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11 Days in Bangladesh

A travel blog entry by morpheous

... I ran 10km chasing that road. The road with an end that can never be reached. It felt really good. The week off was the right thing to do. There I was in that moment deep into the unknown. Into a place where I was some strange white apparition doing his best to smile and wave to suspicious and curious onlookers.

The following is an excerpt from paper written late at night. Long after everyone had gone to their rooms and settled in for a deep sleep with cool ocean ...

Shipment, birthdays, village trips, and Hartals

A travel blog entry by helenandben

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... closes down with virtually no shops open, very little cars on the road, and lots of civil unrest... cars on fire, fighting and lots of arrests! Luckily in the area we live there were very few problems, however there was lots of security surrounding School which kept us safe.. and a school with very few kids in it (about 40%), as many live far from the school and are not allowed to travel.

School is still busy, but lots of fun! Ben has been super ...

Our first week in Dhaka

A travel blog entry by helenandben

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So the beginning of what will hopefully be an exciting blog for our friends and family to read and gain an insight to our life in Bangladesh.

Our first week in Dhaka has been full of excitement, shock, happiness and sadness, hopefully through writing about our experiences along with photographs you can see why.

So we left London Heathrow on Thursday 4th August, it was full of emotion as we said our godbyes, but deep down we knew we had an exciting adventure ahead of ...

Settled into Dhaka life

A travel blog entry by danithenomad

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Well indeed it has been a while since I have updated. I would like to think that its because I have settled into Dhaka and now it feels like home and who wants to hear about boring home-life, but I think that would not be entirely true.

Settled in yes, working hard yes, but feeling at home... not completely. There have been some rough moments over the last couple weeks where I have been hit with the harsh reality of the lives of many people living in ...

Dhaka Impressions

A travel blog entry by henniterness

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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 very well traveled and ones that are from there, warned me of it being the biggest shithole or hell on earth, to quote just two of them.

If you are squirmish about seeing poverty, misery, dirt, people begging, ...