Valuable Insight Thank you so much for posting this article about your journey! I'm going to be in Dhaka / Cox's Bazar for a week and have never been to India, so had no idea what to expect. Your honest review has really helped me!
Still looking forward to my trip!
Best,
Pam
Oh so true! Hello,
This is all so true! (except number 9 in my case!) I've been in Dhaka 5 years and still love it! I don't do much, but these little things you mentionned do make a difference!
Take care,
CV
nice 5 layer tea. really Srimongol is very beautiful place.we can find there some rare things.especially the 5 layer tea.this tea only you can find out in srimongol.
I'm not sure if you can get a massage in Dhaka because you're a man; it's not usual in the culture. However a salon called 'Avera', which is in Baridhara, off one of the roads near Park Road may do it.
Great advices Hello Claire, Thanks very much for your comments. I´m living with my wife here in Dhaka since 1 month ago. Your comments had been an excellent guide for us and I can tell you that we are unloved of movin pick, It´s greattttt.
I´m also living near Mango Cafe, can you tell me where is the Local Saloon, I´m needing a massage urgently.
Thank you very much
oRoberto
I have visited Riyadh, Jeddah, Hong Kong, Darjileeng, Seoul, Kathmundu, but believe me, Dhaka attracts me like a magnet. The pure, undefiled charming culture present there is a rare thing in the rich capitalist worlds.
Branding Srimongol, branding the tea We hope the brand gurus of the country will take measures to brand such locally unique products of Bangladesh. Why does it always have to be the case that our foreigner friends discover what we have and then we jump into the bandwagon of brand jargons et al.
Nice to know.. I feel it's pretty amazing that I am learning about my own city and country from a foreigner who has been there for only a few weeks.
I was born in Dhaka and stayed the first 18 years of my life before moving to US..I found your blog while randomly searching for Dhaka. It's nice to know that you have found things outside of the usual poverty that most foreigners pick on after going there..
Infact I am in Bangalore, India for work and have not even ventured out of the hotel over weekend, as I am scared of the awful traffic and crime. So it's hard to imagine a white girl roaming around freely in Dhaka!
Keep up your posts, hope to learn more interesting facts in future aswell..
Grand adventure I agree that you don't have to live in a ditch to justify writing a blog. Most of your friends are probably still living where they were born...you're out and about and that is worthy of writing about. By the way, I saw your profile and can say with confidence that you're from Manchester. When people ask where you're from, they don't mean 'Where have you been/lived?' They mean, 'Where are you from?' I'm from New York, though I've lived there fewer years than most other places I've lived.
It's a really good test book for me to learn how to introduce Mahjong to others in English.
And u see,there are hundreds of ways to play MJ. I know the way u talked about. We call it "international Mahjong". And the one we play in Chengdu,is much easier for beginners.
The charactors on the bamboo,means "someone paid a visit here", which to show his arrival. It's bad ,right?! But why Chinese people like to do so? there was a stoy. Do u know that monkey, magic,all-round monkey. He used to write such words on Buhda's fingers. I couldn't say every Chinese but most, want to be that monkey fiied with magic. So...
hehe!
Fellow Dhaka travel blogger Hi Claire,
I teach with your mum at ISD and will also be going with you on the Sundarbans trip!
Great to read your blog and hear your take on it all!
See you on Friday (no pesky overnight bus for you!!)
Bec
blogger - doug_and_bec
re: food in Bangladesh well i was only there for 10 days, and i stayed with my parents, so i pretty much ate what my mum cooked and places we went out to dinner...i had a few experiences of local food and went round for dinner at some Bangladeshi friends of my parents..and the food is yummy, but then i already knew/expected that!
You know chinese well You know chinese well, it is not a easy thing , how you can do it. I think you must learned a lot in china. And wish you enjoy it along.
People ask me where I'm from..and I have to say 'everywhere'! I'm British born but I grew up in various places as well as the UK and continue to country-hop every chance I get. 6 different countries as a resident...I've travelled by plane, bus, train, taxi, ferry, speedboat, canoe, sedan chair, rickshaw, horse and elephant...my itchy feet and I are now in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania, teaching at IST.... full info
Pamela Eachus
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Valuable Insight
Thank you so much for posting this article about your journey! I'm going to be in Dhaka / Cox's Bazar for a week and have never been to India, so had no idea what to expect. Your honest review has really helped me! Still looking forward to my trip! Best, Pam