Posted in Bangladesh, Rural scenes, Travels, tagged Chittagong, Ship Breaking on August 24, 2009 | 1 Comment »
We spent last weekend in Chittagong – Bangladesh’s second city! And while it rained the entire time we still did what we could to make the most of this mini-vacation.
Me, in the monsoon:
We visited the port, or the beach, or something. Anyways, there were lots of fishing boats:
We also visited the golf club, and [...]
Posted in Bangladesh, Rural scenes on July 10, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
A few more pics from the trip we took last week. We drove just outside of Dhaka and happened to pass by a bunch of little ponds and canals where people had built all these little stores and houses on bamboo stilts – because of the high floodwater and lack of land in Dhaka, [...]
Posted in Bangladesh, Rural scenes, Travels on July 6, 2009 | 1 Comment »
This weekend we saw the jute factory at Kumudini, one of their main income-generating projects that supports the other, charitable branches of the foundation (such as the handicrafts, plus a hospital, nurses college, and more).
Jute.
Lots of jute!
Cut jute looks like this.
Full length jute looks like this.
Then they bundle it all up and compress it [...]
Posted in Bangladesh, Food, Rural scenes, Shopping on July 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I traveled to Rajshahi on a very quick trip this week, with barely enough time to snap a few pics. Of course we made time to buy some famous Rajshahi mangos!
The shop where we bought our mangos; getting all weighed out.
Also at the market: lots of bananas and jackfruit.
Planting rice.
Rice in closeup, and some [...]
Posted in Bangladesh, Rural scenes on June 23, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
I was in Mymensingh very briefly this week and snapped just a few pictures. It’s a beautiful area, surrounded by rice and jute and brick factories. (I’m sure there’s more, but I can’t identify all the plants as we drive by!)
The photos aren’t the most polished compositions – as you can tell, I took them [...]
Posted in Bangladesh, Nature, Rural scenes, Travels, tagged Not Dhaka, Srimongol, Tourism on February 18, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Photos from the Tea Estates in Srimongol! Apparently it’s not always easy to see the estates – some of the landowners won’t give you permission to look around – but just driving around the region you see lots of tea. This is tea:
Tea.
So you can pretty much see the estates just driving around [...]
Posted in Bangladesh, Nature, Rural scenes, Travels, tagged Not Dhaka, Srimongol on February 17, 2009 | 1 Comment »
Today I hoped to post the pictures from the tea estates, but it’s been a wee bit hectic and … it didn’t so much happen. So here is a picture, with the promise of more to come.
Me, checking out the estate. Children, checking out me. Par for the course here.
Posted in Bangladesh, Nature, Rural scenes, Travels, tagged Lowacherra Forest, Not Dhaka, Srimongol, Tourism on February 16, 2009 | 2 Comments »
In Srimongol one of the highlights is the Lowacherra National Park, and we made this our first stop, hoping (correctly) that we could arrive before the BUSLOADS of tourists from Dhaka. More on the buses later.
The park was quite nice – most of it does not seem to be original growth, but it had nicely [...]
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