Around town

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Random Outings

We’ve been trying to keep busy the last couple weekends by finding random things to see around Dhaka. Last weekend was the Military History Museum, right next to the Planetarium (also on our list of places to visit) and near the Chinese Bangladesh Convention Center. The Museum was nice, and entertaining in that [...]

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Dhaka Traffic Worsens

Apparently with the change back to democracy the traffic situation in Dhaka has gone downhill – there are more unauthorized vehicles on the streets, and the higher number of VVIPs in government is a distraction for the traffic police who have to help facilitate motorcades instead of direct regular traffic.  From the Daily Star:
Return of [...]

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Conflicting views on Shankharibazar

This week an old building in Shankharibazar partially collapsed, injuring three people and re-igniting the debate about what to do about that sector of Old Dhaka.  The City has declared the zone a heritage site, so no more buildings can be demolished, but there is no money or public plan to restore the buildings.  The [...]

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New bridge!

We have a new bridge in our neighborhood! Bridges are crucial here, because there is so much water everywhere – essentially each neighborhood is divided from the others by a lake, and traffic gets all tied up around the bridges that link the different neighborhoods.  So it is really exciting that there is a [...]

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Polluted

A few days ago in our neighborhood we passed some people burning suitcases in the street.  Let me repeat – burning suitcases.  If you want to talk about air pollution, nothing will gunk up the air like suitcase smoke.
Bangladeshis like to think of November to February as winter.  So far nighttime temperatures have plummeted to [...]

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Protected: Eid for Non-Believers

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Uninspired

Dhaka lately has left me thus.  Ah well.
We’re staying busy, anyways, even if I don’t manage to write about it much.  Last weekend was Halloween of course – M’s first Halloween – and with an hour before the big Marine house party we even manage to come up with costumes!  I am not big on [...]

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