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- Dhaka
- Capital
- Taka (BDT)
- Currency
- 131,269,860
- Population
- BD
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Bangladesh Slideshow
Bangladesh
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Bangladesh Photos
Visuals of Bangladesh. Here is some of what we see - and including the two of us. During this time we spent a week in Thailand at MCC planning ...
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Out of respect for cultural sensitivities, I am removing this blog entry. Unfortunately, I unknowingly had put some people's personal safety at risk with it. If anyone cares for a copy, feel free to contact me and I will send it via email. The ...
1 wedding, 12s of wedding events & 1000 guests
In the native language the literal translation of 'going to a wedding' is 'eating the wedding'. We are super excited and honouered to have been invited to our first Muslim wedding and look forward to wearing Sarees. Over the course of a week or so, there ...
Discovering the Wealth in Cambodia and Bangladesh
Some may think Asia is poor We say it has wealth In a span of 30 days, here are some ways we have experienced the wealth of ...
Two Excursions Along the Bay of Bengal
On two back-to-back occasions, we became better acquainted with the mighty Bay of Bengal. Here is an account of our 4-day boat trip into the Sundarbands region of Bangladesh and our visit to Puri,India, an overnight train ride south of ...
Our first week in Dhaka
... today the pain has gone slightly, however I still cant move my arm. So those of you on NHS waiting lists, just come to Bangladesh, you get everything as soon as you walk in the hospital, VIP waiting areas, someone to carry your patient files for you ...
En route to Dhaka
... waved our thanks and a cheerio to the BA crew and headed off towards Dhaka. Ten minutes later we were over the border into Bangladesh: the journey to Dhaka taking just over the hour we were on stand at 1545 (lost another half hour). The ...
Settling in...
... the hope of seeing the Ganges River Dolphins, and a visit to a weaving factory.. it will be lovely to see a different side to Bangladesh other than the city. Things we have planned long term is we have booked a holiday to Thailand in November, we have a ...
Cyclone Giri
October 22 2010. An uneventul journey to Dhaka, although the Biman Bangladesh flight was packed! We have spent a pleasant afternoon firstly at the Flying Club (sorting out payment for the 'hangarage' for this past week!) and then at the College of ...
Chittagong
October 23 2010. As soon as the alarm went off at 0545, Patrick checked the weather report. It seemed as if the cyclone had passed through and the weather for our routing to Chittagong would be OK. We met our handler's assistants at the ...
Dhaka Impressions
Lonely Planet just elected Bangladesh the #1 best value destination for 2011. http://www.lonelyplanet.com/bangladesh/travel-tips-and-articles/76216 Dhaka, I learned is the 3rd most populated city after Bejing and Bombay. Several people, including some ...
Shipment, birthdays, village trips, and Hartals
... and our super size sofa!!.... and the most exciting thing, our shipment from home finally arrived! Of course with everything in Bangladesh the process of things arriving in good time never happens. So.... we recieve confirmation on the 9th August ...
Rickshaws, three-wheelers and yellow cabs in Dhaka
Every morning I have a pleasant ride with a rickshaw from the AMRF Society house from Barbar Road 154 in Shyamoli to the offices of the NGO Forum for Drinking Water Supply and Sanitation and its National Resource Centre in Lalmatia. "Near Mohilla ...
Deja vu of Bangladesh
... , threatened to start a hunger strike to press home their demand for resumption of the food rations. For 32 years the Bangladesh government had borne the expenses for food rations and utility services for the stranded Pakistanis, who now number no less ...
Sunderbans Tiger Reserve... where are the tigers?
... Park Where the land meets the sea at the southern tip of West Bengal lies the Indian Sunderbans (vs the Bangladesh Sunderbans), a stretch of impenetrable mangrove forest of great size and bio-diversity. A UNESCO World Heritage Site, the Sunderbans is a ...
Another set of Sunderbans pictures
Here is another set of the five pictures from my Sunderbans cruise that I am allowed to ...
Stop #32
... to achieve a goal. Our skype was a mixture of talking and texting information:) I am so thankful for Mr. Akin's patience and persistence. Bangladesh is a full 11 hours ahead of us here in Kennesaw. It was 10:10 PM when Mr. Akin was able to connect with ...
Dhaka still at standstill
Hello all, Unbelievable! Dhaka is still a a standstill. Eid-ul-Fitre was celebrated on Monday, rather than on Sunday, because the Moonsighting Committee on Saturdy did not sight the moon... Khorshed Alam (in whose guesthouse I stay) said that they ...
A day in Old Dhaka
Ok.. so we have been living in Dhaka for 5 months now, and still hadnt been brave enough to venture down to Old Dhaka, so we decided as the weather was cool the time had come! So we took the 30 minute trip with our school driver and he said he would take ...
Changes and tempers in Bangladesh
... Bangladesh are malnourished and 36 percent of the new babies in the country are born underweight, according to UNICEF Bangladesh. Government health care is only reaching 22 percent of the population. Gender inequality 37 women were killed over ...
Marry Xmas and Happy 2005
From a warm Dhaka I wish everbody a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. I know from living here 25 years ago that we really could not celebrate Christmas in this part of the world, compared to home. I'll continue in Dutch. Hier een korte ...
DJ in Bangladesh Observer: 100 percent sanitation
... of the Union Parishad and local NGO and NGO Forum partner SUSS, a local integrated development organisation. This is how the Bangladesh Observer, 6 January 2005, reported on it, page 1 and 15, accessed on 15 January 2005, in: national news: ...
Dhaka has changed
... been in contact with him by e-mail through work. We had an inspiring exchange for two hours about a whole range of things around Bangladesh, life, my sabbatical plans, work. He invited me to come to Rashahi and offered to guide my around in a few villages ...
Vloedgolven en kerst
... te horen. Wat een ramp weer. Gelukkig heb ik in Dhaka niets gemerkt van de giga beving en daaruit voortkomen oceaangolf. Bangladesh zat inderdaad aan de rand, het verst van het episch centrum verwijderd. Chittagong (ten zuiden van Dhaka) mat een ...
Pictures Khulna and Narsingdi
Yesterday the uploading of five pictures from here did not work. So I am trying ...
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 ...
Through Bangladesh~
Flying Bangladesh Air, I was to depart Bangkok and trasit through Dhaka for a night, before continuing on to Kolkatta.. Easy enough? Except that upon landing in Dhaka, our breaks gave out, and we ended up skidding to a hault off in the grass. It was ...
Arrival hassle
Dear all, I arrived safely and on time in Dhaka. But what a hassle, especially at the airport. Immigration took close to an hour, as the computer coughed up a wrong number when they were handling my visa. "Step aside, Sir" and away my passport went ...