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Liling,

 

What were you doing in Bangladesh......I mean.....apart from taking photos of the visit.

Was it business or pleasure?

With all the recent scares about influenza, many business people are travelling only if absolutely necessary.  Company rules....

 

Regards,

MTF

Hie Melvyn..

I had nothing exciting planned over the Labour Day weekend. And i have not been to any "new" countries this year.. so i decided to gobble half a bottle of multivitamins and hop on to the next plan to Dhaka...

I was pleasantly surprised to discover that the Dhaka-ians are really friendly and eager to pose for us foreign looking people. Tourism is not a big thing in Bangladesh. In fact, almost non-existent from what i saw ( unlike India, the locals and foreigners pay the same to enter places of interest ).

Am glad i made the trip and i'm looking forward to my next getaway which starts next week. Shanghai.. here i come !

LiL,

You must be fully vaccinated and immunised to be able to just "grab some multivitamins and fly to Dhaka for a weekend" !

I used to work in infectious diseases and company policy was to cover me for everything, in case of such emergency travel.  But for fun?!  I don't know if I would keep up the prophylaxis programme. 

Keep us posted about Shanghai.

 

Regards, MTF

Poverty


Life in a cardboard house


Night market


Jump !


Trishaw man - he cycled us around the campus ( total weight exceeding 120 kg ) for an hour and asked for USD$1 as payment.

of the places the upper crust of Dhaka frequent? I'm sure there are some really swanky places that cater to the elite of the country.

S

Yes i did.. most of the swanky places are in Gulshan which is the Embassy area of Dhaka.. but these places are not as swanky as those you might find in big cities like Shanghai, Tokyo and Kuala Lumpur

I don't have good pictures.. but just to give u an idea..


Swimming Pool are of Westin Dhaka


Lounge at Pan Pacific Sonargaon


Cafe Mango.. supposed to be a hip restaurant.. but.. erm.. perhaps my expectations were too high..