BongoBazar

Last weekend we finally made it down to BongoBazar, a destination we’ve been trying to get to for months(!). We’d heard this is the place to go for export-market garments and were curious as to whether there were really loads of surplus goods for sale.  The factories here do, after all, produce for purchasers [...]

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Kumudini handicrafts

Today we visited the Narayanganj location of the Kumudini Welfare Trust of Bangladesh, a vast organization here with activities ranging from jute and pharmaceuticals to handicrafts and a nursing college.  We went to see their jute factory – pictures of the jute tomorrow – but we also go to visit the workrooms to see of [...]

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Rajshahi: Mangos and More

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 [...]

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International Trade Fair

The Dhaka International Trade Fair is going on all this month in Dhaka!  The fair brings together over 450 vendors from Bangladesh and across the region.  It is HUGE – we spent almost 3 hours there and didn’t even see half of the fair.  And the variety of goods was quite impressive, covering everything from [...]

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There are some things money can’t buy

… for everything else, there’s the internet.  And Mom.
I’ve been running low on some essentials here, if you call facewash and makeup essentials (as I think most women do), and today I got a package I’ve been waiting for from CVS.com!  Begin shameless plug – I ran out of facewash a week ago, so the [...]

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Quiet weekend

Not a lot going on around here.  I went to work today, which is always a terrifically exciting way to spend a Saturday.
Or something.
I also checked out a trendy new home decorating store, which was nice, and … I got a copy of my car key made!  For whatever reason, when our car arrived from [...]

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Trip to the market

Over the holidays we did a lot of wandering around town (it was quiet in Dhaka), checking out the markets and all the little stores around our neighborhood. We managed to stumble across some export-quality clothes, which is exciting, although they were mostly men’s. My shopping options are still pretty much limited to [...]

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More travels!

We took advantage of the holiday this week (which fell on a Tuesday, of course, but we take what we can get) to make a short trip over to Calcutta.  You know things are dire when you’re going on vacation to Calcutta.
And yes, we had a lovely time!  Calcutta is much like Dhaka – same [...]

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