http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Bangladesh/Sylhet/ Travel adventures in journals and photos from Asia , Bangladesh , Sylhet en-us Mon, 28 Dec 09 04:36:05 +0000 Mon, 28 Dec 09 04:36:05 +0000 \ Biking Through the Tea Estates 290509 This morning I woke up thinking it would be a mellow day bike riding through the tea estates of Sylhet. However I am quickly learning that nothing in Bangladesh is easy or relaxing. The bike shopkeeper was supposed to deliver fifteen bikes for the interns at 9 am to the Nirala Guesthouse. Of course when we walked downstairs in the morning there was no http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Bangladesh/Sylhet/blog-403796.html \ Im Hotel nach einer laengeren Reise von einem Bankautomaten zum naechsten und dann einigen Stunden im Internetcafe wollte ich mir eine Route durch Bangladesh ausarbeiten. Aber.... der Reisefuehrer war nicht mehr da........SCHEISSE Ohne Fuehrer geht es grundsaetzlich auch jedoch schwer da niemand english spricht und alles in Bangal angeschrieben ist somit nicht lesbar. Also eine Rikschatour dur http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Bangladesh/Sylhet/blog-345482.html \ A friend from the UK came to visit me last Friday and prior to her arrival Iwe decided to go on a brief sojourn to Srimongol there are different spellings but Irsquom going to stick to one. Srimongol is where the teaestates are here in Bangladesh in the Sylhet region east of the country very close to the Indian border. Dhaka is such a chaotic city to live in and visit especially for http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Bangladesh/Sylhet/blog-303989.html \ I decided to take a holiday this past weekend with a couple of my friends. Even though it was great to get out to Matlab for a night it was still workrelated and after a month in Dhaka having a real holiday was wellappreciated. I went with Luke who is one of my flatmates and also works at ICDDRB floating around helping out with cholera patients and patients with infectious diseases. Th http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Bangladesh/Sylhet/blog-294746.html \ 4 glorious days off work stretched in front of us how should we spend itDrinking tea and sheltering from the horrendous daily onslaught of Dhaka noise seemed like a sensational way to escape.We rose early on Friday morning to catch the 4 hour train ride to the northern state of Sylhet renowned world wide for it's magnificent tea. The jampacked train station was the usual source of panic for m http://www.travelblog.org/Asia/Bangladesh/Sylhet/blog-284307.html