 am) and a focussed driver. It took about 6 hours to get there and 6 hours to get back - long day. Once you are out of the cities it is not too bad... Road fairly good, ...
Missed Train
So thanks to a problem with my hotel's computer system, I was unable to check out on time this morning and ended up missing my train from Chittagong to Dhaka. Luckily for me, I managed to create enough of a scene that the hotel called the train station ...