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Aarong: An excellent shop with a cause

by Saagar

Aarong has a series of outlets in Bangladesh (7 at the last count), and an export branch at the head office in Dhaka.Aarong carries a range of textiles and local craft, and most of it would come under the unbrella "gifts".Aarong is run by the world's largest NGO, BRAC, and their outlets feature production from their various projects in the country. No kidding, this is serious stuff! Beautiful clothing, jewellry, wood craft, local embroidery and the like. Of the shops I visited, I liked the boig one in Dhaka's Gulshan Tejgaon Link Road best. I bought a silk and cotton kurta, and some small gifts for them stranded at home. Very reasonable for a tourist's wallet, expensive by local standards, but then the surplus goes back to the development fiancing of BRAC.

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Jamdani sarees

by Rupanworld

Jamdani sarees of Bangladesh are famous. They are beautiful, generally light coloured fine sarees with single or multi coloured geometric or floral designs. When we went to Bangladesh, I remember, all the ladies of our 23 members team were busy doing lots of shopping of Jamdani sarees.

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Stationary shop at the Sonargaon Hotel: Good maps

by Saagar

In this shop in the foyer of the Sonargaon Hotel downtown Dhaka there is a decent range of books and also quite a few maps. Good maps are hard to come by in Bangladesh. The best is to bring in the Nelles' North-East India map and supplement with local and regional maps that you can get in this shop. At the Elephant Road markets I also found some good books and maps.For the intrepid and very eager traveller I can recommend a home-made Bangladeshi atlas, mainly made for educational purposes. It's called Graphosman World Atlas, published by Graphosman, 3/3-C Purana Paltan, Dhaka-100. The interesting thing about this Atlas is its thematic section on Bangladdesh that goes over 29 pages. Very useful if you want to learn more about the country. Tk 100,-

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Available all over Bangladesh: Longyi - a necessity

by Saagar

The men's most used attire in Bangladesh is the longyi. The longyi is a rectangular piece of woven cloth sewn together at the short end to form a tube. It is long enough to reach from the waist down to the ancles, and wide enough to go around the waist 1 1/2 times. A twisted knot is then tucked in in front to keep it from falling off. When travelling in Bangladesh this thing comes in very handy when going to the bathroom, changing clothes in a public space, as an emergency bed sheet, a cover against mosquitos, a cover when you sleep on buses, trains; milling about in the evening or morning, or on the beach.The longyi probably won't fit you well Bengali style if you're a faraway-foreigner, so for other less informal purposes use lightweight pants and other tropical gear (save the shorts).Longyis come in a variety of materials and vowen patterns - rarely printed. Mainly they are made...

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New market: Bangles and beads

by Saagar

Several stalls in the New market in Dhaka are devoted to ready-made and by-the-bead jewlery. You can look for something that you can wear immediately, but also compile yourself and have them string it up for you according to your wish. I bought some bangles and things for putting in the hair for my niece. Many colorful things and goodies for children here.

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Central Dhaka markets: Textile country

by Saagar

Lengths of cotton and silk are available at very good prices in Bangladesh. The best places to buy are in Dhaka's main markets and department stores.You can have your clothes made, too.Other good ready-mades are shawls scarves etc. According to quality and quality - in any case, modest, local prices.

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Cobblers' shops: Fix your shoes

by Saagar

Along busy streets and on street corners itinerant and established cobblers or shoe makers set up shop. If you need to fix your shoes, Dhaka's cobblers will do a good job cheaply and quickly.If you are struck in traffic you can have a quick shoe polish while you wait in your rickshaw for the jams to clear.

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Westecs Gulshan district of Dhaka;: Surplus production outlets

by Saagar

Given the huge textile production in Bangladesh, there is a significant surplus production over and beyond the order from abroad and B-sorting that remain in Bangladesh.This is sold through quality shops (Westecs ) and the fake stuff and B-sorting ends up in less formal textile markets in town, such as in the Banga Bazaar. You will find some genuinely good clothes here, of well-known brands. I buy my shirts here if I can - last time a whole stack of them of which I still have some unopened three years after. Very little compared to the price for the same back home if you live in the brand-name home country or thereabouts. Maybe as much as 10% of the price.

Elephant Road market: Something of everything needed?

by Saagar

This large, one-block market has absolutely everything you may or may not need. It is a fairly modern middle class consumers' market.Just a walk here is interesting. Nice jewelry Clothing itemsMusic CDs, tapesYou name it, they have it. Very cheap, except for such things as imported Samsonite suitcases (such as I was looking for...) and other high-end imported consumer goods.

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Aarong Handicraft: Men's silk kurtas

by Saagar

Aarong Handicrafts has three locations in Dhaka, and one in Chittagong.They have a wide variety of gift and clothing items, run by what seems to be a consortium of home producers and NGO procudtion initiatives with a pro-poor purpose. For men, the thing to buy, use in Bangladesh and to bring home, too, are silk kurtas of different cuts and patterns, needlework and colors. They are very good and look very nice. You will never use a Hawaii shirt after this.You also get Gandhi-style cotton homespuns and raw silk ones that are simpler, yet warmer. Cheap it isn't for Bangladesh, but if you are on a holiday in Bangladesh paid by yourself, you can afford this. It will not be beyond 40 dollars for the finest shirt/kurta you can imagine. And all the rest would be much cheaper.

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