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This is not really a danger if you're prepared for it. There're gonna be lots of financially challenged people asking for some money. It's your choice whether to give them or not. If you do, bear in mind that there're gonna be lots more coming right at ya and they will keep following you for as long as they can. Leave a Comment
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 One of frequent accidents on
Bangladeshi roads... by janchan
It can be quite dangerous, especially at night (most of the vehicles you may find on the roads are without regular lights), if you are not used to this way of driving.
Very few sure rules... drive on the left side if you can... and keep honking !! :) Leave a Comment
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Especially female travellers should dress very conservativde. Headcover is not necessary, but certainly no shorts or tops in public.
I noticed a young Scandinavian girl, sitting in a bus wearing bikinitop and tight shorts. She was not only asking for big trouble (fair enough), but also discredited all foreign travellers. Leave a Comment
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 Standard procedure by Saagar
Once speed has reached a certain level the most hairraising maneuvres are undertaken to manage to pass the vehicle in front for no particular reason - you're all in the same queue and jam. Pass on left or right, cut curves, squeeze inbetween opposite passing traffic - everything goes.
The highway between Chittagong and Dhaka is especially prone to accidents following this attitude.
Tell your driver to slow down.
Travelling on the highways is the absolutely most dangerous thing to do in Bangladesh. Leave a Comment
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 Malnourished child, CHT by Saagar
It may be useful to try to gain an understanding of reasons and roots of poverty in Bangladesh, and how it affects people. The best books I know about this topic is "Nectar in a Sieve" (from India) and the anthropological documentary book "A Quiet Violence" from Bangladesh (the latter is written by Hartmann & Boyce for Food First, Institute for Food and Development Policy, published by Zed Books, Avon 1988). Leave a Comment
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Small daypacks and handbags may easily be snatched by specialists on this in Dhaka (especially). Two on a motorbike or in a three-wheeler tempo, one stretching out as they pass close by, then weering back into the jam, is a classic.
Put on your daypack or strap it to your leg or rickshaw frame when you sit there. Have passport and card pouch and at least some cash stacked away into your belt or thereabouts. Leave a Comment
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Twice upon leaving Bangladesh for home I have been asked for bakshees (tip or bribe) by those who do the check-in at Zia International Airport's counters. Can you believe it????
Once I was told my luggage wouldn't arrive if I didn't pay. I asked immediately for the superviser and got a uniformed policeman's attention, and that helped - but I suspect both the supervisor and the cop were part of the scam. Leave a Comment
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 People pressure by Saagar
True, Bangladesh is not for the faint-hearted and claustrophobic. Nor is it a good idea to expect facilities and services for standard international tourism outside the main two-three cities. The food is also local indeed and beyond the cities Dhaka, Chittagong and Cox' Bazaar, the foreign food on offer boils down to Chinese and vague western copycat food - but not the taste to go with it. So the food and spices is a definite issue one needs to be able to cope with. Then the crowds - there is nowhere on earth humanity so tightly packed as in Dhaka. Nobody can tell for sure how many lives in Dhaka, but something around 11 million should be a good guess.
Poverty is rampant and structural, and you will witness this for yourself, and you need to be able to cope with this, too. Some people feel guilty and just cannot take it.
The language is a major problem, even if you know some English and can express yourself in tourist terms - the Bangla-English is very different, and your talking partner may never have spoken to somebody from outside the country before and find that you are speaking funnily. Not losing face is important in Bangladesh, too, so be prepared to be given wrong instructions with good intentions - nobody wants to tell you that stupid you, this is the wrong part of town; no, go in that direction and look.
All said, it is possible to overcome a tendency to have cultural shock, and thus to be able to enjoy thes interesting country on her own terms. Leave a Comment
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Hartal!
2001 has been the parliament election year in Bangladesh and political strikes called Hartals very frequent. If they will be also after the elections I am not sure, but check for Hartals before making too rigid plans, or you may find that all your plans fail. Leave a Comment
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